by Charlie Leocha | Feb 20, 2019
Airline sick passenger rules allow diseases to spread This winter, airlines and hundreds of passengers suffered serious delays because of sickness aboard planes landing in the US. These kinds of incidents are shining a light on the airline practice of not allowing...
by Janice Hough | Feb 19, 2019
Travel insurance can be a lifesaver or at least a trip-saver. But, extra time before a cruise is the best insurance. Beyond insurance, travelers can help themselves by not cutting things too close for arrival before a cruise or a tour departs. Extra time before a...
by Ned S. Levi | Feb 18, 2019
Make the Saracini Enhanced Aviation Safety Act law for better air travel security Since the September 11 al-Qaeda attacks in which 2,996 died and 6,000 more were injured, the U.S. and the rest of the world have spent billions in the name of air travel security. The...
by Charlie Leocha | Feb 17, 2019
Hidden city ticketing can mean trouble for airlines and for passengers. TSA programs can get passengers through customs and airport security faster. Pedestrian deaths rising far faster than vehicle deaths. Hidden city ticketing: The travel hack airlines are fighting...
by Fyllis Hockman | Feb 16, 2019
International World Food Championships I have to eat more bacon? Really? Who wouldn’t want that? Okay, maybe vegetarians not so much. But I have it on good authority — my one vegan friend — that the bovine delicacy is the verboten food most missed. And here I am,...
by Janice Hough | Feb 15, 2019
If anyone didn’t know that airlines overbook, they do now — here’s an overbooking solution While I don’t always take the airlines’ side of things, I am somewhat sympathetic to the problem they have when passengers don’t show up. But these...
by Charlie Leocha | Feb 14, 2019
The Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2019 will provide protection for aviation through any future government shutdowns. A lot is happening behind the scenes in Washington, DC. While some committees in the Capital City were working to come up with funding for...
by Charlie Leocha | Feb 14, 2019
The real airline antitrust world is complex when it comes to travelers. Consumers believe that the most important actions in terms of airline antitrust protection come from the Department of Justice (DOJ) when it reviews major mergers such as the United/Continental...
by Charlie Leocha | Feb 13, 2019
Don’t expect any Valentine’s day sweets from DOT or the airlines I’m expecting no airline love this Valentine’s Day. After taking a look at the world of airline and DOT customer service I’ve come up with 10 ways that airlines and DOT,...
by Christopher Elliott | Feb 12, 2019
Cleaning fees for hotels and home rentals are showing up more and more If you hate paying cleaning fees on top of a hotel or vacation rental rate, then you have a lot in common with Laurel Barton. Cleaning fees are Barton’s pet peeve. “Nothing annoys me...
