The iconic supersonic jet, Concorde, (which probably had an even more iconic flight number: BA001) concluded its 27-year service with a final landing at Filton runway in November 2003. An absence of commercial viability, public concerns about the plane’s noise ( the sonic boom ) alongside high levels of pollution, led to its demise.  Concorde...

In 2018, a Swedish social movement called flygskam, meaning “flight shame,” set out to make people feel guilty about boarding a plane. Seven years later, Sweden has scrapped the aviation tax it introduced at the movement’s peak, and global air travel closed out 2024 at a record high, according to a report by Flight Global...

The rise of sustainable travel, focusing on reducing our carbon footprint, brought about the concept of “flight shame”, which was better known as “flygskam”. Individuals who were concerned about the soaring levels of CO2 emissions associated with flights came up with another alternative movement known as ‘tågskryt’ – a word that is composed of the...

Some describe airplane travel as exciting, while certain people might experience contrasting feelings towards the same flight; it depends on the comfort level of any individual. However, any passenger on an aircraft under the ‘influence of turbulence’ experiences distress, and physical and even emotional discomfort. In direct words, turbulence is a phenomenon that occurs when...

From 2017 onwards, the aviation industry saw a lot of words added to its lexicon. One was “flygskam” referring to “flight-shaming” i.e. an anti-flying movement started to reduce the environmental impact of aviation. We then had “Tågskryt”– another Swedish word that literally means “train brag” encouraging people to “brag” for taking trains as their mode...