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I'd assumed the flights would be fairly straightforward, with a well-established air miles system in place for most major airlines.

Airlines have coalesced into groups, each offering their own loyalty system. I have my heart set on flying to Bangkok with KLM

because Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport offers the best stopover experience, with free wi-fi, plentiful soft furnishings and a library.

But the Dutch airline is partnered to the Flying Blue group. So instead of KLM, I'd have to stump up nearly double the price for a direct flight with British airways,

or travel with one of the other members of Oneworld Alliance, such as Cathay pacific, which flies via Hong kong at three times the price of a KLM ticket.

My cash card jeers at me from my pocket. Three-nil to sterling. I also need to renew my passport.

It's a surprise to discover that Her Majesty's Passport Office is only too happy to comply with my unusual restrictions.

HMPO accepts postal orders a curious little throwback to the 18th century that has experienced lately a resurgence in popularity.

Â Airline manufacturers and carriers are all too well aware of these effects and are working to try to mitigate them."

withat least 15 Â airlines and several aircraft manufacturers performing flight tests with various blends Â containing up to 50%biofuel.

And, in 2011, KLM became the first airline to test it in regular commercial flights between Amsterdam

With so many apparent advantages, you might expect that every airline is beginning to draw up a plan to use these fuels.

Airline flight attendants seem to be able to discern the difference between mobile phones and personal computers in their in flight announcements,

Bedier hired executives from the banking and airline industries to help him design the platform.

We are the people who know airline flight attendants better than we know our own wives.#

And the success or failure of airlines today and in the future hinges on their ability to price tickets

#â Wave and Payâ##Mobile phone Payment System Launched in the UK Samsungs new phone is the first to use Barclaycard and Oranges Quick Tap payment technology.

Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new Quick Tap#payment technology.

#Two decades ago#after large companies like Alaska airlines, Union pacific and Turner Broadcasting adopted such policies#29 states and the District of columbia passed laws, with the strong backing of the tobacco

Airlines also keep humidity levels low now to prevent the plane s metal skin from corroding,

Japan airlines and Nippon Airlines bought the first crop of these new planes. They re currently in service between Tokyo and Boston. 12.

On Wednesday, Amyris announced another milestone#a memorandum of understanding with Brazil s largest low-cost airline, GOL Linhas Aereas, to begin using a jet fuel produced by yeast starting in 2014.

U s. airline passenger miles have leapt by a factor of 20; we drive, collectively, 250%more miles in more than twice as many vehicles;

the airline already knows if any maintenance is required and can expedite the process, saving time and money while decreasing the risk of engine issues in flight.

Once implemented, how will a technology like this affect the airline industry? 27. Genetically Engineered Athletes will engineered genetically designer babies,

(which later became famous as'Twas the Night Before Christmas). ) The poem is credited to Clement Clarke Moore an aristocratic academic who lived in New york city.

Foods that may pose a greater choking risk to children include those that are similar in shape to the child's airway (such as hot dogs) those that are difficult to chew (raw fruits

and couldn't clear her airway Fisher told Live Science. It was just a matter of minutes before she would have lost consciousness Fast-flowing river Khroma was also healthy

and the dependability of the fuel source could insulate airlines from spikes in fuel prices c

and increase inflammation of the airways in people who have asthma. Similarly people with sensitive sinuses can be irritated by pollens.

The researchers also discovered that the trees with thin layers of bark have lots of lenticular channels small airways that allow gas exchange between the bark and the outside air.

and congested airways that accompanies it. Hay fever or seasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis to give it its official name is caused

and sore eyes that make hay fever a misery In the longer term airways can become inflamed and blocked causing permanent nasal stuffiness snoring lack of sleep and susceptibility to infections and sinusitis.

Because the susceptible cells line the lower airways as well as the nose patients with hay fever and asthma often find that their asthma is worse during the pollen months

because histamine release in the airways causes them to constrict. This seasonal#or pollen#asthma can be quite severe.

and allows more pollens and other irritants into the airways which my make asthma more difficult to control.

