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What to expect for holiday travel

What to expect for holiday travel

11/19/23
(This is a shortened version of a story we first wrote for NBC News) This year’s post-pandemic travel boom is continuing into the holidays. Nearly half (48%) of Americans plan to travel between Thanksgiving and mid-January, up from 31% last winter, a recent Deloitte survey found. AAA expects 55.4 million travelers to venture at least 50 miles from home during the […]

FAA Outage Causes Flight Delays & Disruption

01/11/23
Late Tuesday evening, an essential piece of the aviation transportation network operated by the Federal Aviation Administration failed. And because of that the FAA temporarily grounded all flights nationwide on Wednesday morning. The ground stop was lifted by 8:50 am east coast time. But the fallout included more than 1,300 canceled flights and close to […]

Stuck at … IAH Airport

07/17/15
Travel enough and you’ll have one of those days when a short flight delay turns into a long one. Then that long delay turns into an unreasonably long one. And then the airline informs you that, contrary to what the mechanics have been saying for the past three or four hours, the airplane you’ve been […]

Bad day for Alaska Airlines

10/09/12
We all know how irritating it is when our the internet signal goes down in our home or office. Magnify that feeling times a bazillion and you probably won’t be anywhere near what Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air and their customers across the country had to deal with when the the connection to the ticketing system […]