Tagged: plane

The 10 Best (and Cheapest) Airfare Search Sites for 2026

It’s been a decade since Frommer’s started pitting the biggest airfare search engines, aggregators, and booking engines against one another. In 10 years, the only constants have been…

The U.S. Hasn't Fully Tested Airline Evacuations in Years. Experts are Alarmed.

This year of aviation started ominously on January 2 with the fiery runway collision between Japan Airlines Flight 516 and a military aircraft in Tokyo. Five died on the Coast Guard…

Yes, You Can Survive a Plane Crash: Tips from a Longtime Safety Expert

By now, we’ve all seen coverage of the horrific runway collision at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on January 2. Five crew members on one aircraft were killed, but despite the conflagration…

Walt Disney's Private Corporate Plane, "Mickey Mouse One," Goes on Public Display in Palm Springs

This unlikely homecoming was more than a half century in the making.The private corporate plane purchased by Walt Disney in 1963, has gone on public display at the Palm Springs Air…

American Airlines Makes In-Flight TV Free

Looks like JetBlue and Virgin America have finally forced the monolithic major carriers to up their games. A few months ago, Delta finally recognized one of the things passengers…

Airfares to Asia Dropping Below Those to Europe In Many Cases, and From the East Coast, No Less

When is a sale not a sale? When it actually just reflects the going rates, but in a, well, louder fashion.That's seems to be the case with Emirate Airlines current "deal" to Kuala…

Wheels Not Wings: Three Tools To Help You Plan Better Bus, Train and Car Trips

With the cost of airfare going up, up and away, many vacationers will be traveling closer to the ground this summer. If you’re one of them, here are three websites that could make…

Park of the Week: Rocky Mountain National Park

With over 416 square miles of granite-based wilderness, the Rocky Mountain National Park offers you 60 mountains over 12,000 feet high (the tallest is Longs Peak, at 14,259 feet),…

Celebrating Life on the Day of the Dead in Oaxaca, Mexico

Mexico's annual celebration of the Day of the Dead is the most vibrant, colorful and culturally dynamic event in the country's calendar of events. If you are lucky enough to be…

Dinosaur Digging and Fossil Finding Trips

If you've ever seen the face of a three year old running through New York's Museum of Natural History's fourth floor, then you will know just how fascinated children are by dinosaurs…

Digging in at Jamaican Resorts: Getting Back to Nature Never Tasted So Good

In much of the industrialized world and the tourist spots its inhabitants frequent, "Where'd this food come from?" is a complicated question. No matter how good the meal tastes, the…