The more intense flow tends to fence off cold Arctic air keeping incursions like last winter s Polar Vortex episodesfrom impacting the northern parts of the country.

The researchers used moderate-resolution satellite imagery as well as reports from ship captains and airline pilots to track a pumice raft from the Havre Seamount a submarine volcano in the southwest Pacific near New zealand.

In the meantime, other organizations, including the UK Royal Society and TWAS the academy of sciences for the developing world, based in Trieste,

People Developing world Romain Murenzi, a physicist and Rwanda's former science minister, was named on 7 february as the new executive director of TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world.

Murenzi is expected to take up the post at TWAS headquarters in Trieste, Italy, around April; he will replace Mohamed Hassan,

Airline carbon row Global airlines are protesting a European law that requires them to pay for some of the carbon emissions from their flights using European airports.

Last week, China's airlines said they would not pay the charges; US airlines have raised prices for European flights,

but the country's government is said to be looking at ways to counter the policy.

with airlines expected to buy permits covering 15%of their carbon dioxide emissions in 2012. First payments will not be collected until next year.

Chandrayaan-1. Primate transport Air china said on 31 Â July that it would stop shipments of nonhuman primates for research.

) PETA says that China Eastern is the only major airline now known to be flying primates out of China the country that last year transported more than 70%of the primates bound for US labs. See go. nature. com/ckhq93

Development boost Chinese President Hu Jintao announced a US$1. 5-million donation to TWAS, the academy of sciences of the developing world, on the opening day of the organization s 23rd

It replicated in the airways and lungs of three infected ferrets killing one and causing such severe disease in the others that they had to be euthanized.

and growing in human lung tissues and airway cells than the parental strain, and could still thrive

Emissions profits Airlines that fly to and from Europe may have profited by up to Â 1. 36 Â billion (US$1. 83 Â billion) last year by raising air fares to cover costs

and had given airlines some free emissions allowances. But it exempted intercontinental flights from the scheme for 2012,

enabling the airlines to achieve windfall profits. Coffee at risk Costa rica has declared a national coffee-growing emergency.

and THE WHO, have worked together in the past weeks to rapidly analyse airline-passenger data for China. The resulting maps and data may give an idea of where the zones of immediate highest risk worldwide might be.

that eastern China the epicentre of the current H7n9 outbreaks is one of the world's busiest hubs for airline traffic.

Primate carriers Vietnam Airlines said on 19 april that it will no longer transport primates used in research experiments, effective from 1 may.

The airline has been under pressure from animal-rights groups. It was one of the last major carriers to transport primates for research:

only Air france and Philippine Airlines say that they still do so. Air canada, United airlines and China Eastern announced that they would stop shipments in December, January and March respectively.

Animal activism Animal-rights activists occupied an animal facility at the University of Milan in Italy on 20 april.

They also may be more lethal in people depending on how the viruses bind to receptors in the human airway.

scientists say that it seems clear from the sequence that the novel virus has acquired key mutations that permit the H protein to latch onto receptors on mammalian cells in the airways instead of onto avian receptors.

which helps them to attach onto cells in the airways. The protein occurs in all types of flu,

Garver will become general manager at the Air line Pilots Association based in WASHINGTON DC. Misconduct finding A dermatology researcher at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,

Philippe MASCLET/Masterfilms/Airbusgiant ash cloud tests sensor for aircraft Sensors to detect volcanic ash have moved closer to widespread use on commercial airlines following flight tests involving the world s

) Easyjet, the UK airline carrier that helped to fund the experiment, announced on 13 Â November that it would mount the AVOID sensor on a number of its commercial jets by the end of next year.

Alan Wasser the Space Settlement Institute's chairman says that a private company should build a spaceline similar to an airline between the Earth and moon.

airlines model. That creates 1000 opportunities to shoot black carbon directly into the stratosphere. The amount of black carbon emitted during combustion On earth

or in the trophosphere where airlines fly tends to be low because of the relatively rich supply of oxygen.

