Category: Travel

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE The theft and crash of an empty commuter plane by an airline worker in Seattle on Friday revealed a security vulnerability that authorities have known about for decades, a former top transportation official said Sunday. John Pistole, a […]

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE LISBON, Portugal — The blistering heat and extreme weather currently gripping Europe may leave the continent’s historic cities and Mediterranean beaches less bustling in the summers to come, experts say. Rising temperatures will affect how people plan their […]

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Five people were killed Sunday when a small plane trying to make an emergency landing crashed in a busy shopping center parking lot in Southern California, authorities said. The twin-engine Cessna went down at about 12:30 p.m. PT […]

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Passengers who walked away from the fiery Aeroméxico crash are thankful to be alive but a safety expert on Wednesday said it was “no accident” that everyone aboard the jet survived. The aircraft attempted to take off in […]

What’s going on here? Most of the well-known online travel agencies are owned by just two companies Expedia (Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotels.com, Hotwire) and Booking Holdings, formerly Priceline Group (Agoda, Booking.com, Kayak, Priceline). Checkbook believes this lack of competition hurts consumers. Expedia and Booking Holdings disagree. They say they are simply online marketers who display […]

“There are several reasons why some people are drawn to a nude vacation,” says Dr. Sanam Hafeez, a neuropsychologist based in New York City. “Some people have routine lives. They wake up, go to work, work, return home, and have this secure outward persona. They also have another side to themselves that wants to be […]

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Fliers may have a tough time recovering damages for invasive screenings at airport security checkpoints, after a federal appeals court on Wednesday said screeners are immune from claims under a federal law governing assaults, false arrests and other […]

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE A Colorado woman is suing United Airlines for allegedly failing to protect her from an off-duty FedEx pilot she says touched her sexually three times during a flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco. The claim, filed in […]

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that even though America’s collective waistline is expanding, airlines are free to keep putting passenger room on a diet. The agency was responding to a legal challenge by the group FlyersRights, which […]