The Seven Stars in Kyushu is a luxury sleeper train which winds its way through one of Japan‘s four main islands, but the exclusive experience is enjoyed by only 20 passengers at a time. Seven carriages long, the train includes a lounge
Ground handling staff at the Spanish airline Iberia have begun a strike resulting in the cancellation of hundreds of flights. The industrial action is said to be impacting 444 flights and over 45,000 travellers. It comes after negotiations between the Iberia group
China has launched its very first self-constructed large cruise ship, in what is being heralded as a major show of engineering strength. The country now has the “three pearls” of ship building: aircraft carriers, large liquefied natural gas carriers, and large cruise
A woman wielding a knife injured four passengers on a train in Akihabara, Tokyo on Wednesday night. At least three stabbed men were hospitalized, and their current conditions are unknown. Japan rarely experiences violent crimes, but recent years have seen high-profile incidents
A British Airways crew member tragically died in front of passengers on a flight preparing to depart from London Heathrow. The 52-year-old is believed to have collapsed while on duty as the plane was about to take off for Hong Kong. Despite
Travel chaos struck Birmingham Airport today after the pilot and crew for a flight to Doha got stuck in a lift for more than three hours. The 7.45am Qatar Airways flight to the Quatari capital was unable to take off while firefighters
A passenger on a Japan Airlines flight described the harrowing moments when the plane he was riding on collided with a Japanese coast guard aircraft on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday, causing the passenger jet to erupt into flames.
Passengers desperate to celebrate New Year’s in Paris were scrambling for tickets to France after Eurostar cancelled all of its services due to floods hitting a major tunnel connecting Britain to Europe. Unfortunately for revellers, plane tickets between London and Paris have
Passengers were left “screaming and throwing up” after their plane was hit with turbulence as Storm Pia wreaks havoc in the UK. An easyJet plane was forced to divert from Gatwick to Luton after 113mph gales and torrential rain battered parts of
Plane passengers were horrified as they flew over an erupting volcano, which comes after weeks of intense earthquakes and tremors in Iceland. The eruption broke out on the Reykjanes peninsula of south-west Iceland and over 4,000 people have been evacuated from Grindavik