We (mis) perceive the risk of airline travel because every airliner crash becomes a major international news story.

#Yesterday morning an Alitalia pilot reported seeing a remote-controlled aircraft near New york's JFK AIRPORT where he was landing.

and it came within just 200 feet of the Alitalia plane the pilot said. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident

In 2009 US AIRWAYS flight 1549 made a crash landing in the Hudson river after geese knocked out both engines.

In a world where people use 240000 plastic bags every 10 seconds where passengers on U s. airlines consume one million plastic cups every six hours where consumers in total discard

She presented her work at this year's TWAS General Meeting. Egamberdieva group leader at the National University of Uzbekistan at Tashkent has isolated salt-tolerant bacterial strains that live in salt-degraded soils where they help the rooting process in plants.

Egamberdieva has been invited to present her results at the TWAS's 24th General Meeting in Buenos aires where she has been awarded one of the TWAS Prizes.

TWAS The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries headquartered in Trieste Italy was founded by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam.

The above story is provided based on materials by TWAS the academy of sciences for the developing world.

These will help keep your hands clean and allergens from entering your airways. Wearing large sunglasses will keep pollen

Examples include the major media companies airlines government universities and others supplying the vast data that feed the Googles and Expedias of the world.

#3-D-printed splint saves infants lifehalf a millennium after Johannes Gutenberg printed the bible researchers printed a 3d splint that saved the life of an infant born with severe tracheobronchomalacia a birth defect that causes the airway

researchers to test 3d printed bioresorbable airway splints in porcine or pig animal models with severe life-threatening tracheobronchomalacia.

April and Bryan Gionfriddo believed their son's chance of survival was slim until Marc Nelson a doctor at Akron Children's Hospital in Ohio mentioned researchers from the University of Michigan were testing airway splints similar to those used in Wheeler's study.

The splint was sewn around Kaiba's airway to expand his collapsed bronchus and provide support for tissue growth.

Permafrost soils are warming even faster than Arctic air temperatures--as much as 2. 7 to 4. 5 degrees Fahrenheit (1. 5 to 2. 5 degrees Celsius) in just the past 30 years

and airways could vary based on the pollutants to which they're exposed Dr. Torres-Duque noted.

However additional emissions of flights are fully offset by the EU ETS even without buying the offsets offered by most airlines

inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness a characteristic of asthma. She hypothesized that they might have similar effects in humans.

The technology is a low-cost version of the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) systems that are a standard feature of most neonatal units in the developed world.

Borrowing the kiosk to create the same type of efficiency the airlines and banking industries use.

The kiosk is slated for a central location across from Gate 13 in the American airlines terminal.

Smithsonian tracks bird strikes for military, airline industrydr. Carla Dove using a comparison microscope to study feather structure in the Birds Division at the Museum of Natural history.

Commercial airlines report strikes on a voluntary basis; for the military, it mandatory. What we do know about strikes is that most happen at takeoff and landing, typically at the engine,

Dove and her team worked on the remains of the geese from the 2009 US AIRWAYS landing in the Hudson river.

Turns out it was remained all that from a Brazilian freetail bat from a Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento, a Boeing 737 that departed at dusk.

Southwest Airlines unveils first'green plane';'saves 9, 500 gallons of fuel per yearsouthwest Airlines has announced the world's first green plane, a Boeing 737-700 that's 472 lbs. lighter than a conventional model and saves

9, 500 gallons of jet fuel per year. It's no secret that the airplanes are some of the worst polluting transportation methods available.

According to Outside. com, airlines account for about two percent of all glacier-melting, polar bear-killing emissions released into our carbon-choked friendly skies.

That article cites Southwest as the leading U s. airline for carbon footprint awareness, and notes that the company spent $175 million to retrofit the navigation systems on its planes to calculate tighter flight paths

The absolute cheapest flight I ve been able to find is on LOT (Polish airlines) and has stops in Chicago and Warsaw,

Even if I have to fly LOT Airlines. Terrapass is a great website which allows you to calculate your carbon footprint and purchase carbon offsets,

That s more than the airline industry generates. With 2 billion more people expected to inhabit cities where tall buildings are jammed together for more housing in the next 20 years,

For example, one industry that has taken the lead in reducing paper consumption is the airline industry.

