Alaska Airlines is celebrating National Ugly Sweater Day by offering priority boarding to any passengers wearing a Christmas sweater. With holiday travel a source of stress for many, the airline is expressing empathy by acknowledging their frustrations and offering some light-hearted relief.

To accommodate the growing number of international travellers, airports are undergoing massive refurbishments to transform processing hubs into destinations in their own right. How are they catering to people’s changing expectations of technology, leisure, and sustainability?

Despite a rise in public conscious over green issues, budget airlines have fuelled holidaymakers’ thirst for travelling further and more often. But the environmental consequences of this ever-growing market are huge. So why do people find it hard to live up to their eco-ideals when it comes to air travel? And how can brands help them to fly greener?

The invention of air travel has quite literally brought people from far-flung corners of world closer. But from the snorer, to the heads-on-your-shoulder types, flying has created a whole new class of travel etiquette, and this is something British Airways have surveyed its flyers to index.