San Francisco airport is planning a private terminal for commercial airline passengers, letting travelers skip the main terminal, clear dedicated TSA screening, and get driven across the airfield to their plane. It is the PS-style airport experience now spreading from LAX to Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, and soon to the Bay...

I enjoyed aerial views of Buffalo on a clear and sunny day from the airplane aboard which I was a passenger shortly after it departed from Buffalo Niagara International Airport on its way to Atlanta recently. Downtown Buffalo is clearly visible in the center of both photographs as...

An Air India Express Boeing 737 has been grounded in Muscat, Oman, for more than nine days after the pilots reportedly attempted to take off with the aircraft lined up with the right-hand edge lights of the runway. The incident occurred on May 15 but is now only coming to...

In May 2023, Saudia unveiled plans to introduce an all-new business class product on upcoming Airbus A321XLRs. At the time, the plan was for those planes to be delivered in 2024, though that timeline ended up being pushed back by a couple of years, given overall A321XLR delays.

Passengers on a five-hour EasyJet flight from the Red Sea resort of Hurghada in Egypt to London Luton were in for a nasty surprise earlier this week when they discovered that their plane was going to make a precautionary diversion to Rome, Italy, because one of their seatmates had left...

Several days ago, I wrote about how two United Airlines pilots were fired following a Colorado Rockies charter flight back in 2024 (this is getting more attention now due to a whistleblower hearing that’s happening). Specifically, one of the coaches had posted a video of him in the captain’s seat...

A California hotel clerk saw Israeli passports at check-in, confronted the guests as “Zionists” and “baby killers,” filmed the exchange, and then posted it himself. The hotel says he no longer works there — but the video captures exactly why guests should not have to pass a political loyalty test...

Global pop superstar Katy Perry, best known for her Billboard chart hits Firework, Roar, and Dark Horse, has heaped praise on flight attendants at Air Canada who leapt into action to help save the life of one of the singer’s seatmates during a flight to Los Angeles on Saturday evening....

Delta's cards might add a free second checked bag, Rakuten's biggest-ever sign-up bonus is back, and your innocent vacation peace-sign selfie could be handing hackers your fingerprints.

Norwegian Air died and Norse picked up the bones. Now JPMorgan is shopping the airline, and your cheap Europe fare is on the clock.

In July 2025, Virgin Atlantic announced plans to invest in its passenger experience, including all-new cabins on its fleet of Boeing 787-9s. This is overdue, since the Dreamliners have the worst interiors you’ll find on Virgin Atlantic’s ”next generation” fleet, with herringbone seats in business class.

Welcome to our weekly list of what’s ending this week as well as a collection of some other deals that are due to end soon. Several deals are expiring this week. That includes transfer bonuses to Air France/KLM Flying Blue and Hilton, as well as the latest points sales for Choice...

People often ask me if I miss being a digital nomad, living the full-time travel life, which I did off and on for the better part of a decade. The short answer is…”no”, but of course, there’s a long answer too. If the long answer piques your interest, this post...

Whether you want to switch seats or someone asks to swap with you, there’s a right way — and a very wrong way — to handle it. It’s getting harder…

A man died in an Uber crash on the way to Midway Airport. Now the Illinois Supreme Court is considering whether his widow can sue Uber in court — or whether her own unrelated Uber app account forces her wrongful-death claims into arbitration.

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend so far! I’m at home with family, but have a big summer trip planned for a couple of weeks from now, which I’m still finalizing arrangements for (it takes a bit more effort when traveling with two little kids!). Given that it’s...