The airline crash survival rate is better than you might think. Technology has improved, but human behavior must too, says an industry authority.
By now, we’ve all seen coverage of the horrific runway collision at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on January 2. Five crew members on one aircraft…
A medical emergency occurs in the skies about once every 600 flights, according to a study that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. The most common maladies are fainting, respiratory problems, heart trouble, and nausea or vomiting. The study found that it's rare for an in-flight emergency to end in death, but the…
I've been traveling for years, and in my unscientific opinion, the worst part of long flights isn't adjusting to the time difference. It's that they deprive you of sleep. Jet lag can be a bulldozer that flattens you for your first two days of vacation, wasting precious, hard-earned time. After cumulatively spending many weeks…