E-tickets have replaced quickly paper tickets for many airlines, including Delta and United. The concert industry has started also to use e-tickets,

Bamboo is the next wonder material Friends of Earth rain on Lufthansa biofuels parade Biofuels fly mainstream:

Lufthansa passenger flights taking off Airbus and Europe map jet biofuel goal Will the real biofuel Lindbergh please stand up?

Friends of Earth rains on Lufthansa biofuel paradefriends of the Earth today condemned Lufthansa s use of biofuels on commercial flights as greenwashing that makes an environmentally destructive practice appear eco-friendly.

Lufthansa is painting itself green with biofuels Ã¢â oe but these flights are anything

He issued his statement prior to the scheduled 11:15 a m. take off of Lufthansa flight LH013 from Hamburg-to-Frankfurt.

Lufthansa plans to use the fuel for 6 months on 8 daily trips between the two cities, for a total of 1200 flights.

Likewise, KLM-Air france plans to fly 200 regular flights between Amsterdam and Paris using biofuels in September.

Yesterday, Finnair announced that it plans to test biofuels on at least 3 passenger flights between Helsinki and Amsterdam.

Airlines say biofuels can shrink the industry s carbon footprint because they do not emit CO2 the way conventional hydrocarbon jet fuels Ã¢â oetypically kerosene-do.

Lufthansa says the 1200 flights will save 1500 tons o CO2. But Foe points out that jet biofuels can actually increase carbon emissions

With partial funding from the German government, Lufthansa has purchased 800 tons of blend from Finland s Neste Oil for the 6-month, Ã¢Â 6. 6 million biofuel program.

Foe claims that the jatropha in Neste s Lufthansa mix comes from Mozambique, and that it signals a land grab there and in other African countries.

Foe biofuel campaigner Kenneth Richter added that airlines overstate the environmental friendliness of jatropha. Although the crop can grow on degraded soil

By one estimate, jatropha would use up the equivalent of 35%of Germany s arable land to meet Lufthansa s 2025 biofuel target, Foe noted.

Lufthansa passenger flights taking off Airbus and Europe map jet biofuel goal Will the real biofuel Lindbergh please stand up

on an airline, tickets for the same trip start at $360. Smaller operators offering more deluxe accommodations, such as Limoliner, Lux Bus America and New york Shuttle also expanded service in 2011.

Scheduled airline departures shrank slightly in 2011 while passenger seat-miles increased a modest 1. 5 percent.

Airlines As ever, high oil prices hurt the airlines most of All the last time global oil prices were this high was in the first half of 2008,

when I detailed the carnage in the airline sector. By October of that year, when I heard airline industry expert Michael Boyd explain at an energy conference that every airline in the world is obsolete at $100 a barrel,

30 small carriers had gone bust. Now we are seeing the next tranche of air carriers being wiped out by intolerably high fuel prices.

Southwest Airlines, one of the few carriers who hedged their oil price risks properly in 2008

Air france-KLM reported a $1 billion loss for 2011, saying that it had not been able to offset the rising cost of jet fuel.

Australia's Qantas Airways reported last month that high fuel costs had halved its profit in the first half of 2011

Also this week, Israel's El al airlines announced higher fuel surcharges, eliminated its service to Brazil

and iced its plan to expand service to the U s. Of the six major airlines in India,

and the Indian airline industry as a whole is expected to realize a $2. 5 to $3 billion loss for the 2011 fiscal year.

South carolina-based public charter airline Direct Air suspended its operations yesterday without notice when it ran out of money to pay for fuel,

Unfortunately, there is little that the airlines can do to accommodate an era of permanently higher fuel prices, other than raising their own prices accordingly.

Trucking and delivery services Next to airlines, long-haul trucking companies are arguably the most vulnerable to fuel price shocks.

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