The Challenges of Air Travel With Children

June 2nd, 2009, No Comments

Everyone loves a family vacation but traveling with children can be challenging, especially if air travel is involved in getting to your vacation destination. Lugging all the extra “stuff” that children need can be a drag and even on short flights any child is bound to get bored so you…

Christmas Weather Always Causes Travel Chaos

December 10th, 2008, No Comments

Sometimes it sounds like the newspapers send their journalists on Christmas vacation early and just recycle the headlines from the previous year: there are always a bunch of strikes and even more reliably terrible weather that makes traveling over the Christmas week a bit of a nightmare.

This time round we’ve…

Virgin Flies Green to Reduce Carbon Footprint

November 10th, 2008, No Comments

A lot of the talk in travel circles at the moment is about reducing carbon emissions and this is particularly true when you consider flying. The recent trend of donating some money to offset your own carbon emissions when you travel somewhere demonstrates that plenty of travelers are aware of…

Less Passport Stamps in Europe

July 10th, 2008, No Comments

Traveling around through Europe is about to get even easier and quicker when the Schengen Zone expands on Friday. The down side is you’ll get less stamps in your passport, but the big bonus is there’ll be a lot less waiting at border crossings.

What does it all mean? The Schengen…

Flight Delays the Norm in the UK, but BMI Flies Punctually

June 10th, 2008, No Comments

There’s probably no particular country around the world where travelers are blessed with consistently punctual airline departures – but if there is, please me about it and I’ll move there right away!

This week in the news there has been plenty of discussion about the punctuality of flight departures in Britain,…

Most Ridiculous Airline Fees

March 20th, 2008, Comments Off

Bag Fees: Fellow clotheshorses beware: In an attempt to curtail the weight of excess baggage, airlines have instituted now-infamous luggage fees. A single checked bag is often gratis, but a second will run you around $25. Worse, a third costs an average of $100. These days it’s best to roll your…

Being Prepared to Grab the Cheapest Airfares

March 10th, 2008, No Comments

So you want to fly around Europe on the cheap, or hop from Singapore to Thailand and back through Indonesia? There are so many budget airlines these days that can make your worldwide vacations incredibly cheap, but you have to do your homework and be prepared. Here are some tips…

Are Travel Agents A Good Idea?

March 3rd, 2008, No Comments

To use a travel agent or not? About ten years ago airlines stopped giving travel agents a commission for using their services. Of course the agents wanted to recoup this loss and you were often charged a small fee, generally around $25, to have them book your flights.

This was actually…

Did You Know Flying is Getting Safer?

February 10th, 2008, No Comments

Good news for travelers – especially anxious ones – comes as the statistics get added up for 2007. Whether you knew it or not, such an office as the Aircraft Crashes Record Office exists, and over in Geneva they’ve been busily calculating the figures for the air crashes during 2007 .

For…

Heathrow Airport Drops the One Bag Rule

January 30th, 2008, No Comments

If you’ve traveled in and out of the United Kingdom recently, you might have been caught by the one bag rule that was applied in airports in August 2006. Unlike pretty much everywhere else in the world, where air passengers are usually allowed to carry two bags on to an…