Gambia's mighty river has plenty to offer with river, jungle and safari tours and luxury lodges to delight you.

My review of the first flight I take with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Flying mid week is still cheapest according to research from Which? Travel

TripAdvisor has launched integration of rail itineraries into its award-winning flight meta-search engine, TripAdvisor Flights. The move makes TripAdvisor the first travel website to integrate rail providers in-line with flight options across a global network.

The Fareologists at Bing Travel (http://www.bing.com/travel) today issued their forecast for the 2011 summer travel season, predicting airfare and hotel costs will continue to swell.

Use these 10 travel tips to make your holiday season travels much easier. Save time and stress when flying during the busiest times of year.

Today, many tourists, students and professionals explore different places around the world. May it be for a holiday, job or new life but traveling out of the country has become more affordable and enjoyable.

On November 1, 2010, the new Secure Flight rules take effect in the U.S. Effectively, this means that anyone who has not supplied their legal name and birthdate together with their air ticket covering any flight in the United States, will be denied either the itinerary, or at worse, the ability to check in at the airport.

The history of budget air travel can be traced back to Southwest Airlines in Dallas, Texas in the Seventies, but it was not until the Nineties that deregulation of the European market allowed low-cost pioneers Ryanair and easyJet to really take off

Ryanair will continue flying domestic Italian flights after a better agreement with ENAC has been made.

New, and lax, ID requirements force Ryanair to cancel flights on security grounds.

It looks more likely than ever that British Airways staff will cause horrible holiday misery for many thousands of British and other vacationers this christmas.

As Visa is phasing out the Visa Electron cards, Ryanair will stop accepting them from January 2010. This means that the previous only way to pay for Ryanair flights without incurring a credit card fee will disappear.

Pegasus Airlines is launching 17 new routes between the UK and Turkey in 2010.

Ryanair opens 2nd hub in Oslo next year.

Air Passenger Duty (APD) is the UK's tax on flights leaving UK airports and it's set to increase by 10-50% from Sunday 1 November 2009.

In some more positive news about air travel, rather than the cuts and route closures of late, Frontier Airlines announced seasonal increases in its flight frequencies between Denver International Airport and four Mexican resort destinations.

easyJet will be cutting 20% of the airlines' flights out of London Luton airport and will be closing the East Midlands airport hub by 2010.

Now there's one less budget airline in Europe, after Sky Europe filed for bankruptcy on 1 September. The failed airline has also suspended all flights, stranding passengers waiting for their return flights.

From today, most air travelers will be asked their birth dates and genders when making airline reservations. With the new and quite public expansion of the Secure Flight program, the Transport Security Administration (TSA) will be asking airlines to provide passengers' identity information to the federal government.

Ryanair is starting eight new routes from Edinburgh to mainland Europe plus the Canaries for its winter season.

Ryanair is axing all but one of its 10 routes from Manchester Airport in a drive to cut costs after the hub refused to reduce its charges.

David Dimbleby, the host of BBC Question Time, was one of many hundreds of travelers stuck at Stansted the other day because Ryanair only opened 11 check in desks for 255 flights.

For those with last minute travel plans, Ryanair has improved their booking process so that you can fly on the same day as you book. On the website you can now go ahead and buy a ticket at anytime up to 6 hours before the scheduled departure time.

A recent survey carried out by Continental Research (July 2009) found that budget airlines are failing to live up to passenger expectations with many complaints relating to hidden costs.