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Aisle seats offer best chance of survival in plane crash

Here is cool but unsettling diagram of a commercial airliner showing your chances of survival depending on where you’re sitting during a crash. When I fly commercial I make it my duty to sit in the seats near the emergency exits in the aisle; be one of the first out of the plane and more [...]
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Air France auctioning off seats on its first A380 flights

Lifestyle / Travel : L.A. Times Daily Travel Deal (4 years ago)

If you’re determined to be the first to fly on Air France’s cool new Airbus A380, the world’s biggest passenger plane, here’s your big chance: You can bid for a seat. Starting today, the French airline began auctioning off seats on ... Read Post

Now families are paying to sit together on planes

Lifestyle / Travel : Gulliver (12 months ago)

AIRLINES are increasingly charging to let passengers reserve window and aisle seats, leaving families stuck paying extra to sit together. This is good news for some business travellers—some of the extra-fee seats are being handed ou... Read Post

Safest Seat on an Airplane

Odd : Truemors (5 years ago)

Attention paranoid fliers: if you want to survive a crash, sit on the aisle near an emergency exit. The results of a study commissioned by the Civil Aviation Authority reveals that passengers sitting more than six rows from an exit ... Read Post


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