And, the world’s best airline is…
More than 18 million travelers have spoken, and they’ve voted Hong Kong’s flagship carrier CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS the world’s best airline!. Airline passengers from 160 countries participated in the annual Skytrax World Airline Awards and helped Cathay bump last year’s winner, Emirates, from the top spot. Cathay also took the title in 2003, 2005 and 2009. Emirates took a tumble to 4th place, coming in after QATAR AIRWAYS and SINGAPORE AIRLINES which came in second and third place respectively. Of note: The top 10 list is absent of any North American airlines and is dominated by Middle Eastern and Asian carriers. One reviewer on the Skytrax airline review forum gave […]
Explore the fake reef in Dubai
Dubai plans to open the Pearl of Dubai, an underwater theme park designed by the art team behind “Avatar” and the five “Pirates of the Caribbean” films. The theme park to be built by Reef Worlds is set to include scuba diving and snorkeling in a space modeled after the mythical Lost City of Atlantis. The Pearl of Dubai is being billed as the largest sustainable underwater tourism site as it will stretch across five acres off the city coast. The underwater attraction will be designed to excite the imagination with submerged ruins and references to a mythical, sunken empire. The artificial reef, to be built in shallow waters of […]