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A form of travel in vehicles such as airplanes, helicopters, air balloons and so on.

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A form of travel in vehicles such as airplanes, helicopters and so on. For questions about any types of air travel. For questions relating to mechanical details of planes, our sister site Aviation, can assist you better.

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What section of an airplane offers the smoothest ride?

I know in a bus, for instance, (well, at least on a school bus, when I traveled to out-of-town basketball games in high school) the farther back you are, the bumpier your ride tends to be. Is there a similar situation when a vehicle is airborne? For…
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Is it safe to charge my laptop in an airplane?

I will be travelling on several long flights very soon. I want to use my laptop during the flight, in flight mode of course. Several flights have ports to charge devices. I have heard that the source often fluctuates during the course of the flight,…
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How to know where a plane was during the past several days?

In the news there is this figure in which they show where EgyptAir plane was over the past 24 hours. Is it possible for ordinary people to do something similar for other flights before booking the flight?
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My seatmate needs to get up every 15 mins. What ought the cabin crew do?

For an Air Canada ("AC") flight, my grandma booked the aisle seat in a column with 2-seat configuration in Economy class. Her only seatmate kept getting up every 15 mins. This is too inconvenient for my grandma, who was hoping to nap. So she tried…
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Is there a way to find/track my plane's previous flight?

My current flight has been delayed 9 hours and the plane is nowhere in sight. The airline gives no information besides pushing back the departure date every few hours. Is there an easy way to determine which flight should be arriving that's delayed…
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Rules about listening to music, games or movies without headphones in airplanes

Somehow this is becoming the new annoying trend. Or, maybe, it's just me who is becoming more sensitive to it each year. But is it allowed to listen to audio through loudspeaker from phones, tablets or laptops in a flight? Do some airlines (I wonder…
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Omitted from flight manifest

I was recently on a flight and the seat I paid for was changed. I was travelling with an elderly person and we were not sitting together. When I requested to sit next to this individual who was pre-boarded, we were given seats together however when…
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How can I make sure I never board an airplane made by a particular manufacturer?

After watching a video on how a major aircraft manufacturer builds their planes, I am considering avoiding flying on them. I usually fly between Austria and northern Germany. If I wanted to never board certain types of aircraft on those routes, how…
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Obese guy first time flying

i'm flying from Frankfurt to Seattle(condor airlines - Boeing 767-300 economy class) in few weeks for the first time, and the seat width in the plane is 17 inches,while my width is around 19 inches, will there be any problems ?
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How to identify international flights likely to have fewer passengers

I've flown long-distance internationally a few times. Some of those flights have been practically full, while others I've had three seats to myself to lay down and sleep throughout the journey. I've found this can be the difference between a…
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Why is a nonstop flight sometimes more expensive than multiple connections?

Usually I find a flight I like that uses one or more connections with the same or different companies. In these cases, if the distance between the first and the second connection is not too large, I prefer to go by bus or train and then take the…
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What are possible reasons for this strange flight pattern?

Recently, I was on a flight from Montreal to Vancouver. We were somewhere between Calgary and Vancouver when we started to fly strange manoeuvres: The whole flight can be seen on FlightAware. We were definitively not yet approaching Vancouver…
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Where do you go once leaving the plane? Are there signs and so forth?

I will be going on holiday soon and I was wondering what happens when you leave the plane. Is it a sense of following the crowd? Do bus services take you to the terminal from the plane? What is the process? Also on a side note is it true that some…
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How to tell if I am required to deplane at a hidden city airport which is not my destination?

Recently I flew from London Heathrow to Auckland via Dubai with Emirates - the ticket as booked was a direct flight from Heathrow to Dubai, a short layover at Dubai, and then a flight from Dubai to Auckland which was advertised as "2 stops" but no…
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How fast do the typical domestic travel jets (737, A320 family) actually go?

I kind of always assumed that jets like the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 family travelled at their manufacturer's listed "cruising speed", because the manufacturer describes that speed as the speed at which it is "most economical" to fly…
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