Luxury Viennese Palais Coburg Residenz wins World’s Best Wine List Award Palais Coburg Residenz in Austria took the top spot in The World of Fine Wine’s inaugural World’s Best Wine Lists. The Viennese hotel’s cellar boasts 60,000 bottles and a menu with 138 pages. “An extraordinary wine list for an extraordinary place, the cellar at … Read more
Qantas is still the world’s safest airline, topping the list of “Top ten safest airlines” compiled by AirlineRatings.com, the world’s only safety and product rating website. Top of the list is Qantas which has a fatality free record in the jet era (since 1951). Making up the top ten with seven stars for safety and … Read more
Green conscience: United Airlines, airberlin, Qantas top 2013 ATW Eco-airline award winners list. Over a decade ago “eco-aviation” was a barely known term. Now the industry focuses on overall sustainability, reducing carbon emissions, sustainable biofuel initiatives, recycling, and overcoming political hurdles within the air transport industry. Fuel-efficient fleet, reduced fuel burn or sustainable fuels have propelled … Read more
Dubai’s Burj Al Arab, Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney, Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Waldorf Astoria (New York), and Four Seasons Hotel George V Paris have emerged as the favorite hotels of the world among readers of Ultratravel luxury travel magazine published by The Daily Telegraph. Burj Al Arab, the standard bearer in the luxury industry, … Read more
Voted ‘Best Staff Service’ and ‘Best Airline’ in the Australia/Pacific Region at the 2012 Skytrax World Airline Awards, Virgin Australia wants to take on Qantas as the airline of choice for business-class passengers. Airline’s cabin crew will be trained in etiquette and gourmet appreciation, as all flight crew must attend a program called Elevate. It … Read more
Malaysia Airlines joins A380 club, with child-free deck and wider seats Malaysia Airlines become the eighth airline in the world to operate the Airbus A380 ‘superjumbo’. The first from six Airbus A380 will fly between Kuala Lumpur and London Heathrow. Malaysia Airlines joins the club of A380 operators, including Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Air France, Qantas, … Read more