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It's that time of year when people begin to ask you, "What are your plans this summer?" So, what are your plans this summer? Will you be traveling? Or will you be embarking on the most beautiful travel plan of all, the one in which you vacation to your own home?
Amtrak, America's much-maligned railroad service, have given rail passengers a gift: upgraded WiFi on its very expensive Acela trains and will upgrade the rest of its trains by summer. But even the revamped Internet access won't be good enough to stream Netflix — and because we're brats, we'll still find this unacceptable.
It's really something: thorough federal advice for "LGBT individuals or families," even as the Supreme Court is on the verge of taking up the Defense of Marriage Act. This is progress, people.
We learned today the good news that planes don't crash when pilots fall asleep or lose consciousness. But yeah, the news that pilots are falling asleep and or losing consciousness doesn't exactly have us itching for our next flight.
China now has the fastest, longest bullet train in the world. Why don't we?
No rest for the campaign weary: Obama is traveling about 5,300 miles today with attempts to win over voters in Iowa, Colorado, a stop in California to talk to Jay Leno, then a stop in Las Vegas before an overnight trip to Florida.
The Roman police force is on the lookout for defiers of the law, the law being: Eating and drinking at historic sites. Thou shalt not do it, capisce?
It appears that TSA agents at Seattle-Tacoma Airport were convinced Michelle Dunaj, a woman dying of leukemia, meant to do them harm, which is why they did things like ruin her medicine and lift her shirt to show them her feeding tubes.
With the crowds and the rules and the funny smell, we can all agree that airports can be pretty horrible places. But that doesn't give you a free pass to be a horrible person.
It's baby apartheid, and it could be your best shot at getting some peace and quiet on an 8-hour red eye.
For bad fliers, landing on a runway usually means it's okay to unlock their white-knuckle grips on the armrests and breathe at a normal pace. But a report from The New York Times explains why planes are still in danger after they land.
Here's your travel horror story for the day: Air France Flight 562 had to make an unexpected stop in Damascus, Syria, and as if unexpectedly landing in a war-torn country isn't alarming enough, the airline then checked if its passengers had enough cash to pay for fuel.
You're probably asking yourself how an airport could run out of something like that. Well, it's lot more simple than the process of refueling the darn thing.
Three college friends are driving around the world in a London Black Cab they've named Hannah. But it's not the first time someone's taken a cab a surprisingly non-cab-like distance.
In your infuriating travel story of the day, there's news of dozens of Continental Airlines' supposedly nonstop transatlantic flights stopping for fuel and causing headaches delays for thousands of travelers all because the company wants to save money.
For many Americans, traveling under TSA's rules are bad enough, and then there's the special kind of torture reserved for those people whose careers make traveling with knives and scissors absolutely necessary.
Four planes filled with around 700 passengers were ran out of water and working toilets after being abandoned on the tarmac at Connecticut's Bradley International Airport for more than seven hours.
The rough version of flight search shouldn't have competitors too worried
Stressed and sleep-deprived business travelers tend to pack on the pounds
We go through the differences Google highlights
Cartoonist Tony Auth on the presidential hopeful's Grecian cruise
After finding rodent waste on board, the FDA warns the carrier to clean its planes better
Two British airports have become the first in the world to create holographic projections of their staff
Twitter hates it, like the rest of us
John Tyner bravely fought back against creepy TSA body scans
Adventure! Intrigue! Breakfast burritos!
Also, New York ranks in there somewhere
Steven Slater curses us out, captures our hearts
Andrew Breitbart decries a lapse in airport security: a military blogger refuses to answer questions at the border, gets cuffed
The Department of Transportation cracks down on airlines stranding passengers for hours on end
Many observers say no. But that doesn't mean the country's airports were safe to begin with.
Snapshots of stress, delays, and disappointments as Americans head home for Thanksgiving
A writer's Roman holiday is marred by English profanity
A computer glitch is causing flight delays across the country. How are stranded travelers reacting?
The pilots claim they overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles because of their laptops, but columnists don't buy it
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