aviation

Flying first class is fun. You get a bigger, comfier seat, more legroom, better food, and a wide selection of adult beverages. That fancy alcohol doesn’t come cheap, of course. …

A flight attendant’s blunt announcement over the PA system is drawing attention for how directly it addressed passengers ignoring basic safety rules during taxi. Some found it harsh. Others thought …

Those red aircraft you occasionally see on FlightRadar24 usually signal an emergency squawk — here’s what that actually means. Flightradar24 is a Swedish internet-based service that shows real-time aircraft flight …

Most people view flying as a means to get from Point A to Point B. Others view it as a chance for some bow-chicky-bow-bow (like this couple who was videotaped …

For the past couple of years, Orlando International Airport (MCO) flirted with a big, familiar airport idea: build a single, consolidated rental car facility that would serve Terminals A, B, …

Most airports have relatively mundane reasons for why they’re named what they are. They’re named after the city or county they’re in. They’re named after a person. And sometimes they’re …

Sitting in my window seat on a Southwest 737 MAX8, preparing for the short flight from Atlanta to Orlando, I snapped a quick picture of the plane at the gate …

When they’re 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 …

Toilets (a.k.a. “lavatories,” or “lavs” for short) on planes are nothing like toilets on land. Well, except for why they’re there (cuz when you gotta go, you gotta go) and …

Those of you who are aviation geeks amaze me. I mean, you can glance at a plane and know what it is. How do you even DO that??? Me? I’m …