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Passengers seldom appear in historical accounts as having their own role in the development of civil aviation. This study identifies a particular class of air-travellers: colonial officers and their families, stationed throughout the British Empire, who in the late 1940s drove a shift to the air at a time of an acute crisis in shipping accommodations. The drive from sea to air relied on an administrative infrastructure which was created by the Crown Agents for the Colonies on the basis of their earlier agreements with shipping companies. The Crown Agents administered the passage of colonial officers and negotiated a rebate agreement with British Overseas Airways Corporation in 1949. The study concludes that the history of civil aviation and the shift from sea to air travel depended not only on technological improvements but also on passengers whose practices normalised air-travel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among international travellers. Online travel health information is largely focused on infectious disease despite the higher burden of CVD in this patient population. There have not been any studies assessing the availability of key travel health information online for patients with CVD. Methods: Websites of national societies of cardiology (NSC) affiliated with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) were included in the study. A list of NSCs affiliated with ESC was obtained from the ESC website. All travel health information on the websites identified was analysed. Additional websites of medical societies not affiliated with ESC were assessed for comparison. Each NSC was individually contacted and asked to complete an anonymised questionnaire to identify any measures taken by each NSC towards travel health promotion among travellers with CVD. Results: Two (4.5%) NSC websites contained relevant travel information. Topics addressed were venous thromboembolism (VTE) and pulmonary embolism (PE) prophylaxis, high altitude travel, implanted cardiac devices (ICD) and atrial fibrillation. The questionnaire arm of the study revealed that the majority of NSCs agree that travel health is an important aspect of CVD prevention and that there is a lack of online travel health information for this population. Conclusion: Considering the significant risks travel can impose on patients with CVD, there is a disproportionate lack of information on this subject online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but 'green' consumers often continue to fly. This paper provides novel insights into the stubbornness of air-travel by specifically studying the obstacles that environmentally conscious consumers face when trying to limit or eliminate aeromobility. Through in-depth interviews with Norwegian environmental organization workers – conceptualised as particularly self-reflexive when it comes to environmentally contested forms of consumption – we analyse how environmentalists negotiate one of the most environmentally destructive aspects of their consumption patterns. To explore how the social embeddedness of flying complicates the reduction of air-travel in these accounts, we draw on a combination of mobilities and social practice approaches. The participants considered flying to be problematic, but also often necessary in specific practices. Various expectations related to convenience, time, and sociality, led to a certain 'lock-in' of (aero)mobility. Zooming out to consider broader practice geographies, we argue that aeromobility contributes to the tempo-spatial expansion of many practices, changing their contents, meanings, and the contexts in which they unfold. To achieve sustainable mobility, we suggest that attention must be shifted from the air-travels of individual consumers to the broader practices in which aeromobility is embedded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an exploratory analysis of air travel demand stimulation by non-stop service in first-time served markets (FTMS). Using a data sample of 5,170 records representing service entries in global FTMS from September 2015 to August 2019, we examine demand response to the newly introduced non-stop service and the corresponding market characteristics. Four different variables are considered to represent air travel demand stimulation that can be adopted by practitioners. These variables include Stimulated Passengers, Stimulation Multiplication Factor, Stimulation Rate, and Passengers Stimulated per Non-stop Seat. We estimate a multiple regression model for each of these four dependent variables. The main goal is to understand how the different representations of demand stimulation relate to each other and how their corresponding models explain the different representations of demand stimulation. Results show that there are differences in how these four variables represent demand stimulation and the explanatory power of their corresponding models. • An analysis of air travel demand stimulation. • Medium- and long-term airlines' network planning applications. • A sample of airlines' First Time-Served-Markets (FTSM). • A comprehensive descriptive analysis of explanatory variables of demand. • Multiple regression models for demand stimulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]