(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 […]
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 […]
Next week Sheraton Hotels and Resorts will be at JFK Airport Terminal 7 giving travelers prizes for their flight delays. From Monday, Dec. 21 through Thursday Dec. 24, Sheraton will invite travelers to scan their plane tickets at a “Delight my Delay” kiosk for a chance to convert their delayed minutes into prizes such as […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
Next week Sheraton Hotels and Resorts will be at JFK Airport Terminal 7 giving travelers prizes for their flight delays. From Monday, Dec. 21 through Thursday Dec. 24, Sheraton will invite travelers to scan their plane tickets at a “Delight my Delay” kiosk for a chance to convert their delayed minutes into prizes such as […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the past, flights have been delayed and airport runways closed by everything from weather, turtles on their way to lay eggs and a flamingo named Ringo. But on it’s Facebook page Monday, Boston Logan Airport alerted travelers that delays were being caused by a sailboat… An unmanned 37-foot sailboat broke free from its Winthrop […]