If there is one qualification United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby can safely add to his resume, it’s “woke.” On Thursday, a 2010 video of Kirby performing drag at a U.S. Airways Halloween party went viral after it was posted by…
As August comes to an end, many are forced to face the second-worst thing about a vacation: packing for the return trip. The first worst thing is packing for the outbound trip. The suitcase is an odious modern invention. It…
Summer travel season is about to ramp up, putting significant pressure on America’s airline industry. However, airlines are already feeling the heat of the Biden administration, caught squarely in the crosshairs of its zealous “big is bad” approach to competition…
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…