Flights

Is there another way to get where you’re going other than the most obvious route? Can you find a cheap flight to somewhere nearby instead using an alternative airport? Often the answer is yes, and it can save you a small fortune if you’re a bit flexible. I pull this trick several times a year …

“Return ticket please,” the gate agent said when I approached to board my flight from Mexico to Costa Rica.  “But I have your annual pass,” I told the Volaris agent. I can only book a flight back three days or less in advance.  “You can’t board without a return ticket,” she said, falsely telling me …

In one of those strange twists of frequency, Alaska has come up in three travel conversations I’ve had this past week and one podcaster I was listening to was talking about how it was the state in North America he still hadn’t been but wanted to so he was making plans. It feels like a …

A travel industry friend recently asked a question on Facebook about which airline his friends thought was “the best.” When you removed the answers influenced by loyalty status perks, it was a pretty short list: Southwest and Alaska Air in the USA, Emirates, Qatar Airlines, and Singapore Airlines internationally. If he had really wanted to …

Baby it’s cold outside. In some places anyway. But not in the tropics. Not in Baja. Not in most places near the equator. So you could get on a plane and be somewhere sunny and warm in a few hours. You could look at cheap flights to warm places and plan your getaway accordingly.  If …