by Ned S. Levi | Jun 8, 2026
I have 10 hacks to prevent TSA security hassles and individualized inspections, inadvertent test-positive results for explosives, theft, and being slowed or detained. A theft at TSA Security (Transportation Security Administration) at the Fort Lauderdale airport has...
by Charlie Leocha | Jun 5, 2026
Both airlines and passengers bear responsibility for the recent spate of misbehaving travelers. Airline passengers are normally nice folk with good manners. However, the airlines have taken advantage of passengers’ good manners and reduced safety in a drive to...
by Charlie Leocha | Jun 4, 2026
Baggage reporting rules protect passengers and handicapped mobility devices. The Department of Transportation (DOT) released new baggage reporting rules about a year and a half ago. Passengers are not very excited about the new rule, but they should be. The important...
by Christopher Elliott | Jun 3, 2026
Summer road trip questions you never ask (but should). My family’s summer road trip was less than an hour old when an unfamiliar orange exclamation point illuminated the dashboard of our Honda Pilot. We were merging onto I-95, a stretch of asphalt that exhausts even...
by Janice Hough | Jun 2, 2026
There are travelers and agencies out there who practically make a second job out of understanding frequent flyer programs and earning the maximum miles. In general, travel agents don’t work with miles, so most of us are not experts. But I have increasingly...
by Ned S. Levi | Jun 1, 2026
Most sunscreens in the U.S. offer little, if any, UVA protection, the kind of protection needed to safeguard users from contracting skin cancer. Americans need to demand that the FDA changes that by reforming sunscreen regulations. The summer vacation season in the...
by Charlie Leocha | May 29, 2026
Amazingly, 1 out of 4 car rental travelers is wrongly accused of unjust rental car damage charges. A recent poll of Travelers United subscribers found that 25 percent of members have experienced unjust rental car damage charges. The surprising results come from a...
by Charlie Leocha | May 28, 2026
Missed airline connections caused by system delays should be the responsibility of the airlines. Recently, a study using DOT data showed that airline delays that cause missed airline connections have been increasing at an alarming number of airports across the...
by Christopher Elliott | May 27, 2026
When airlines fail, passengers pay the price. Congress should bring back the rule that helps consumers. Tens of thousands of Spirit Airlines passengers showed up at the airport last week and discovered their tickets were worthless. They could have scrambled for a...
by Janice Hough | May 26, 2026
Leisure travelers know business travel is a major factor, but leisure travelers are filling the business void. Full disclosure — for anyone who doesn’t already know — I’m a rare breed of travel agent. I book both business and leisure travel. So yes, I want...
