Travel
American Airlines Files for Chapter 11
America’s third largest airline has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. American Airlines—and its parent company AMR Eagle Holding Corp.—cited high fuel costs and labor issues […]
First Class Gets Classier
The New York Times reports that first class is only going to get classier: Airlines, “engaged in a global battle for top executives and the […]
Pennsylvania Newlyweds Die In Hawaii Helicopter Crash
A couple from Pennsylvania—along with two other passengers and a pilot—died when a tourist helicopter crashed on Molokai island. The couple from Pennsylvania were newlyweds […]
What D.C. Has That Philly Doesn’t: Greedy Government
Last weekend I went to visit my kids at their college in D.C. If you haven’t visited lately, the city is quite the vision to […]
Your Brother Is Your Keeper, And Your Cook: Buleleng to Lake Poso
Yesterday, we had Part 1 of Trey Popp’s adventures in Sulawesi–a continuation of the story he began in this month’s Revisit column about the idiosyncratic […]
Making Some Noise On the Amtrak Quiet Car
It’s not often that a news story moves me to stand up at my desk and applaud, but the tale of Lakeysha Beard inspired a […]
Airlines Should Have a “Pet Class” on Planes
I really want to travel by private jet, but not for the reasons you’d think. I’m not after the champagne and shrimp cocktails, no lineups […]
Let Us Now Praise Southwest Airlines
I have a daughter who attends college in Boston. Two years ago, when we started the college search process, we scheduled a flight to Boston […]
Even In Mexico, You Can’t Escape Philly Drama
As blizzards were shutting down Philadelphia a little more than a week ago, I was sitting in a bar in Mexico, wearing flip-flops and shorts […]
Johnny Depp at Your Nearest TSA Pat-Down
Lots of people are upset about airport security measures these days. And for good reason, I suppose. Seems to me that the arguments are threefold: […]
Pat-Down Protests? Scanner Showdowns?
“What do you and a catfish have in common? You’re both scum-sucking bottom-feeders.” And that was the nicest, most printable comment Freindly Fire received after […]
Don’t Like Airport Scanners?
When both sides in a negotiation refuse to budge, the impasse is usually detrimental to both parties. With that in mind, perhaps I can be […]
TSA Makes Air Travel Seem Like Bad Reality TV
When the Secretary of State says she wouldn’t want to be felt up at an airport, you know something’s about to blow at the TSA. […]
National Opt-Out Protest Against TSA Screenings Is Not the Answer
You can define a society by what it cares about, by what provokes its people to rise to action. Righteous protests of the past have […]
When Will We Have Real Airline Security?
Three…two…one…takeoff. The F-16 fighter jet piloted by Lt. Col. Kevin Kelly of the New Jersey Air National Guard’s 177th Fighter Wing —with me aboard — […]