Lufthansa airplanes are parked on the tarmac at Frankfurt airport, Germany. Ralph Orlowski | Reuters Germany's flagship airline has been fined $4 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation over allegations it discriminated against a group of Jewish passengers. The regulator said Tuesday that Lufthansa had prohibited 128 people wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing from…
Nearly two-thirds of North American flyers (60% to be precise) report having "enjoyed spending time in their airport," according to the latest passenger satisfaction survey from J.D. Power. The baffling contentment of those travelers is evidently impervious to record passenger volume, widespread flight delays, and overpriced food and drink at airport stores and restaurants. For…
Some airlines are still struggling to reboot their service in the wake of last weekend's cataclysmic CloudStrike software shutdown. On Monday, Delta Air Lines was still limping its way back to the runways. The airline announced it had to cancel another 800 departures on the first workday of the week, bringing the total of scrapped…
Over the weekend, as airports in the northeastern U.S. endured another 1,300 flight cancellations, reports surfaced of a complex scam operation that has allegedly compromised Google search results. A Twitter user identifying himself as Shmuli Evers posted that the local phone number he was shown for Delta Air Lines via a Google search actually linked…
Now that recreational marijuana is permitted in nearly half of U.S. states and counting, a reasonable assumption might be that pot is legal to use on a cruise ship that boards in a state where cannabis is no longer outlawed. But that assumption is not correct, and this year Carnival Cruise Line has been vocal…
Heidi Sarna is the cofounder of QuirkyCruise.com, a guide to small-ship cruising. Having taken river cruises all over the world—Southeast Asia, India, Europe, and North America—I know their advantages well. Everything is intimate and close up, from the scenery along the riverbanks to the convenient layout of the ship. Your cabin will never be…
If there’s one thing most of us take for granted in boarding a commercial aircraft, it’s that the plane is headed where we expect it to go. If you’re flying from New York to Miami, it should be safe to assume the plane will land in South Florida. But in recent months there have been…
Sanford's small airport has Orlando in its name and flights from Allegiant Air and Sun Country Airlines, but it's twice as far from Walt Disney World as Orlando International (MCO).
A small airport an hour away from Walt Disney World has trademarked its name to associate itself…