There are now passengers' rights bills pending at various stages in the legislative process in more than a dozen states, and one that be...

Now, there is one thing you don't want to hear on an intercom over an airplane. That's when the pilot comes on and says, in that sig...

paxprotectionscomments-v7.pdf paxprotectionscomments-v7.pdf Reflecting growing concern in the airline industry that the federal government ...

Here's what airborne private-jet traffic looked like last year after the Super Bowl in Miami. Planes waited for hours at various general...

dot-insp-gen-fsept-25-07-stranded-flts.pdf dot-insp-gen-fsept-25-07-stranded-flts.pdf I’m a little late out of the gate getting this .pdf (...

State by state by state, while the airline industry's empty suit of a trade group harrumphs and plods along trying to pretend this is al...

I don't smoke, except maybe once a year when I might score a nice big Havana and I sit out back in the desert, acres away from anyone el...

Annus Horribilis is what the Queen of England, in a speech, called 1992 -- a year in which several of her goofy children got divorced, her f...

Two updates: --The much-anticipated Boeing 787 may not make it this year after all. The Wall Street Journal reported a further delay in prod...

My first "business-travel" experiences were in spending four years in the U.S. Navy, including one year on the ground in Saigon. I...

Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff , undoubtedly impressed by the total confusion the Department of Transportation unleashed on the t...

Above: Awaiting the Official Word while resisting the urge to speculate ... I know it's only 10 days after New Years, but we already hav...

Some swiftboat that was! The ludicrous characters of the scarily named Revelation Press have just announced their much-hyped "swiftboat...

...to quote the immortal lament of the long-suffering General Halftrack in the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip. Till yesterday, I was ...

As I have said here before, airlines have no one to blame but themselves for this. The New York State Passengers' Rights law took effect...

First off: Happy New Year. Here, incidentally, is how that ball-drop tradition in Times Square got started. And now to less festive matters...

Again today, I draw your attention to Chicago O'Hare, while most of the travel media are still running around clucking about Kennedy fli...

The only real business travel being done this week is by the poor devils running in primary elections in godforsaken places -- and the repor...

The airlines have plenty of nightmares beyond the obvious ones like $150 a barrel oil. One of them is the spreading trend in the states to a...

Keep your eye on United Airlines as the month runs out, especially if you're flying United, of course. United has been canceling a prett...