flights

I haven’t written a post like this for a while because I had no insight into what it was like flying during the COVID pandemic. We didn’t want to fly.…

Have you ever seen the flight patterns of flights from Japan to the United States? They never go directly across the Pacific Ocean to get to, say, San Francisco. They…

“Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve just reached our cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. I’m going to shut off the seatbelt sign and you’re free to walk around the cabin. But please…

There are a bajillion ways that coronavirus has messed with the world. Nearly 60 million people have contracted the illness and 2.5% of them (close to 1.5 million) have passed…

Airline schedulers’ jobs have become something like playing Whack-A-Mole. As some carriers give up slots at certain airports, other carriers grab them. And then there’s the whole “keeping up with…

In an attempt “to match low demand,” American has cut over 100,000 flights on its December 2020 schedule. That’s leaving them with about 10,000 more flights than they had in…

I had read somewhere that airlines were expecting a boom for travel during the Thanksgiving season and then read somewhere else that they were expecting a bust for the same…

As a traveler, you may be familiar with the moment when your heart jumps to your throat because you realize you left something valuable on a plane. I realize that…

Hello, travel friends and happy Saturday! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV in the past week or two. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that…

In December 2014, what was called the Cuban thaw began. U.S. President Barack Obama reached out to Cuban President Raúl Castro and the 54 years of icy relations between the…