This post originally appeared in Truth.Travel's aviation blog, On the Fly.Just as two flaked-out flyboys were getting their licenses yanked by the Federal Aviation Administration earlier this week, an unusual confab was taking place in a hangar at Newark Airport: ...
October 2009 Archives
A new analysis of Amtrak’s books may spell the end of the great American cross-country train trip—like the one Jim Robbins took on Amtrak’s Empire Builder for our August 2008 story, “Back on Track?”
An amendment to the $68.8 billion Senate transportation and housing and urban development spending bill will withhold $1.5 billion in Amtrak funding if the government-owned train company doesn’t let passengers check firearms with their baggage.
If it sticks, United Airlines' new premier baggage plan could lead to whole new onslaught of creative fees upon fees. And if you think the current system is maddeningly complex, watch out.
A new bill introduced in Congress today calls for stricter dumping restrictions for cruise ships sailing through U.S. waters. The Clean Cruise Ship Act, submitted by California congressman Sam Farr and Illinois Senator Durbin, is the latest attempt to ban...
You can do it on Emirates. You can do it on British Air (well one plane, anyway). And as we learned this week you’ll be able to do it on all Lufthansa’s long-distance flights. The ‘it’ is use your...
Lengthy airline delays are twice as common now as in 1990 and will get worse as the economy recovers, according to a Brookings Institution report released Thursday. But hey, flying has rarely been cheaper.
The twelfth-century Al Hadba’ Minaret in Mosul, Iraq, is considered the most important landmark in the country but sorely neglected after six years of war.
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