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A Third Runway, Anyone?
OSL seen from the north. Creative Commons licensed photo by Avinor. Several airports want to add a third runway, including Oslo Airport...
Gunnar Garfors
Dec 23, 20192 min read
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No, Flying Doesn’t Have the Worst Carbon Footprint
War, what is it good for? Given my extensive travelling it may not surprise you that I am often accused of having the world’s biggest...
Gunnar Garfors
May 23, 20193 min read
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How Travel Can Be Part of the Green Change
Kiribati is one of the countries at risk if sea levels increase. And no, the title is not clickbait. I have travelled to every country in...
Gunnar Garfors
Apr 29, 20195 min read
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Comments from a Climate Culprit
I have travelled to every country in the world twice, most recently to write the book “Elsewhere” (“Ingenstad“) about the world’s 20...
Gunnar Garfors
Apr 3, 201916 min read
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Not the World’s Worst Airports
The main road around the country runs through Nauru airport, and is closed everytime an aircraft lands Which isnæt all that often, but...
Gunnar Garfors
Sep 24, 20183 min read
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The World’s Worst Air Routes
Kangerlussuaq (SFJ) airport in Greenland doesn’t feature on any of these itineraries. There are potentially some really bad air routes...
Gunnar Garfors
Jun 17, 20182 min read
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Is it safe to fly?
The question following any plane crash, especially in the so called industrialized or western world where flying “should be safe”, does...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 29, 20154 min read
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Fido and Facebook Filthier than Flying
Yes, so I fly. A lot. Does that make me a bad person? The reason why island nations around the world are “sinking“? One of the most...
Gunnar Garfors
Jan 5, 20154 min read
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Collecting Airports, The New Craze
Or is it? I recently heard about a newspackage on TV 2 and read an NRK article about guys collecting airports. Yes, both of them were...
Gunnar Garfors
Jul 10, 20142 min read
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100,000 Flights a Day
Fly, fly away. There’s always a train. Or so a Norwegian saying goes. These days, planes seem to be catching up though. There has never...
Gunnar Garfors
Jun 2, 20142 min read
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Truly International Airports Sprawling More Than One Country
How to make people even more confused about international air travel? And to create additional nightmares for border control guards,...
Gunnar Garfors
Aug 13, 20133 min read
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The World’s 10 Busiest Air Routes
What are the ten busiest air routes in the world? Place your bets. Which cities did you guess? London-Paris? Wrong, they have too much...
Gunnar Garfors
Aug 8, 20132 min read
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Hand Luggage Only
My suitcase is smaller than yours! Although it is quite often not even a suitcase but a backpack. In travel, size does matter. The...
Gunnar Garfors
Aug 1, 20134 min read
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How to Book Cheap Plane Tickets
Your travels are are far too important to leave for someone else to arrange. Who am I to come up with such arrogant nonsense? I am a...
Gunnar Garfors
May 27, 20134 min read
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Flybillettar på nett – kvar og kvifor?
Gå hit for testen av flybillettbestillingsnettstader eg skreiv på oppdrag frå NRKbeta. Intervjuet som tok utganspunkt i artikkelen vart...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 12, 20131 min read
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Guess Which 6 Countries Have No Airports
Yes, such countries do actually exist. There are six of them, five of them are tiny and in Europe. Four of them are inside or very close...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 6, 20133 min read
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These Airlines Fly to Most Countries
You can measure the size of an airline in many ways. By number of passengers, number of planes, flown passenger kilometers or through...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 5, 20135 min read
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Avoiding Airport to City Rip-offs
Somehow is seems that ‘bad apples’ are overrepresented among taxi drivers based in airports. How can you avoid being ripped off by them...
Gunnar Garfors
Feb 4, 20134 min read
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