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Australian airlines estimate the average weight of a female at 66.7 kgs and a male at 81.8 kgs.

Miss or Ms? Airline's serious stuff-up on passengers' weight

You're at the check-in desk, your luggage is on the scales and the weight noted to the nearest one-tenth of a kilogram – but what about you?

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Australia is at risk of becoming a hermit nation, closed off from the rest of the world with no plan for reopening borders.

Five things we must do if we ever want Australia's borders to open

Australia needs a strategy, any strategy, if it has any hope of reopening itself to the world.

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Inside Passenger Shaming, the notorious Instagram of bad travel behaviour

When it comes to air travel, your fellow passengers can make or break the experience.

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If there's going to be another lockdown in New Zealand, chances are it's going to happen in Auckland.

Seven key tips for avoiding a travel bubble lockdown

Even interstate travel in Australia at the moment is problematic, so how risky is travelling to New Zealand?

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COVID-19 aside, there are several vaccines travellers should consider getting before heading overseas, particularly to ...

The other vaccines (besides COVID-19) you should get before travelling

With the COVID-19 vaccine in the spotlight, it's worth looking at what other vaccines travellers should consider before heading overseas.

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On the Great Himalaya Trail with World Expeditions.

Hoping for a long holiday after COVID-19? Here are the world's longest

When the pandemic is over, you may find you want a longer holiday than usual. Here are the world's longest.

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Travellers and now obtain some insurance against COVID-19, but it won't cover sudden border closures.

Travel insurers start offering COVID-19 cover, but there's a (major) catch

Some travel insurers will now cover medical expenses or cancellations due to COVID-19, but none will cover sudden border closures.

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Sunshine, beautiful scenery ... our canal cruise in Italy had none of these things.

The trip that nearly put me off travel, forever

I miss international travel. I miss everything about it. But then I like to think back to this one trip. And then I don't miss travel at all.

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Engines mounted at the rear of airlines planes were common in the early days of aviation and did have some advantages ...

Why airlines no longer use rear-engine planes

When we first started travelling the world aboard jet-powered passenger aircraft you could almost be certain your plane would have engines in the rear.

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Before smartphones and Wi-Fi, internet cafes were how travellers kept in touch with home.

Why I can never give up my dodgy old Hotmail account

It's my first email address, the one I made specifically because I was about to go away overseas for a year or two and I wanted to keep in contact with everyone back home.