Indie travel magazine Boat has released a new video on the spirit on Reykjavik to herald its new issue on the city. Boat magazine dedicates each issue to a new city, setting up shop there to really get a feel for what's going on. This Icelandic issue shows there's more to the city's music culture than just Bjork, a photo series on strongmen, a meeting with a feminist … [Read more...]
It’s always odd looking at cities you know well through the eyes of others. But it perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise how the world is choosing to view Glasgow: industrial city rediscovers itself. It’s something we’re going to have to get used to over the next eight months, as Glasgow nears the start of the Commonwealth Games in July. This thought occurred to me when reading … [Read more...]
We can’t have been the only people to roll their eyes at Michael O’Leary’s announcement that Ryanair was going to sort out its website and customer service. The airline has a history of publicity-grabbing releases that turn out to mean nothing. Standing flights, anyone? (Hell, that one was so good it was announced at least twice.) Well prepare to be surprised, because the … [Read more...]
Passengers will be able to fly to 12 new routes from Stansted with Ryanair from April. The new routes take in Basel, Bordeaux, Brive, Bucharest, Comiso, Dortmund, Lisbon, Osijek, Podgorica, Prague, Rabat and Skelleftea. The airline says that the new routes, combined with more flights on an extra 17 routes, will bring 1,300 jobs to Stansted and move 1.3m … [Read more...]
A campaign to support Airbnb to continue operating in New York City has now attracted over 200,000 supporters. It has now set a target of 250,000 supporters on its petition to the New York Senate. The campaign was started by a New York host on the sharing economy support site Peers, and was later emailed around Airbnb's membership by the site's management. However, the … [Read more...]