Airlines

It doesn’t matter if you watched Saturday Night Live this past weekend or not. By the time Monday rolled around, just about everyone had seen the skit the show had…

In their quest to squash more and more bodies into planes, airlines have made seats narrower and narrower. Whereas seat width 30 years ago averaged around 19 or 20 inches,…

Back in late 2020, we posted a list of all the airlines that had declared bankruptcy and had gone out of business that year. Of course, 2020 was the height…

I feel attacked! The Washington Post wrote an article about couples who book aisle and window seats. I have no shame in admitting that I book a window and aisle…

For the past several years, I’ve looked back at our travels for the previous 12 months. I like to remember our trips but it’s also a way to evaluate our…

According to Lufthansa Systems, the earliest validated instance of in-flight entertainment (IFE) took place in 1921. That was when when Aeromarine Airways, a company that offered a type of seaplane…

No matter if you’re a leisure or business traveler, when you buy an airline ticket, you expect to get from where you are to where you want to go. In…

Remember in-flight magazines? You hardly see them anymore. And even in today’s world of flight, when Covid is endemic, it looks as if in-flight magazines might never see the light…

Each airline is different and with that, some of them do things differently. Take boarding procedures, for example. Southwest is a good example – they don’t have seating assignments. Instead,…

Airlines have been charging for things that used to be free for decades. First, they started charging to check bags. Then they began charging extra for seats with extra legroom,…