Safety

Luggage-grabbing flyers ignore safety pleas

Flames of burning jet fuel licked the side of American Airlines Flight 383 after it screeched to ...

Are backward-facing seats safer?

Only a few airlines have rearwards-facing seats in business class – BA and United are the m...

Five things airlines don't say in the safety demo

It's easy to zone out during the safety announcement — especially if you're a very fre...

World's safest airlines

Qantas was once considered the world's safest airline. We know this because Dustin Hoffman's sava...

5 travel tips you should ignore

Business travellers get a lot of advice from company policies, guidebooks and websites. But some ...

How to survive a plane crash..

British Airways is about to take those tedious and often-ignored pre-flight safety demonstrations...

The world's 10 safest airlines

In brief: The European-based Air Transport Rating Agency (ATRA) has released its list of the worl...

New travel alert iPhone app

Frequent flyers have another way to check up-to-the-minute travel safety advice with the new Smar...

Rolls-Royce at fault for

Australia's ATSB air safety regulator has released an interim report that blames engine manufactu...

AF 447 cockpit voice recorder locat

The "black box" cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from Air France 447 -- the Airbus A330 that disappea...

DFAT bin Laden safety and security advice

Government security agencies and foreign ministries around the world are ramping up their safety ...

Flight data recorder from Air France 447 found

The flight data recorder from the wreckage of Air France 447 has finally been recovered, almost t...

SIA's business class seats get safety waiver

Australians could be seeing more of Singapore Airlines' Airbus A380, which already flies on route...

Air NZ to check entire Boeing 737 fleet

Air New Zealand is checking its entire fleet of fifteen Boeing 737-300 aircraft following the exp...

Four Qantas 737s aircraft grounded for checks

Qantas has been forced to ground four of its Boeing 737-400 jets in response to the emergency lan...

Air France 447 wreckage found

A large amount of wreckage from Air France 447 has been discovered, 4 km under water on the ocean...

Qantas and Air NZ 737 safety: should you worry?

This weekend, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 was involved in an explosive decompression inci...

Is it safe to travel to Japan during April?

Travellers with trips booked to Japan during April are now asking the question: is it safe to tra...