By Ted Thornhill, Mailonline Travel Editor Published: 13:00 EDT, 17 April 2024 | Updated: 13:04 EDT, 17 April 2024 Doha’s Hamad International Airport has been named the World’s Best Airport at the Skytrax World Airport Awards 2024, aka ‘the Oscars
Author: Ted Thornhill
How hard is it to land an airliner in a crosswind – and take off in fog… with an engine failure? The Mail finds out in a thrilling Boeing 777 flight-simulator lesson with a BA captain
Ted Thornhill visits BA’s impressive Flight Training Centre near Heathrow There he has a 777 flight-sim lesson from senior training captain Al Bridger He attempts a landing with a 40-knot (46mph) crosswind And he performs an engine-failure take-off with visibility
Inside Obertauern, the ski resort made famous by The Beatles that gets so much snow it’s ‘climate-change-proof’ – and a stay at a VERY seductive hotel there with a heavenly pool and rooms with bedside condoms
MailOnline Travel’s Ted Thornhill checked in to the newly opened Obertauern Places Hotel Obertauern – which lies 1,740m above sea level – is the ski resort with the best snow record in Austria Obertauern is a mecca for Beatles fans.