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Travelers hunting harder for bargains

02/04/25

(This is a slightly different version of a story we first prepared for NBC News online) Consumers are looking for ways to travel on tighter budgets. Many are ditching first-choice options like flights for cheaper ones, like long-haul bus rides. Others are just staying home. It’s the latest sign that consumers are making tough choices →

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DFW’s Skylink marks a moving milestone

06/26/15

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is celebrating a few milestones this summer, including the 10-year anniversaries of Terminal D, the Grand Hyatt DFW and the Skylink people mover, which connects all five DFW terminals and is billed as the world’s largest automated airport bi-directional train system. To celebrate, Hudson Group and DFW put together this nice →

Going the distance at airports

06/09/15

Sometimes that walk – more often, that dash – between gates for a connectintg flight feels like a mile. Or more. But how long is that walk really? And what is the longest distance a passenger would have to walk to make a connection at a U.S. airport? With the help of airport record keepers →

Bike to the airport?

05/26/15

Bike to or from the airport? In many cities you can do that and an increasing number of airports are making it easier to park, store, assemble, disassemble or make needed repairs to your bike. Earlier this month Seattle-Tacoma International Airport marked National Bike Month with a new bicycle assembly/disassembly station, along with updated bike →

Thanks for the car ride, United.

04/12/14

Sampling United's tarmac car service. →

Travel superstitions

10/14/12

Are you superstitious about things relating to travel? Ever since the bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln was placed outside the tomb holding his remains at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Ill., people have been rubbing the nose for good luck. “We know presidential candidates Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Bob Dole rubbed the nose,” →

Alternate airports with great alternate cities

12/23/10

Around this time of year, experts often remind air travelers that holiday sanity can come wrapped in an airplane ticket to a secondary or alternate airport. The trip can be even smoother if you choose to vacation in the alternate city as well. →

Sarah Palin’s Alaska? Or your Alaska?

11/16/10

Alaska is hoping the new TLC show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska" will be good for tourism. →

Universal access at airports: it could happen

09/16/10

My “At the Airport” column for USATODAY.com this month is about what airports and airlines are doing – or not – to make it easier for people with disabilities to make their way through airports. Researching the story was an educational and quite sobering experience. And as the column title says: Travelers with disabilities face →

1958 Airstream trailer gets university makeover

08/16/10

In May I took a little road trip to visit the RV Museum and Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Indiana for an msnbc.com story about the the RV industry: Celebrating 100 years on the road. So I was intrigued when I saw a story about the 26-foot 1958 Airstream Overlander trailer being gutted and re-modeled →

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