Bookmarked Travel: Weekly travel links [26 August, 2016]

Bookmarked Travel – a round up of the best travel links and news for the week ending 26 August, 2016.

Travel Articles

Legroom: How airlines compare [CNN Money]

Airplane tires don’t explode on landing because they are pumped! [WIRED]

How to improve America’s dismal airlines [The Economist]

Watch how transatlantic flight routes from New York JFK to London LHR vary daily with the jet stream wind pattern [Reddit]

50 exotic places you desperately need to see [Canadian Traveller]

How to take a road trip like a Finn [BBC]

Crowdfunding

The inflight food trip – it’s not just plane food! – A documentary that will lift the lid on airline meals.