Airline passengers brace for the big summer squeeze
The start of the summer travel season is only a few weeks away, but people in the know have already identified the most pressing problem: dangerously cramped airline seats.
ECONOMY CLASS
Comfort hacks for flights that cramp your style
Air travel can be a humiliating, dehumanizing and even torturous experience — at least according to my e-mail inbox.
Maybe first class passengers aren’t so special after all
One piece of conventional wisdom has gone unchallenged during our ongoing debate about class, privilege and human dignity in air travel: that the elites sitting in the big seats are subsidizing everyone else’s low fares.
It’s time to kill economy class
Airlines are considering a new class of service — and I use the term “class” loosely — called economy “minus.”
Delta Economy “Comfort” fell short — can we get a refund?
Rod and Carol Mourant recently flew from Seattle. Amid their list of complaints is one that stuck, and do they have a case?
Who benefits the most from your airline affinity card? (That’s not a trick question)
Hey buddy, wanna sign up for a credit card?
Pay a seat reservation fee — or your kids don’t fly with you
Being separated from your family while you’re traveling is every child’s worst nightmare. Every parent’s, too.
Bitten by bugs on my Delta Air Lines flight to New York
Patricia Sweeney says she suffered multiple bug bites on a recent Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to New York. “The bites were most likely bed bugs or fleas,” she says. “I had a severe reaction to them and developed an infection.”
This case can’t be solved: They charged $5,900 for a one-way ticket in economy class to fly to my mother’s funeral
Walk-up fares are some of the most flexible — and pricey — airline tickets. But corner any airline employee at a party, and they’ll admit these super-high, unrestricted fares, which are purchased at the last minute, are meant to be paid by business travelers on an expense account.