If this week’s Road & Rail Wrap was a meal, it’d be a family-sized banquet, as opposed to it usually looking like chicken stuffing and sides.

The big bird of Qantas’ international fleet, the Airbus a380, has left a large group of Aussie scouts stranded in LA due to a mechanical issue.

This week’s aviation wrap contains some good news and some bad news. But mostly good news.

Travel Weekly took a leaf out of Spider-Man’s book by donning an alter-ego for airline news with the ‘aviation wrap’. Someone should have told us the red and blue leotard was optional.

Start getting excited agents, because you could win some killer prizes from American Airlines! And if that news won’t get you through Tuesday, nothing will.

We spent our last 14-hour stopover wedged between crying children and an old man with Bronchitis. These options sound much more sanitary.

And no, this does not mean you can toke up midflight. You’ll have to wait until you get to your destination first.

Who said airport stopovers had to be a struggle? Bring out your inner diva at these fabulous lounges in Australia’s gateway to the US.

Excuse us, but LAX is celebrating PUPs! Pets unstressing passengers, that is. And yes, it’s just as great as it sounds.

The amount of deals in the aviation industry this week is sending our brain airborne. Ok, we admit that pun was a bit of a stretch.

It’s big, it’s fat, no, it’s not our post-Christmas feasting body, it’s the Big Fat Airline Wrap!

Tuesdays are for two things; our Airline Wrap and calling our mum. And we usually forget the second one.