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From Wings to Wheels: Four Cars That Look Like Airplanes

The usual way of going about getting on a flight is to drive a car to the airport and then hop on a plane. Well, some airlines are hoping that cars will help you to get on airplanes in another way—through advertising. Of the top of our head, here's four airlines who've dabbled in painting up pairs of wheels to match planes:

American Airlines' London Taxi

The days of black London taxi cabs are nearly over as the cars become ad territory. The latest brand to smack their logo on cabs is American Airlines, in their big push to introduce both sides of the pond to their new 777-300ERs.

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New Route News from Emirates, American and Frontier

Sometimes it’s hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we’ve complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.

· Emirates:
It’s time for a brand new flight out of New York-JFK, as if they don’t enough nonstop flights anyway. We’re looking forward to what Emirates has to offer, as they’re getting ready to start up their only transatlantic service. It’s going to be a nonstop thing between JFK and Milan beginning on October 1, and if you’re interested the tickets are already up for grabs.

It’ll be Boeing 777-300ERs doing the flying, and the flight will continue on towards Dubai if you’re interested. Milan is great so snag some tickets, but just be sure to build in some time for a trip to Lake Como as well.

· SAS:
The weather is warming up, and that means it’s time to start planning that European getaway. Denmark just got a little bit closer to the United States, as Scandinavian Airlines—SAS to their pals—started nonstop flights between San Francisco and Copenhagen.

It’s the first ever nonstop connecting the San Francisco Bay Area with Copenhagen, and the plan is for the flights to run six times each and every week. So grab a cup of coffee, cram yourself into an economy seat, and a wienerbrød will be waiting for you.

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What You Should Know After Qantas and Emirates Hooked Up This Weekend

Photo: Bernard Proctor/Qantas & Emirates Facebook

Easter Sunday in Australia was not only filled with egg hunts and chocolate bunnies, but it was the launch of the official partnership between Qantas and Emirates. The day signified the first flights for each of the airlines under the new friendship, all commemorated by each airline sending an Airbus A380 to buzz over Sydney Harbour at around 1,500 feet.

Alliances like this one are becoming a bit more commonplace in the industry, and they're pretty passenger-friendly in terms of more options for flying around the globe and for racking up frequent flyer miles.

Here are the immediate benefits of the Qantas-Emirates partnership for you:

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Your Chance to Get Naked on an A380 May Be Threatened

One of the craziest things you can do—at least legally—at 35,000 feet is to strip down to your birthday suit and take an in-flight shower. We’re not talking about a quick refresh in the airplane lavatory with a first class amenity kit, but we actually mean hot water, soap, and shampoo while on an airplane. Right now it’s only available to first class flyers aboard Emirates' A380 flights, but if Emirates gets their way there might just be a few less in-flight showers moving forward.

It sounds like Emirates is considering what a lot of carriers have already done, and shifting some of their planes to just a two-class configuration. That means just business and economy, no first class. The plan is to cram more seats into the oversized airplane, and more seats means more money. We’re hardly airline industry economists, but it’s pretty clear how this new move would benefit Emirates in a good way.

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Hop an Airbus A380 for a One-Time-Only Flight to Mauritius

If you’re feeling a little chilly this week may we suggest catching a flight to somewhere warmer? Forget Florida and cancel the Caribbean, as we’re all about heading over to Mauritius. Sure, it's on the other side of the world, but thanks to a special flight from Emirates things just got a little more convenient—and spacious.

Emirates already does the flying fun back and forth between Mauritius and Dubai, but they’re upgrading the aircraft flying to the island nation for one day, to celebrate the spot’s 45th anniversary of independence.

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Who's the Biggest, Baddest (Airline) of Them All?

Well, it's not official-official, but at the rate the UAE carrier is going, 2013 will be the year that Delta will slide down to the 3rd spot in the list of the world's largest airlines. Now that 2012 is over, the stats have been released which now rank the carriers around the globe, plus some other interesting numbers. Here is the 2012 round-up of the new data coming out of the travel industry:

Top 5 Airlines: (measured in available seat kilometers)
1. United — 6,149,398,758 — No surprise after a merger with Continental.
2. Delta — 5,643,676,049 — Again, with help from the Northwest merger.
3. Emirates — 4,992,911,535 — Not too far behind with a 18% year over year growth
4. American — 4,800,884,481 — Just 4 years ago it was largest, now sliding down to 4th.
5. Southwest — 3,276,525,770 — The only LCC in the top five is quite the accomplishment.

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The Partnership Between Qantas and Emirates Clears First Hurdle

Ignore the obviously photoshopped A380 above

Way back in September, we briefly talked about a huge airline partnership between Qantas and Emirates. Back then the deal was still in its infancy and only the proposed benefits were released and, of course, the entire project was waiting for the respective Governments to approve the coupling.

