While driving on Highway SH75 on my way from a pleasant stay in the coastal city of Sarandë to my eventual destination of Ohrid in North Macedonia, I stopped to admire the view of Vjosa River Bend in Albania. Vjosa Wild River National Park is... The post Vjosa River Bend in Albania....

A lawsuit filed against Southwest Airlines blames the carrier’s famous decades-old group boarding process and non-assigned seating policy for a horrendous sexual assault perpetrated against a 16-year-old boy by a registered pedophile on one of its flights. The incident dates back to July 2022, although a lawsuit has only now...

A Breeze Airways passenger who made an inflight bomb threat after just breaking up with his girlfriend has been sentenced to two years in federal prison after being found guilty of maliciously making a bomb threat on a commercial airliner. Evan Sims, 41, of Rhode Island, has been held in...

United Airlines has just updated its policy for all flight attendants, and the union is claiming that this is a blatant violation of the current contract (thanks to @xJonNYC for flagging this).

On the same day that United Airlines, along with most of the rest of the aviation industry, was still suffering from the crippling effects of a global IT outage, the airline sent out a new sickness policy to its flight attendants, threatening them with termination if they are sick on...

Starting today, and until further notice, United Airlines requires a doctor's note from any flight attendant calling in sick from duty on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. They note that sick calls have increased over summer weekends by as much as 23% and they believe cabin crew are misusing...

I think this situation is a good reminder that things aren’t always as they seem…

Early Friday morning, we saw a major global IT outage, impacting all kinds of industries, including many airlines. In the United States, all of the ”big three” US carriers — American, Delta, and United — were impacted by this. What’s interesting to see is how inconsistent the recovery has been...

One of my goals this year was to help my parents travel more, and better. We crossed off a pair of crusies for them earlier in the year, but now we have an important one that’s been on the list for awhile.  If you are considering booking travel or signing up for...

Welcome to our weekly list of what’s ending this week as well as a collection of some other deals that are due to end soon. Deals are ending nearly every day this week. Ending soonest is an opportunity to book round trip business class tickets to Paris for only $2,000 on...

Hertz Gold Plus Rewards is out with a new promotion that awards 950 bonus points after every 2+ day rental made with Hertz. Those 950 points are good for one free rental day and it can be earned up to three times with this promotion. Please note the bonus points...

I spotted two signs at the gate which Turkish Airways used for the departure of a flight to İstanbul after I arrived at the airport in New York. For this edition of this popular game, can you guess what... The post What Is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 258 appeared first on...

WARNING: If you’re serious about your Walt Disney World fandom and can’t appreciate some dark humor when the Magic Kingdom is the topic, then by all means, PLEASE skip this…

A possible path to cheap Star Alliance Gold, how to book Qatar First Class at the business class price and the Olympics are cratering the demand for hotels in Paris. All that and more in this week’s Saturday Selection, our weekly round-up of interesting tidbits from around the interwebs (links...

Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chair of Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – the committee that oversees DOT and that drafted the FAA Reauthorization Act language which created these slots – didn’t just write the law that created new slots at Washington’s National airport. She didn’t just draft language that virtually assigns...

Southwest Airlines was largely unaffected by the CrowdStrike update yesterday (more here) that crippled… The post Southwest Was Not Impacted Yesterday Because It’s Running Such An Old Version of Windows appeared first on The Bulkhead Seat.

The PISEN charging hub allows you to charge all your devices including smart watches, laptops and anything else. It's on Kickstarter and you have about a week left to ...

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend so far! I’m at home spending time with family between trips. I got back from Europe a bit over a week ago, but then ended up getting a cold, so have been recovering ever since. I have a bit over a week...

Most flight attendants are kind or at least polite. But what do they really think of you? What Flight Attendants Really Think Of You And Your Demands A flight attendant posting under the handle “We Hate You” recently left the following comment on a story I wrote about flight attendants...

The world of tips and gratuities becomes more unnecessarily convoluted by the day. This is how I'm making sense of it right now. The post On Tipping – How I Navigate the Complex World of Gratuities appeared first on Miles to Memories.

A Southwest Boeing 737-8 MAX came within 150 feet of Tampa Bay as it attempted to land at Tampa International Airport in bad weather. The post Southwest 737 Comes Within 150 Feet of Tampa Bay Causeway appeared first on ATX Jetsetter.

A Marriott Ambassador member, who spends over 100 nights and $23,000 a year with the chain, reports returning to their room to find housekeeping there – and the cleaner brought her boyfriend. Continue reading Shocked Marriott Ambassador Guest Finds Housekeeper’s Boyfriend in Room: 30,000 Points an Insult?...

As Joe wrote a while back, we’ve never flown on Ryanair (mainly because I won’t let him book a flight on them. The same holds true for all the ultra…