Every year, the New York Times travel section publishes a ranked list of the 52 best places to go that year, and if you're the adventurous type, the world sure is your reclined-seat oyster. This year, the number one best place to visit is Milan, Italy, followed close behind by Cuba (finally) and Philadelphia (super…
A Southwest Airlines flight collided with an American Airlines plane at LaGuardia this morning, clipping off a chunk of one of the Southwest plane's wings.
A proper rite of passage when traveling through America's lavish airport system is pushing a hot, thick Cinnabon in your craw as you "run" pathetically to catch your flight. At times of desperation, like when the Burger King is out of BK Chicken Fries™ and an unripe banana™ simply won't do, Cinnabon is a jetsetter's…
The expected Thanksgiving snowstorm isn't here yet, but the collapse of everyone's holiday travel plans is already underway, with Delta reporting "57 cancels planned for New York area tomorrow morning." See you in the Lincoln Tunnel!
Europe is home to three things: people who can drink beer and not get fat, house music, and hostels. If you've been planning a trip to Denmark to find the Williamsburg of Copenhagen, but weren't quite sure about the hostel landscape, you're about get super stupid lucky, you silly hipster.
Fuck Expedia. A friendly Canadian man named Jordan Axani has a great deal for offer on Reddit right now: If your name is Elizabeth Gallagher, you can fly around the world with him for free!
Some years ago, the airline industry set itself on the path towards its current record profits by shrinking seats more, and more, and more. What does the future hold for airlines? More shrinking seats.
BRANSON, MO—Among the things that I dislike most in this world are patriotism, religion, tourist traps, country music, and the Walmart corporation. So I traveled to the one area of this nation that captures them all. It did not go as planned.
The latest skirmish in the great legroom wars of 2014 took place on a flight from New York City to Palm Beach, Florida, Monday, as the third commercial flight in just one week was diverted after passengers argued over a reclining seat.
The day before I went to Detroit, the city imposed a curfew due to fears of violence. The city was also in the process of shutting off water to thousands of its residents. It sounds bad. But as long as you stay inside a sealed corporate bubble the whole time, you'll never even know these problems exist.
A United Airlines flight from Chicago to California made an emergency landing in Wichita, Kansas last night after an evacuation slide was accidentally deployed mid-flight. No one was injured and the plane landed safely, according to a statement from the airline.
Flying is easy. One would think.
After two streakers were caught grazing the lush world wonder of Machu Picchu in Cusco, Peru, and while a bohemian low-level Adam Duritz chronicles his unclothed Latin American jaunt, many are asking: could getting buckwild in your birthday suit be the next trend in travel?
Flying, once a quirky luxury, has not completed its transition into an unavoidable descent to hell. The experience of flying on commercial airlines grows more excruciatingly painful by the day.
Between the ice storm and the Super Bowl, this week will go down in history as the worst week for tri-state commuters of all time. Early this morning, a wintry mix the likes of which has not been seen since last year hit New York City, New Jersey, and Long Island.
An entire terminal in Laguardia, America's worst airport, was evacuated today after a baggage handler reported smoke coming from a piece of luggage. Nothing to worry about, folks. Just a smokin' bag.
In a development that can only be described as shocking as well as startling, a proposed Noah's Ark Theme Park in Kentucky is having some financing problems. Do we have an investment idea for you!
Jet Blue is ending service to all NYC-area airports and to Boston at 5 p.m. today and not resuming until 10 a.m. tomorrow, due to weather. That's more than 300 cancelled flights. Type your tales of woe in the discussion section, travelers.
When Matt Drudge wasn’t writing up ALL-CAPS HEADLINES over the past year about Hillary Clinton, Trayvon Martin, Quentin Tarantino, and the “knockout game,” the notoriously peripatetic ur-blogger began occasionally documenting his whereabouts on Twitter—a bold decision for the famously reclusive Miamian.
O Peggy, my Peggy, so heady—gentle Peg! She travels, unravels, then babbles—is she dead?