Just today the first major hurdle was cleared. The ACCC, the Aussie Government office that wants to make sure there is due competition in the market, has given their initial thumbs-up for the partnership. Now, the two airlines can move forward with some mutual love. Furthermore, Emirates' CEO clarified the reason for this whole joint partnership, saying, "We don't want to enter a global alliance".

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Emirates' Crew Will Take Their Tablets Just as the Doctor Ordered

Initially it was just passengers getting access to in-flight entertainment in the form of all those tablet devices, but slowly we’ve seen the technology find its way into the hands of cabin crews as well. From pilots to flight attendants it seems like everyone is getting in on the touch-screen fun, and now it looks like another airline is doing the same.

Emirates has just plunked down a chunk of change for a whole bunch of HP ElitePad 900 tablets. These will be powered by Windows 8 and should be arriving up in the air at sometime in January—they’re kind of like on backorder. The airline says that the new tablets will be loaded up with what they call KIS—or Knowledge Driven In-Flight Services. This provides all kinds of tidbits of information based on the airline, on the flights, the passengers, and pretty much everything else.

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Call Me, Maybe? Now You Can from an Emirates A380

Now you can talk for as long as your cell phone battery will allow on your next long-haul flight with Emirates. The airline just announced the technology to allow passengers to use their mobile phone to make and receive calls while 38,000 feet up in their A380s. This is just another notch in the belt for the airline after being the first to offer passengers satellite phones in 1993. Remember those?

The first super jumbo equipped with the technology took off last week with at least one passenger using the service to call home on a flight from Dubai to Munich. It seems like all went well because the technology will be offered on all A380 jets the airline takes delivery of and they'll even retrofit the remaining 24 aircraft. Best of all, typical roaming charges apply and there's no additional charge if your provider has an agreement with OnAir or AeroMobile, the providers of the service.

We have a feeling that the phone bill will be a shocker enough.

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Global Turmoil Hitting Travel Industry in...Actually, Pretty Much Everywhere

It's an unfortunate fact of life that sometimes politics impacts travel. It's an even more unfortunate fact of life that sometimes politics impacts travel so much that we have to write about it on a Friday afternoon instead of easing you into the weekend with baby animal pictures. And yet here we are, with flights being emptied or cancelled across three continents because of a variety of geopolitical flare-ups.

The most dramatic bit of travel politics comes out of Japan, where no less than 40,000 seat reservations to China have been canceled. China has been on a bit of a tear recently, claiming a bunch of islands that by and large aren't straightforwardly quite theirs. The campaign has put them on a collision course with various other countries in the region (obviously) and one of those countries is Japan. There have been anti-Japan protests in China and, apparently, lots of Japanese people are sufficiently pissed off to cancel vacations to China.

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New Routes Arriving This Week from United, Frontier, Emirates and More

Sometimes it’s hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we’ve complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.

· Spirit Airlines:
Just the other day—as in yesterday—Spirit Airlines was celebrating yet another new route, as they continue to build quite the following in and out of Dallas-Ft. Worth. This week they’re flying a short distance from DFW right over to Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport. The plan is to head back and forth a couple times per day. We guess the response for these flights has been strong, as the airline is already looking to expand to and from Houston as well. Starting on October 4 they’ll be linking the city to both Chicago and Las Vegas. Again, when it comes to Spirit just watch those fees—flyer beware.

· United:
Obviously we’d prefer to talk about United’s plans to span the globe with a new long-haul route, but we’ve got enough new route love to go around—even for a few regional flights. The new flights will do their thing out of the airline’s hub over in Cleveland, as the plan is to link the city with both Nashville and Oklahoma City. All the flying fun will take place thanks to a little help from some 50-seaters operated by the folks over at ExpressJet. Nashville’s daily flights start up on December 19, but you’ll have to wait until Valentine’s Day of 2013 in order to take advantage of the new daily flights over to OKC.

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Duty-Free Shopping Must-Haves: Ways To Ease Your Arrival

If you're anything like us, you probably think that the in-flight duty-free shopping catalog can eat up a good chunk of time on long-haul international flights and provide a few giggles or unique gift ideas. This week, we'll dive into the pages of some favorite airline shopping magazines and highlight our picks for the just-can't-live-without items.

Today, we bring you our recommendations from in-flight catalogs around the world that ease the pressures of traveling to a new land. No matter how many times you get your passport stamped, it is just a little stressful waiting in immigration lines, collecting luggage and getting to your hotel as quickly as possible. Some airlines will help you relieve some of the stress and all you need is a quick browse of their duty-free magazine.

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