The Chinese airline is experimenting with fuels for its aircraft. Recently, it tried a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from cooking oil collected from restaurants. The 665-mile flight went as smoothly as an expert chef prepares Peking Duck.

So, next time you finish eating your delicious dinner of Peking Duck, gai lan, egg roll and fried rice, leave a bit of the oil on your plate. Just maybe, it could help bring the rising cost of flying down a teeny bit.

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According to a recent USA Today report, Zodiac Seats France has patented a new idea for even more sardine-can airline seat designs. It’s called "economy class cabin hexagon." Only math majors can understand the format.

The squeezed layout sets the middle seat backward. Zodiac says it will "increase cabin density (more people per flight) while also creating seat units that increase the space available at the shoulder and arm area. This creates an overlap in the shoulder areas of adjacent seats." In other words, tighter sardine-can stuffing.

.... your shoe, airline seat, aisle floor, arm rest or toilet seat overflight? Remember that old song? According to the Moscow Times, the Russian airline Pobeda has had it with sticky chewing gum. It claims to be spending thousands of rubles to clean up squashed wads from the passenger sections of their airplanes.

Therefore, the subsidiary airline of Aeroflot has banned Spearmint and all other forms of gum from its flights. Russian airport security is already super tight when passengers go through the line. So, just imagine what the guards will do if you show up as a suspicious chewer.

Tho we admired Charles Boyer and his amorous ways many years ago, recent instructions from Paris tell their citizens not to emulate him when they travel in America.

The advice includes being aware of drinking restrictions, slower driving speeds, stormy weather and “to adopt a reserved attitude toward those of the opposite sex.” Today, Monsieur Boyer would be restricted to just offering his platonic friendship to Hedy Lamarr.