The Ride

Reviews of getting to your destination from airplanes and airports to trains and train stations.

Qatar Airways (Photo: Courtesy of Qatar Airways)

Plane Makes Emergency Landing Due to Hysterical Cheated Woman

Qatar Airways was forced into an emergency landing mid-way to Bali, Indonesia in India after a drunk woman discovered her husband was cheating on her and became hysterical Sunday.

The unidentified woman allegedly secretly used her sleeping husband’s finger to unlock his phone where she discovered he was cheating on her.

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Grounded flights due to heatwave striking the West, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (Photo: ROBYN BECK, AFP/Getty Images)

Heatwave Causes Last Minute Delays In The West

Scorching sun grounds some planes between San Francisco International Airport and Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport as temperatures rise upward to 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

Passengers said if you ever wanted to feel like a lobster in a pot the past two days were the days.

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Alaska Airlines extends elite status to new parents. (Photo: Courtesy of Revista Na Mochila)

Alaska Airlines Extends Elite Status For Parents

All it took was a new mother asking Alaska Airlines to extend her Elite Status for a year.

Alaska Airlines said yes officially changing its rules making it the first North American airline to make concessions for new parents May 4.

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Alaska Airlines (Photo: Alaska Airlines )

Airlines Flying High In The Sky With Customer Satisfaction

Perhaps it’s a silver lining in the skies for embattled airlines. A customer satisfaction survey found that customer satisfaction with airlines has reached its highest level ever.

Customer satisfaction has been trending upward for five years now for North American airlines, according to researchers who published their findings in the J.D. Power 2017 North America Airline Satisfaction Study published May 10.

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Park free and Fly to Europe at Oakland International Airport. (Photo: Courtesy of Herald Land)

Park And Fly To Europe Free At Oakland International Airport

Oakland International Airport Promotes New Flights To Europe With Free Parking Offer by Heather Cassell It might be a great time to fly to Europe. Summer vacation is right around the corner. There’s another reason, at least for gallivanting residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland International Airport just announced free parking to travelers […]

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Lead Passenger Service Agent Presad Rennie For American’s Regional Carrier Envoy Gains Angel And Hero Status For Saving A Baby (Photo: Courtesy of American Airlines)

American Airlines Bestows Hero Award To Presad Rennie

Envoy Lead Passenger Service Agent Presad Rennie didn’t think twice when she saw a toddler gasping for air and someone called out, “Does anyone know the Heimlich maneuver?”

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Unidentified woman and her two children speaking with the American Airlines’ captain during Friday’s incident where a flight attendant allegedly nearly struck her child and her with their stroller while boarding a flight from San Francisco International to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. (Photo: Facebook)

American Airlines Reacts Swiftly To Baby Stroller Incident

American Airlines launched an investigation and suspended the flight attendant accused of nearly hitting an infant with a stroller sending its mother into hysterical crying Friday, April 21.

Part of the incident was caught on video and posted to Facebook by Surain Adyanthaya with the caption: “OMG! AA Flight attendant violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby,” she captioned the clip.

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Delta One, first class flying on Delta Air Lines. (Photo: Courtesy of Delta Air Lines )

It’s A Whole Other World Flying Delta One

Girls That Roam Recently Experienced A First Class Flight to London Aboard Delta One And Learned Perhaps It’s The Only Way To Take To The Air When Going Abroad by Heather Cassell & Super G If flying first class is on your bucket list, definitely bump it up toward the top of your list, especially […]

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Checking out at FlightCar in San Bruno, California. (Photo: Super G)

FlightCar Shutters Doors Proving Sharing Isn’t For Everyone

It was a great idea. Rent out your car while you’re away on vacation or a business trip rather than allow your car to collect dust and rack up parking fees at the airport. When you returned from your trip your car was detailed, filled up with gas, and you made a little chump change.

That was FightCar’s business model.

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Katie Thompson, so-to-be former general counsel of the Department of Transportation. (Photo: Courtesy of the Department of Transportation)

Visionary DOT General Counsel Steps Down

Katie Thompson, general counsel of the Department of Transportation, is set to step down from her position at the end of May.

During her tenure as one of President Barack Obama’s original appointees to the DOT she negotiated key deals winning her praise from her colleagues.

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Australia’s Qantas Airlines is number one for the third year in a row for AirlineRatings.com’s annual airline safety survey. (Photo: Courtesy of AdelaideNow)

Top 20 Safest Airlines In The World + 10 Budget Airlines To Trust

Set Your Nerves At Ease In The Sky Booking With These Airlines by Heather Cassell I might be unusual, but I don’t worry much about flying. I worry more every day with the crazy drivers on the freeway. However, for the rest of the 3.6 billion people on 34 million flights last year that squeeze […]

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San Francisco MUNI's new app (Photo: www.sfgate.com)

San Francisco’s MUNI Mobile App Has Some Bumps In The Road For Visitors

Checking into San Francisco this week, I checked out the new MuniMobile app and found that it’s easy to use for the most part, but some might find it confusing and frustrating if not limiting.

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