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John Terry catches cheap flight with fans

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John Terry stunned fans when he joined them for a budget flight from Basel to Gatwick. The Chelsea defender was in Switzerland with the rest of the team for the London club's penultimate Cham ...

KLM takes Twitter service to next level

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KLM has taken its customer service to the next level on Twitter by updating passengers on the waiting time for a response. The Dutch Airline offers the information by changing its background pict ...

Book flights to Brazil now, footy fans urged

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Football fans hoping to attend the World Cup in Brazil next year are being urged to buy their tickets now, with a price surge anticipated once the draw for the group stage games has been made next wee ...

AirAsia named World's Leading Low-Cost Airline

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AirAsia has been named the World's Leading Low-Cost Airline at the World Travel Awards. The Malaysian airline beat eight other competitors, including the winner from the past two years, easyJ ...

Air New Zealand unveils Hobbit plane

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Air New Zealand has celebrated the new The Hobbit film by unveiling a Boeing 777 complete with a 54m-long livery of the dragon Smaug, who is one of the movie's central characters.The plane bearing ...

New Airbus plane in factory flypast

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The new Airbus A350 plane swooped over the Filton factory where it was designed and developed in a spectacular flypast. Workers at the site near Bristol cheered as they watched their A350 XWB cre ...

Etihad cleans up at awards ceremony

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Etihad Airways has taken top honours at the World Travel Awards for the fifth year in a row. The flag carrier for the United Arab Emirates was again named World's Leading Airline, as well as ...

Security portals installed at two US airports

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Security portals designed to stop people entering secure areas have been unveiled at two regional airports in the USA. The unmanned exits at Syracuse and Atlantic City act like an airlock, with p ...

World waiting for cup draw

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Football fans around the globe are waiting expectantly for the World Cup draw, which is taking place on Friday (6 December). For those hoping to catch cheap flights to Brazil to watch their favou ...

More UK airports to get security scanners

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The government has ordered 11 more UK airports to install security scanners, which are currently in use at ten of the country's largest facilities.Last month, transport secretary Patrick McLoughli ...

Nike releases new Brazil advert

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Nike has released its new World Cup football advertisement ahead of next year's competition in Brazil. The sports manufacturer previously won huge acclaim for its airport lounge kickabout lau ...

Georgia airport named World's Wackiest

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The Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in Georgia in the USA has been named the World's Wackiest.Fox News gave the airport the unconventional honour thanks to its pair of grave makers in t ...

Cape Town named Best City

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Cape Town has been named Best City 2013 at the Telegraph Travel Awards for the second year in a row.The South African city was chosen by the newspaper's readers ahead of Vancouver in Canada and Ve ...

Building underwater hotels 'not a problem'

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Building accommodation underwater is 'not a problem', according to the company behind a new Water Discus hotel. Robert Bursiewicz, a project manager at Deep Ocean Technology, told the BBC ...

Imperial War Museum to mark WW1 from July

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From next July, visitors to the Imperial War Museum in London will be able to explore new galleries to mark the centenary of the First World War, which began in 1914 and ended in 1918. Exhibits s ...

Experience the Viareggio Carnival in 2014

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If you're planning a spring getaway, why not book flights to Tuscany to experience the wonders of the Viareggio Carnival? This wildly colourful event has been celebrated for more than 140 yea ...

Travel Facebook's hot topic

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Although it might seem like your Facebook wall is plastered with your friends' baby photos, a new study has revealed that travel is by far and away the most popular topic on the social network.Fac ...

Study proves worth of ski helmets

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New data from the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) should settle the issue of whether it's worth wearing a ski helmet on the slopes once and for all. Its study found that a helmet reduces ...

Hungry elephants walk through hotel reception

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Every October and November at Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia, the hotel's guests are joined by some unusual visitors - a herd of elephants. In what has become something of a tradition at the safari lo ...

More people visiting Greece

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Greece benefitted from a 21.5% jump in visitors in October to 847,000, up from 697,000 arrivals in October 2012. According to SETE (The Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises), this has helped ...
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