Tagged: air-travel

American Airlines Cracks Down on Support Animals

Emotional support insects are no longer welcome on American Airlines flights.Whoever heard of an emotional support insect, you ask? We have two words for you: Jiminy Cricket.In…

United’s Updated Pet Policy: Ban Certain Breeds

United Airlines has updated its pet-carrying policy following a comprehensive internal review in the wake of a disastrous couple of weeks in March. First a French bulldog died on a…

What Fresh Hell Is This? Standing Airplane Seats

Just when you thought the aviation industry couldn't possibly find a way to cram more people onto an airplane—short of stashing passengers in the cargo hold or overhead compartment…

Arthur Frommer's Travel Resolutions for the New Year

Because they often seek to regulate all of human activity, I find most New Year’s Resolutions to be rather unsatisfying. Here’s an attempt to limit these rules to the world of travel,…

Proposals to Privatize Air Traffic Control Are Based on Ideology, Not Practicality

Within the United States, the world of travel is troubled by several ongoing controversies that remain unresolved: whether to continue to permit travel to Cuba, whether to ban…

Halloween at Dracula's Castle, Sexual Assault on Flights, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

Good morning, everybody! Here's the latest from the world's airplanes, islands, and castles.* ARE CONDITIONS ON FLIGHTS LEAVING PASSENGERS VULNERABLE TO SEXUAL ASSAULT? (New York…

Yosemite Expands, the Trump Campaign's Effect on Trump Hotels, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

Here's what's happening in the world of travel this Monday morning.* YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK EXPANDS (Associated Press). California's Yosemite National Park grew by 400 acres last…

The Fees Travelers Love....At Least for Now

Discuss the mechanics of travel with most folks and the talk inevitably turns to fees. Sometimes you can actually feel the room heating up as travelers rail against having to pay…

Vintage Airline Uniforms, Vintage Lighthouses, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

Here's what's happening today in the world of travel.* COUNTRIES WHERE TOURISTS OUTNUMBER LOCALS (The Telegraph). According to numbers crunched by London's The Daily Telgraph, there…

UNESCO Adds Endangered Sites, Hamilton Tourism, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

Here's what's happening today in the world of travel.* SITES IN MALI, SYRIA, AND UZBEKISTAN ADDED TO UNESCO ENDANGERED LIST (Time). An ancient village of mud houses in Mali has been…

Wider Airplane Seats (No, Really!), Hotel Satisfaction, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

Here's what's happening today in the world of travel.* PLANE WITH WIDER SEATS DEBUTS (NO, REALLY!) (The Guardian). Here's a sentence we don't get to write every day: a company that…

US Travel Warnings, Draft Beers on Flights, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

Here's what happening today in the world of travel.* THREE COUNTRIES ISSUE U.S. TRAVEL WARNINGS (Reuters). Three countries have issued warnings urging their citizens to exercise…

Good News in Air Travel, Bad News in Air Travel, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

Good morning! Hope you had a nice holiday weekend. In today's travel roundup, we've got good news and bad news related to air travel. Let's start with the good . . . * COFFEE UPGRADE…

Beware! A New Airfare Gotcha Penalizes Travelers on Multi-Stop Itineraries

TimDorr/FlickrThe majority of travelers buy non-refundable airfares for a simple reason: They're vastly less expensive than refundable fares. But those who try to book…

A Novel Device for Sharing Wi-Fi in the Sky

You're at 1,600 feet and suddenly you feel the bile rising in your throat.It's not turbulence. It's the outrageously high cost of Wi-Fi in the sky.I wish I could tell you've we…

A Major Study Is Out And What It Says About Trends In Airfares Could Save You Big Bucks

For aviation geeks (like me), the day that the Airline Reporting Corporation releases its annual survey of airfares feels like a birthday—one on which you don’t get any older. And…

Snacks Are Back On United Airlines

Well here's some news that may put a smile on your face (just as it's moving your belt buckle an inch more towards your hips). United Airlines has announced that it will be bringing…

25.3 Million People Will Fly Over Thanksgiving: 10 Airport Strategies If You're Going to Be One of Them

The industry group Airlines for America is predicting that 65,000 more people PER DAY will fly this year than last, between November 20 and December 1. That's an uptick of 3%, and…

Airfares Are Dipping Once Again (and Two Other Pieces of Good News for Flyers)

Overly chatty seatmates, cramped seating and long security lines: these unhappy byproducts of airline travel aren’t going away anytime soon. But this week, several news events…

JetBlue Announces It Will Offer Free Wi-Fi

It's no secret that the major airlines act like lemmings. One adds a baggage fee and the next follows. One throws a sale, and soon the whole pack is in.But for once that may be…

Driver Licences From Four U.S. States May No Longer Be Accepted As I.D. at Airports in 2016

And those states are: New York, New Hampshire, Louisiana, and Minnesota.In December of 2014, the first phase of the Real ID Act from Congress and the Department of Homeland…

Emirates Airlines Will Fly the Longest Route on the Planet: Tips on Surviving 17.5 Hours in a Plane

17.5 hours. That’s the length of the new longest flight on the planet, which will soon be offered by Emirates Airlines between Dubai and Panama City. Convenient? Certainly.…

Can a Florida Congressman Put the Brakes on American Travel To Cuba?

The vast majority of Americans favor travel without restriction to Cuba. Heck, in a recent poll the overwhelming majority of Cuban Americans answered that they wanted to end the…

Airfares to Asia Dropping Below Those to Europe In Many Cases, and From the East Coast, No Less

When is a sale not a sale? When it actually just reflects the going rates, but in a, well, louder fashion.That's seems to be the case with Emirate Airlines current "deal" to Kuala…

Want to Use Your Frequent Flyer Miles? Guess How Many You'll Need. No, Really, GUESS, Says One Airline

How would you feel if you walked into a grocery store and underneath the butter, the broccoli and the babaganoush were signs with question marks rather than prices?Well, Delta has…