Airline & Holiday Information

Archive for September, 2009

Vancouver Airport (YVR) is the closest airport to the famous ski holiday destination Whistler, which is located is the Coastal Mountain range in British Columbia, Canada. Whistler is the official alpine skiing venue for the 2010 Olympic Games and due to the additional investment that the resort has had means it is a great place to enjoy your skiing holidays in Canada. The Olympic Games are being held from February 12th – 28th and the Paralympic Games are held March 12th to 21st, so if you are planning on going skiing in 2010 then you’ll need to book around these dates. Although Vancouver Airport is the closest airport to the Whistler it is still 134km away which can take around 2 hours by car.

YVR has four runways 08L/26R which is 9,940FT, 08R/26L 11,500FT long, 12/30 7,300FT long and 26A which is a short 3,500FT in length.

The airport has 4 terminals; the domestic terminal was originally built in 1968 and has very recently undergone a full restoration. The international terminal was only built in the early 1990’s. The south terminal is placed in a remote part of the airport but mainly only serves short internal flights within British Columbia. The domestic and international terminal can really be classed as one building that is separated into buildings.

Back in 2005 the government reduced the rent on which the land lies on by at least 54% which will reduce the cost of the lease be $840 million CAD or $5.0 Billion over the entire term of the lease which ends in 2052.

Vancouver airport at night

Just some of the airlines that have flights to Venice include Aer Lingus, Aeroflot, Air France, Alitalia, BMI, British Airways, Delta Airlines, EasyJet, Emirates, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Ryanair, SAS, and United States Airways.

Venice is one of the most beautiful and popular cities in the world and is admired and visited by many thousands of tourists throughout the year. Among the most popular things to do during your stay is visiting the numerous historic buildings, such as Caffe Florian, Academy Gallery, the Doge’s Palace, the Naval History Museum and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, which exhibits the proud past of the city.

An interesting, but often overlooked tourist destination is Caffe Florian, which was constructed in 1720. Its most notable customers included Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Proust, Stravinsky and Modigliani. A more famous stop on the tourist trail is the Doge’s Palace, a pink and white marble palace that was constructed in the 12th century and which has been almost continuously refurbished and renovated ever since. This palace symbolises the most celebrated period of Venetian history and is the city’s most obvious testament to its prosperity and power.

The Lido is the site of one of Europe’s oldest Jewish cemeteries, which was established in 1386. A gravestone, dating from 1389 can still be seen there.

Before heading for home on your flight from Venice, you should try to make time to visit the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, which is an unfinished palazzo housing museum works that have been identified as among the Western world’s most detailed contemporary art collections. Paintings on display here include several by such renowned artists as Picasso, Dali, Chagall, Duchamp, Ernst, Mondrian, Pollock and many others.

After browsing Youtube the other day we thought that we would publish our own Top 10 Best Flight Simulator Videos.

1.  This our number 1 video just for the varity of planes and comedy value of the ATC Lady.

2. A video of Micrsoft Flight Simulator through the years slightly long but very interesting.

3.  Video Of FSX Flight Simulator X HD with a Las Vegas Landing.

4. A Boeing 747 landing at Hong Kong INTL.

5. A sim of Concordes last flight.

We are sure that there are plenty of great Flight Simulator X videos out on youtube but these are our favourite 5