The Ride
Reviews of getting to your destination from airplanes and airports to trains and train stations.
7 Ways How To Survive The Thanksgiving Travel Crunch
You Thought Traveling Home For Thanksgiving Last Year Was A Challenge? This Year is Set To Break Records With Millions Of People Flying And Driving Home For The Holidays Or Heading For Fun And Sun. Here’s How To Survive The Madness. by Heather Cassell Let the holiday craziness begin. Halloween is now in the rearview […]
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Workaholics United Airlines Wants To Send You On Vacation
United Airlines wants to give you or someone you nominate and a lucky plus one an excuse to run your toes through the sand and swim in tropical waters with an all-expense paid ultimate vacation to Tahiti.
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Southwest Airlines Announces New Technology Manager
Southwest Airlines announced Tammy Amirault as its new managing director of technology, enterprise management analytics earlier this month.
Tammy succeeded Sherry Staber, vice president of technology in enterprise management and technical operations. Sherry is retiring.
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Southwest Flight Tragedy Leaves An Angel And A Heroine
The Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was coming apart on one side due to an engine exploding, shattering a window and spraying shrapnel into the plane Tuesday, but Pilot Tammie Jo Shults was calm and steady.
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Cathay Pacific Flight Attendants Win Big Change In Uniform
“It is imperative that our customer-facing colleagues not only feel pride in wearing the Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon colors but that they also feel comfortable and empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities,” the airline’s executives said in a statement March 30.
“Now is the time to make this happen by working together to review the uniforms that accurately reflect the values we represent,” an unidentified representative of the airline founded in 1946 told the Business Insider.
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Taiwanese Trans Travelers Might Soon Get Passport Designation
More freedoms might be coming to Taiwan following last year’s Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling, now advocates and government officials are championing a third gender option on government-issued identification cards and passports, an official said Tuesday.
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Lucky Girl Gets Flight To Herself
“I got a whole plane to myself when I was accidentally booked on a flight just meant for moving crew,” she captioned her Reddit post Wednesday.
Blame it on the “bomb cyclone” hitting the East Coast and overworked airline agents scrambling to rebook passengers or just sheer dumb luck: She got a deal!
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Popular Tour Guide Killed in Devastating Costa Rica Plane Crash
American adventure tour guide Amanda Geissler was living her dream when her single-engine airplane slammed into the side of a mountain along in Costa Rica New Year’s Eve.
There were no survivors. Two American families and two pilots Juan Manuel Retana and Emma Ramos perished with Amanda in the Nature Air crash December 31.
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Why You Need To Book For 2018’s Holiday Season Now
Don’t be left out in the cold next Christmas or New Year’s Eve if you plan on spending the holidays anywhere other than at home.
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World’s Busiest Airport’s Day In The Dark, Flights To Resume
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Went Dark Sunday Afternoon Diverting And Grounding All Flights Causing Major Headaches For Travelers Around The World by Heather Cassell As darkness descended upon Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport the world stopped at the busiest airport in the world. The power outage affected more than 30,000 people. More than 1,000 departing flights […]
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SFO Gives The Gift Of Free Parking For The Holidays
SFO Tests A Potential Relief To Holiday Traffic At The International Airport by Heather Cassell Picking up and dropping off your friends and relatives at San Francisco International Airport became a little easier and a little less expensive earlier this week. Now until January 8, 2018 short-term parking will be free for 30-minutes or less […]
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American Airlines Tackles Diversity Issues With Massive Overhaul
American Airline employees will have to undergo mandatory anti-discrimination and ongoing implicit-bias training starting at the beginning of 2018, the airline announced.
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