I love the Acela.  If you’ve taken the Acela, you love it to.  It is everything travel should be – comfortable, convenient and (at least for the U.S.’ non-high-speed-rail lines) fast.  There are plugs at every seats.  Seats have more than ample legroom.  You are not molested upon boarding.  You can arrive 1 minute before [...]

A Delta Connection flight from Rochester (NY) to Atlanta was canceled last week after two flight attendants got into a fight that was either verbal (according to the airline) or involved punches (according to a passenger).  Pinnacle Airlines, which operates the route as Delta Connection, said that the brouhaha occurred after a passenger became ill [...]

An air marshal on a Continental flight from Amsterdam to Houston (there are still air marshals?  good to know…) intervened after a boisterous passenger inappropriately touched the woman sitting next to him.  The air marshal switched seats with the woman, an act that did not make the original passenger particularly happy, causing him to start [...]

Is there anyone online who does NOT give frequent flyer advice?  No, no there is not.  And let’s be honest, 98% of what you read about booking airline tickets is utter and complete garbage (Gary and Lucky excepted, of course). I know there are 10 things to be true about booking award tickets and today [...]

A Ryanair flight from Bristol, England, to the Canary Island of Lanzarote landed in a different Canary Island – Fuerteventura – after bad weather prevented the plane from landing at the scheduled arrival city.  That’s no big deal.  What was a big deal was that Ryanair told passengers they had to make their own way [...]

American Airlines and Spirit Airlines have announced that they will be returning to Haiti, with American’s first flight heading in today, and Spirit returning on February 24th.  American serves the island from JFK, Ft Lauderdale,  and Miami, and will be launching service from San Juan and the Dominican Republic. If you were wondering, AA’s flights [...]

For who knows what reason, Forbes.com has published a little essay I wrote about eating alone on business trips.  You can read it here.
(Glad to see they did not retouch my eyebrows in the accompanying photo…)

I apologize in advance to wherever I found this first (I can’t remember)…
Feel free to waste the next 10 minutes trying to guess the Top 50 flight destinations from JFK.  You’re given the distance, direction and number of passengers, and you’ve got 10 minutes to fill it out.  FWIW, I got 43.  Good luck.

Much has been written about Southwest Airlines’ overweight passenger policy which forces customers who cannot sit in a seat with armrests lowered to purchase two seats.  You may have thought this only applied to regular, non-celebrity fat people  Well, you’re wrong:
Clerks director Kevin Smith was unceremoniously kicked off a Southwest flight from Oakland to Burbank [...]

There has been a great deal of whining about American Airlines’ decision to institute a $50 standby fee (essentially putting it on par with other airlines).  Boo hoo.  As I’ve mentioned before:  Airfares are basically the same as they have been since 1981 – not adjusted for inflation, I mean they are actually the same.  [...]