FLIGHT TEST

Aircraft Virgin America Airbus A319.

Decked out

Doors are opening for passengers who once had a window view, writes Mike Heard.

New Player Will Mean Big Savings

Competition is hotting up as Royal Caribbean Cruises moves in, writes Mike Heard

Pall Of Grief On Luxury Liner

Slightly more than 500 German tourists were booked to set sail today on a 14-day cruise down the east coast of America, through the Caribbean via Cuba, through the Panama Canal and on to Ecuador. But the crash of the Air France Concorde means 109 names have been struck from the manifest of the l

Go With The Gods

CUNARD'S superliners Royal Viking Sun, QE2 and the Sea Goddesses I and II all offer savings on a variety of cruises in the next few months. QE2 will visit Sydney in early February and then spend five weeks sailing in Asian waters. Fly/cruise packages include nine nights from Sydney to Bali from $4,

The Romantic Islands Of The Caribbean

THE Caribbean! Even the name is magical, conjuring up thoughts of the Spanish Main, of sunken and buried treasure, of pirates and smugglers, of calypso and rum, of cricketing supermen. When I went there, cruising for 10 days in Sitmar's hospitable Fairwind, I found the modern reality some