(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 […]
The first ‘stewardesses’ on airplanes also had to be registered nurses. In 1930, Boeing Air Transport Office – which later became United Airlines – was only hiring male pilots. But Ellen Church, a registered nurse with a pilot’s license, wanted to fly. So she convinced the airline to test out having nurses on board to […]
StuckatTheAirport.com is usually about airports and airplanes. But a new joint campaign between the London and Paris tourism bureaus and the folks at Eurostar is aimed at reminding travelers that is much easier, much faster and sometimes pretty darn cheap to get between London and Paris on the train. I tried it out this […]
(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 […]
The first ‘stewardesses’ on airplanes also had to be registered nurses. In 1930, Boeing Air Transport Office – which later became United Airlines – was only hiring male pilots. But Ellen Church, a registered nurse with a pilot’s license, wanted to fly. So she convinced the airline to test out having nurses on board to […]
StuckatTheAirport.com is usually about airports and airplanes. But a new joint campaign between the London and Paris tourism bureaus and the folks at Eurostar is aimed at reminding travelers that is much easier, much faster and sometimes pretty darn cheap to get between London and Paris on the train. I tried it out this […]