Fellow travelers, it’s not too soon to start thinking about your 2018 itineraries.
SAFETY
These gadgets and apps will help you travel worry-free
If you’re a little paranoid, you’re going to love this summer travel season.
Space wars are shifting to the human rights front
Do you have the right to room on a plane?
If you answered “no,” you’re probably with the majority of American travelers. After all, airlines are private companies, and you always have the option of paying more for an upgraded seat, don’t you?
Your customer data isn’t safe, but here’s how to protect it
Would it surprise you if I said consumers don’t believe the personal and financial data they submit to corporations is safe?
Is it finally safe to take a cruise?
If you’re one of the 303 million Americans who won’t take a cruise this year, you might want to reconsider your vacation plans. This may be the time to head out to sea.
Is your credit card safe at cruising altitude?
Maybe it was the Bloody Mary that got Jean Shanley into trouble on a recent flight from Louisville to Las Vegas.
She paid for the $5 beverage with her American Express card and then slipped the card back into her pocketbook, where it stayed for the rest of her vacation. When she returned home, Shanley, a sales associate for a department store in Burlington, Ky., found $1,300 in fraudulent charges on the card — and she suspects that Southwest Airlines is responsible for the security breach.
How safe is a cruise? Even after new law, it’s hard to say
As Carnival Corp. announced plans to salvage the Costa Concordia last week, the world’s attention focused again on cruise safety — or rather, lack of it.
Passenger forced to stand for a seven-hour airline flight
At nearly seven hours, US Airways flight 901 is one of the longest domestic nonstop flights. And Arthur Berkowitz knows how long it takes to get from Anchorage to Philadelphia down to the minute. That’s because he says he had to stand for most of the flight when he returned to Philly last July.