Air Travel

When put “in charge” of a few hundred passengers, flight attendants wind up getting a lot of questions. And because their “audience” is different from flight to flight, they tend …

According to the Department of Transportation’s final Air Travel Consumer Report of the year, in 2023, U.S. airlines lost (they prefer the word “mishandled” – that includes lost, damaged, delayed …

Most people who fly have been the victim of another passenger who’s done something boneheaded. Or rude. Or maybe they were only thinking of themselves and it put others at …

We often travel with Southwest Airlines, usually taking at least one trip a year. This is why it makes sense for us to have the Southwest Rapid Rewards Priority co-brand …

When we travel overseas, we have a strong preference for train travel over short-distance flights. This was the case when we journeyed from Salzburg, Austria, to Munich and then to …

Full disclosure: save for one flight in Asia (one where the overheads were positioned for a country whose residents tended to be on the short side), I have never put …

I have this friend on Facebook – his name is Mark. And Mark recently posted a story about what happened to him on a plane not all that long ago. …

For the most part, the safety announcements flight attendants make on the PA are pretty much the same, regardless of the airline. The FAA mandates a specific pre-take-off announcement, with …

There’s no other form of transportation where you give up as much freedom of personal space as airplanes. Unlike other modes of transportation, such as your car or a train, …

Flying first class has always been a “big thing” to a lot of people. And no wonder – at best it gives you the sense of traveling in the lap …