travel trivia

Ever wonder why U.S. airports don’t operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Well, technically, they DO. With few exceptions, airports don’t 100% close when the last plane …

Remember when you were a little kid and you tried to “dig a hole to China?” Welp, thanks to the wonders of computers and the internet, there’s a map that’ll …

Here in the mainland United States, we’re used to having 6 time zones. The mainland U.S. has Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time and Pacific time. Alaska is an hour …

As years go on, airlines change their logos, liveries and, occasionally, their names. Case in point, American Airlines is currently on their fifth logo since 1934: American’s liveries have also …

Ever wonder why your Southwest flight says “WN” instead of “SW”? Or why JetBlue hides behind “B6”? The two-letter airline codes you see at airports seem simple, but a lot …

Chances are excellent that you’ve heard of “no-fly zones.” Also known as “no-flight zones,” or “air exclusion zones,” they are areas or territories established by a military or political power …

One of our readers wrote to us the other day and asked if it was true that pilots and co-pilots are required to eat different meals. The answer to this …

Have you ever noticed that the inside of airplanes is HUGE, but their windows are tiny? What’s up with that? Well, it turns out there are a couple of reasons… …

I’ve always loved quirky travel tidbits. Stuff that you may not have ever thought of or heard about. It could be learning what Disney Rash is, or why planes don’t …

Regardless of brand, there’s a standard set of amenities you can expect to find in most American hotels. We’ve already explained some of them in the past, like: why hotel …