Missing luggage, missing flights, and, in many cases, missing Christmas: these are all pains Southwest Airlines customers endured over the past week. Many are calling out Southwest for its unprecedented volume of flight cancellations, including U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg,…
Recently TAS published my article, “Mach Miracles: The Joy of Commercial Supersonic Flight.” Therein I speculated as to when such service might return. A new announcement by Boom Supersonic, as reported by CNN, may advance the date for regular supersonic…
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Alex Padilla of California recently asked the Department of Transportation to fine airlines for delays and cancellations and prevent airline consolidation. The widespread delays and cancellations are indeed annoying, but the senators’ demands…
Let’s begin with a major boost the flying public received in 1976, albeit a privilege enjoyed by a tiny fraction of fortunate flyers: the first commercial regular service on an SST (supersonic transport). The Concorde was a joint venture of…
Paris is not worth visiting. When you get there, you will have the distinct feeling of having been there before. Those people who spend all day uploading pictures of France on social networks are to blame. I understood just how…
A recent newspaper article lamented the end of what it called the “Golden Age of Travel” having ended with the pandemic, airport, and train station chaos, and soaring costs: Just imagine a world in which, almost overnight, the transport system…
I’m looking for a guy I may have left without offspring. It happened a few weeks ago. It was on one of those flights to which I seem to be treating myself quite a lot recently, from Madrid to Galicia,…
At the turn of the last century, cars were made to order, one at a time. “Body by Fisher” — some will remember — meant literally that. The body was made by Fisher, which began as a builder of coaches…
Finally able to take my first post-lockdown trip abroad, I booked a ticket from my nearest international airport, Oslo, to my longtime default holiday destination, Amsterdam. I had no agenda; I just wanted a change of scenery. At the airport…
As U.S. tourists return to the international skies and waters following two years in a COVID cocoon, they will be selective about where they spend their hard-earned dollars. Countries with flexible COVID screening protocols and seamless access to cultural and…
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