On Travel is a weekly consumer travel column that offers information and advice for people planning a business or leisure trip. The feature started in USA Today in 2013 and is now nationally syndicated.
Do you knock three times on the airplane fuselage before you board a flight? Or do you carry a lucky rabbit’s foot on vacation? If you do, then you might be a superstitious traveler.
The holiday travel season is right around the corner, and what better time than now to face your travel fears — especially your irrational ones?
What’s the worst thing you’ve seen someone do at a hotel? For Lynne Goldberg, it’s the check-in bully.
Remember those travel insurance requirements during the pandemic? They’re back.
Don’t look now, but air travelers are paying more and getting less — and they’re fine with it.
Do you have any rights when an airline changes your seat assignment? That’s what Jay Libove wanted to know after he lost his assigned seat on a recent flight from Philadelphia to Barcelona.
You can almost feel it when you fly these days. It’s that sense that you’re a second-class citizen with limited rights — or none at all.
Imagine this: Your flight’s been delayed over and over. But when you ask a lone worker staffing the customer service counter for help, he just shrugs. There’s no meal voucher, no compensation — not even an apology. Just an indifferent employee telling you to deal with it.
On a recent flight from San Francisco to New York, Luca Dal Zotto found himself sitting next to a noisy airline passenger.
