Frustrated air travelers, how does this sound: A check for $500 for each hour an airline keeps you on the ground inside an airplane without fresh air, working restrooms, refreshments or the chance to go back to the gate?
Thirty-seven passengers and two flight attendants on an American Airlines flight were detained in Japan for several hours over concerns about swine flu.
United Airlines on Wednesday joined Southwest Airlines and others formalizing and putting into effect a policy for how it deals with “seatmates of size.”
Hear that flapping? It’s not cute birds returning from winter vacation. It’s the sound of any extra travel dollars you may have flying out of your wallet.
Effective Wednesday, United Airlines has a new official policy that affects “seatmates of size” and those passengers seated near them.
We pray to escape the middle row. We pay extra for a cranny of bonus leg room. And we pine for an upgrade to the highest of all Promised Lands — first class.
Cruising isn’t what it used to be. Just ask Steve Roberts, who recently sailed from Costa Maya, Mexico, to Nassau, Bahamas on the Carnival Glory.
Are tourists destroying tourism?
Who doesn’t enjoy being seated in the exit row? The seats assure cramped passengers extra inches of legroom and are an airplane’s most coveted feature.
A funny thing happened on my 6 a.m. flight from Seattle to Las Vegas last week.
A lawyer for American Airlines said Friday it was the suspicious behavior of five men of Iraqi descent, not discrimination, that caused the pilot of a Chicago-bound flight to return to the gate in August 2007.
US Airways Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III will appear in his first interview since successfully ditching a commercial jetliner on New York's Hudson River Monday on TODAY, NBC News announced.
One thing is for sure: You will be detained and arrested if you on a flight heading in to LAX last week. Witnesses say Johnson tried opening a rear emergency exit door and yelled, “I have a bomb” when other passengers tried to stop him.
AirTran Airways apologized Friday to nine Muslims kicked off a New Year's Day flight to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security. One of the passengers said the confusion started at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington, D.C., when he talked about the safest place to sit on an airplane.
At 8 p.m. on Christmas night, a surveillance camera on a Caribbean cruise ship captured the image of a woman in a bathrobe falling over the railing. Two days later, her husband accepted condolences from a fellow passenger and announced his immediate plans — a trip to the ship’s casino.
BAA Ltd., Britain's largest airport operator, said Friday that the number of passengers going through its seven airports countrywide fell nearly 9 percent in November from a year ago, as the economic downturn eroded demand and flight cancellations surged because of the closure of Bangkok's international airport and problems at Air France.
Hoping to avoid long delays while flying over the holiday? Maybe you should see if you can get a seat on Air Force One. After all, as President Bush “joked” at a press conference at the Department of Transportation (DOT) last week, “The past eight years, I have not seen a traffic jam, waited for an airplane or had my bags lost.”
Canada's largest airline is trying to figure out which obese and disabled passengers will be eligible for additional seats at no charge after the country's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the airlines.
With the economy in a tizzy, everyone is cutting back on just about everything, including travel. But don’t let that lull you into thinking everyone but you will be staying home this holiday season.
You can’t talk about the worst holiday travel experiences without mentioning the movie “Planes, Trains & Automobiles.”
Passengers stranded for hours aboard planes on the tarmac would still have to depend on the goodwill of airlines and airports for relief under guidelines adopted by a federal task force Wednesday.
EasyJet PLC, Europe's second largest discount airline, said Thursday it carried 18 percent more passengers this October than it did in the same month last year, helped by acquisitions of rivals in the face of an economic downturn.
What’s so fair about flying?
Anxious passengers on a flight to Portugal successfully petitioned Germany's Air Berlin to change their plane after a technical problem prompted the pilot to scrap two attempts to take off, the airline said Monday.
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