Breaking news: A very different kind of airline high jacking at Heathrow.
Travel
Feeling iffy by the Liffey
Oh what great craic this travel life is, sitting isolated in a foreign hotel room shoving cotton buds up one’s nostrils.
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Airports
Celtic rays and Camouflaged peas
I didn’t mind the price but I did question the value. The peas were about as freshly minted as a 1930s coin, more the colour of army camouflage gear than the bright, fresh-picked green of the menu photo.
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Food
A chance encounter with a great airport food pioneer
When the definitive history of airport dining is written, the breakthrough influence of the original Caviar House Seafood Bar at Heathrow may be viewed as the seminal moment that food quality and consumer satisfaction first got a look in.
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Airports
In praise of Heathrow queues
Why should a wonderfully innovative product such as IQOS, which aims to convert cigarette smokers to a much safer alternative, have to be locked away in this dungeon?
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Travel
From doomsday to Bloomsday
Our Bloomsday story offered a welcome change in tone and voice from the travel headlines that seem to dominate the mainstream media here.
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Travel
Pontardawe, centre of the travel retail universe
My immigration experience at Heathrow was ghastly. You could almost smell the COVID in the packed, putrid, largely maskless environment.
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Travel
Buzz flight year to the rescue
There is a buzz in the air and unlike my favourite character from Toy Story this buzz will not crash to earth.
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People
Meeting a modern-day hero of Vietnam
When he returned to the Vietnam embassy in Manila the senior official hugged him and said, “Hahn, you are a hero of our country.” Both men cried with the emotion and the sheer significance of the moment.
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Travel
Feeling the high-octane energy in Ho Chi Minh City
The country may have been through two brutally tough years but as with newly established IPP Air Cargo it’s almost take-off time following the lifting of travel restrictions.
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Travel
Seeing old friends in Dubai and making new ones in Ho Chi Minh City
Hoardings like this are a symbol of aviation and tourism recovery and I can tell you that Vietnam will be right up there among the leaders of that revival.
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Airports
Why regeneration more than sustainability underpins key Saudi giga-projects
“The features of the destination are a magnificent archipelago of 90 pristine islands and the beauty of it is that it’s never been touched.”
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People
Readers’ contest: Help Sunil banish the BA.2.12.1 blues
Take one boiled egg (remember to discard the shell) and insert into the Prosecco rosé (gently please, it does not require Magnum Force)