Flying

I started this blog about budget travel and traveling well for less way back in 2003. It’s celebrating its 20th birthday now. I’ve gotten a lot of questions in that time in comments, by e-mail, and on social media. Many of them are airplane questions or about airlines. I also see a lot of these …

There’s no shortage of advice articles on the web about how to fly somewhere and then miraculously have no jet lag, but that’s a promise that’s hard to achieve. As a guy who has been traveling frequently since the early 1990s, I can say from experience that this pesky malady is something that’s tough to …

Every time I take a flight that’s not on Southwest, I’m still amazed at the cluster%#@k we’re putting up with every time with carry-on luggage in the cabin. But the airlines make most of their profits from add-on fees in this current race to the bottom, so we’re probably permanently stuck with this inefficient luggage …

When I returned from a conference a couple weeks ago, it took me ten hours to get from Cancun to Leon/Guanajuato in the middle of Mexico. Mechanical problems got us kicked off the plane as we were ready to take off in Mexico City and we sat around the airport for hours. I got a …