What to drive this summer
It isn’t too soon to think about what you’ll be driving this summer. For Alan Monaco, that’s an easy decision: He and his wife, Stephanie, will take their GMC Yukon Denali to the Jersey Shore.
Christopher Elliott
Whose armrest is it, anyway? The unspoken etiquette of airline seats
Jacy Reese was just being polite when he offered to switch airline seats with a mother and her young son on a recent flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Toronto. But as the old saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.
Take this shopping: Proven strategies for spending less during sale season
Cindy Mesaros has the perfect antidote to compulsive shopping.
Hey Meridiana Airline, where’s our compensation check?
After Lynne Viti and her husband’s flight is delayed, they file a claim for compensation. Then they file another one. Where is their check?
Beware of “free” offers from DirecTV
DirecTV promises Glenn Brasch a “free” baseball package. Then it charges him, and when he tries to cancel, it hits him with an early termination fee. Is there any way to untangle this mess?
How to make United Airlines keep its promises
You could almost hear a collective groan from the traveling public last week when United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz promised a congressional hearing that his airline would “do better” in the wake of the David Dao dragging incident.
Better than what, exactly?
How to travel light — really light
It’s one thing to preach about the virtues of traveling light. It’s quite another to practice them.
I can’t use these Southwest Airlines vouchers — how about a refund?
Kristin Long can’t use her Southwest Airlines vouchers because of a permanent medical condition. Can she get a refund?
No, you’re not entitled to that. Here’s why.
Can we talk about entitlement?
What all the recent United Airlines headlines may mean for travelers
Now that the dust has almost settled from United Airlines’ infamous passenger-expulsion incident, travelers are left with several important and largely unanswered questions about how this kerfuffle will change air travel — if it does at all.