Michael Gebicki

Michael Gebicki

Sydney-based writer and photographer, Michael Gebicki has been writing travel articles since 1982 and is Traveller's resident Tripologist.

Cathay Pacific recently became the first airline to bring the A350-1000 to Australia.

The airlines flying the most cutting-edge planes to Australia

Most flyers love a shiny new aircraft type, and the latest to be seen in our skies are the Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing's 787-10 Dreamliner.

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Athens skyline panorama with Acropolis in Greece from peak Lycabettus at night The world's top 10 places that are better ...

The world's top 10 places that are better at night

Some attractions come into their own at night.

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Why you might not want to fly budget airlines in Europe

There are some great deals but typically also a great many strings.

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Fragment of the Parthenon, an archaic temple located on the Acropolis of Athens, built in 438 BC. Taken in Athens, Greece.

What was the world's first travel guidebook?

There's a good reason why the world's first guide book doesn't recommend places to stay - there weren't any.

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Are pay-for-use lounges worth the money?

Airport lounges are the gilded uplands of air travel.

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A tourist grapples with an old-school map.

The ten things that have (thankfully) disappeared from travel

Can you imagine a world without seat-back screens or wheels on suitcases?

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Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (Yamoussoukro) - Ivory Coast.

Where is the world's biggest Christian church?

Christians make up less than a third of the Muslim-majority Ivory Coast population, yet it is home to a Christian church to rival St Peter's Basilica.

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Daniel K. Inouye International Airport HNL, also known as Honolulu International Airport.

Airport review: This terminal will sap up all your holiday glow

When the staff member directs you to go back outside to the humungous TSA check-line, don't do it - there's a better option...

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Vietnam Airlines' Airbus A350-900s could fly non-stop between Los Angeles and Ho Chi Minh.

New world's longest flights: What's next for ultra long hauls

Qantas wants to fly non-stop from Australia's east coast to New York and London, but which other routes could take off in an era of ultra-long-haul flying?