Commentary

In late 2001, I started penning op-ed columns about travel and sending them to newspaper editorial pages. In 2002, USA Today invited me to join its board of contributors (but later uninvited me after I wrote a column that criticized one of its advertisers). The feature has endured, and now appears occasionally here and in many other newspapers.

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• » US Airways ends with you

• » Waiting for Frances

• » More fees, please

• » Serving itself

• » Facts that don't fly

• » Paying for their mistakes

• » Travelers behaving badly

• » Take air rage to the polls

• » Dumbing down travelers

• » Defusing a travel tax bomb

• » Roaches: We're 'reluctant activists'

• » Rental customers 'have no clue'

• » More data, safe skies

• » TSA: Security is 'everybody's business'

• » Safe and sorry

• » Mile-high madness

• » Airline bumping addicts

• » New airline, new ideas

• » Give loyalty programs a lift

• » Kill first class

• » Poof! There goes your vacation

• » Is less more?

• » Summer squeeze

• » Car rentals on the skids

• » Sex, lies and the Caribbean

• » Cruise lines need an overhaul

• » No point in collecting miles?

• » Airline axis of evil

• » Let foreign airlines fly in U.S.

• » TSA needs your help

• » Lighten up

• » Canvassing Key Largo

• » A Southwest solution?

• » Bravo, America West

• » Flying the funny skies

• » Will road warriors return?

• » Try cargo

• » 9/11 saved business travel

• » Thanks for nothing

• » That's the Spirit

• » A summer of surcharges

• » Taking aim at the wrong target

• » Flying high

• » Something for nothing

• » Size does matter

• » Hotel fee relapse

• » Have we learned nothing?

• » A great summer for travel?

• » Should tax pay for blunder?

• » Save US Airways

• » Kill the TSA

• » Flying shotgun

• » Untrustworthy fliers

• » Phantom fare hikes

• » Pull the plug on Orbitz

• » False forecasts

• » Send the TSA packing

• » Less is more

• » Sharpen the profile

• » A profit surcharge?

• » What is the point?

• » Flying for fun and profit

• » Pursers or peacekeepers?

• » Come on ride the train

• » Our new air travel rights

• » Will tax boost safety?

• » Go ahead, take the money

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• » Should we nationalize travel?

• » Ads won't cure travel fatigue