No — a lightning strike is almost never dangerous to a modern plane. Aircraft are deliberately built to be struck: the metal skin acts like a Faraday cage, carrying the current around the outside and away from passengers, fuel and avionics. On average each airliner is hit roughly once a year, you may just see […]
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Mostly, but it depends on the source. Tea and coffee made from heated onboard water are generally fine for healthy travellers, because heating adds a pasteurising effect. The onboard tank water itself varies by aircraft and airline, so many crews and frequent flyers prefer sealed bottled or cup water for cold drinking, and the lavatory
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Airlines split each flight’s seats into several price tiers, called fare buckets. The cheapest sell first; as a bucket sells out it closes and a pricier one opens. Revenue-management software keeps re-pricing every flight off live demand, booking pace, seats remaining, days to departure and rival fares — which is why the same seat costs
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Your plane pulled up and climbed away during landing because the pilots performed a go-around — a normal, safe, fully trained manoeuvre, not an emergency. They do it when the approach is not stable, the runway is not clear, traffic spacing or wind needs it, or Air Traffic Control instructs them. The aircraft simply climbs,
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There is no single Indian aviation rule that sets a fixed number of days you must wait after surgery before flying. For ordinary passengers, fitness to fly is decided case by case by your treating surgeon and the airline’s own medical desk — not by Indian law. So the real answer is: fly when your
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The single letter on your ticket — Y, M, B, J, C or F — is your RBD (Reservation Booking Designator), also called the fare class or booking class. It is not your cabin. It is the exact price-and-rules bucket you bought inside that cabin, and it decides your refund rules, change fees, baggage, miles
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Yes. A commercial twin-engine airliner can fly and land safely on a single engine — it’s a core certification rule, not luck. Before any twinjet carries passengers, the maker must prove to regulators it can continue a take-off after an engine fails, climb away, cruise lower and land on one engine. An engine quitting is
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Food tastes bland on a plane because the cabin holds thinner, drier air than at sea level, and that dryness blunts your sense of smell. Combined with very dry air and loud engine noise, studies have found your sensitivity to sweet and salty flavours can drop by around 30%. Since most of what we call
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To stop feeling sick on a flight, calm the conflict between your inner ear and your eyes. Pick a seat near the wings (the smoothest part of the plane), aim the overhead air vent at your face, look out the window at the horizon when you can, keep your head still with your eyes closed,
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Airplane windows have rounded corners instead of square ones because sharp corners concentrate stress. A pressurised cabin inflates and deflates on every flight, and at a sharp corner that repeated fatigue stress peaks dangerously. Rounding the corner spreads the load and lowers the peak stress, so every modern airliner uses windows with rounded corners. Updated
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