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How we buy plane tickets and why it's ruining air travel - FlightCaster

Cheap flights from Jetstar, Tiger Airways, Air Asia, Virgin Blue, V Australia, Qantas, JetBlue, Virgin America, EvaAir and more
Similar to kayak, but supports/prefers natural language searches. Australian/Asian focus.

The Circular Letter of Credit
page explaining letters of credit, the means by which travellers were able to withdraw money in foreign countries before the advent of credit cards and atms, etc. the chief means of forgery detections seems to have been the signature.

RETAIL FACILITY - Jetlag
digital alarm clock with two displays to show both the current time and the alarm time.

Six Tips for Introverted Travelers - Features - World Hum

Ask the pilot | Salon Technology
"One thing, though: Try not to comment on the smoothness of the landing. For one thing, you can never be sure which pilot actually performed the landing, and passengers' interpretations of what constitutes a good or bad one aren't always accurate. Remember that certain touchdowns are intentionally firm (on short runways or in times of low-level gusts or turbulence) or slightly askew (crosswinds)."

Baggage X-ray Scanning Effects on Film

SHIFT | CITY GUIDE | LONDON

Cheap Flights, Hotels, and Rental Cars -- Discount Airfare | Priceline.com

Mobissimo Travel | Cheap Airline Tickets, Discount Hotels, Discount Cars - Ultimate Travel Search Engine

Listen to Live Air Traffic Control Communications | LiveATC.net

Cheap Airline Tickets, Cheap Flights And Discount Airfares

TripIt | Organize your travel
forward it confirmation emails, it assembles itinerary for you, produces iCal feeds, etc.

Transport Direct - Britain's free online journey planner

Cheap flights - low cost and budget airline specialist in Europe & Australasia

Yapta - What is Yapta?

Filson
clothes, accessories from american fly-fishing company (?)

Commune by the Great Wall

Narrowboat holiday hire firms

Europe's low cost flights search & booking engine
choose an airport, tells you where you can get to from there, and what airlines fly the route

Airport Codes: The ABC's A History and Explanation

kayak

ITA Software: Welcome
good site to get air ticket prices (but not bookings)

GPS data point logging kit
writes out gps data every second to sd card! i want this!

Capsule Inn Akihabara | hotel rooms in Tokyo Japan | unique accommodations

Welcome to SeatGuru! Your Guide to Airplane Seats and In-flight Amenities

Lisbon Lights Up : Condé Nast Traveler on Concierge.com

The Atlas of Fiction

ebookers - Cheap Flights, Hotels, Airline Tickets, Car Hire & Holiday Packages

Cheap Flights - Compare prices on cheap flights

Priceline - More hotels, more reviews and more deals so you can look and book for less

alpharooms.com: discount hotels and hotel reservations in Majorca, Tenerife, European and US Cities. Alpha Rooms, alfa rooms, alfrarooms, for hotels worldwide.

Six New (and Affordable) Boutique Hotels in New York - NYTimes.com

What Israel can teach us about security - thestar.com
'"Israelis, unlike Canadians and Americans, don't take s--- from anybody. When the security agency in Israel (the ISA) started to tighten security and we had to wait in line for – not for hours – but 30 or 40 minutes, all hell broke loose here. We said, `We're not going to do this. You're going to find a way that will take care of security without touching the efficiency of the airport.'"'

Cheap flights: Find and compare prices for airlines tickets.

Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt, Not Emissions - NYTimes.com

Confessions of an Introverted Traveler - Features - World Hum

Disaggregating fare aggregators 2009: Which airfare comparison sites are the best? | Upgrade: Travel Better

Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Specials - Global Deals - London (Heathrow)

Behind the Fiendish Complexities of Airfare Pricing

Cheap and Chic Hotels in Paris - Travel - New York Times

Find Airfare to Europe, Airline Tickets to Europe, and More | Travelzoo

For Curious Japanese, Nibbles of Foreign Cultures - New York Times

Telegraph | Travel | My kind of town: Lisbon

Aircraft emissions | The sky's the limit | Economist.com