Southwest has a reputation of differentiating themselves from its competitors, including the way they board their passengers (by groups rather than assigned seat numbers), their lack of fees for check baggage (up to two) and their flights attendants odd propensity to break out into song, rap or fiddle solo while on board. [...]

You may recognize the famous Lake Palace of Jaipur, Rajasthan — the ornate, seemingly floating palace turned hotel located in the middle (you read that right) of Lake Pichola, Udaipur, India — from such shows as No Reservations or the movie Octopussy. But Rajasthan has another notable “floating” palace opening [...]

Notice anything different this month when you searched for airfares on Google? Try typing in “New York to Los Angeles,” and you’ll notice that Google’s Flight Search service now pops up at the top of results — below several advertisements, but prominently “above the fold” (industry term for the part [...]

TechCrunch is reporting that American Airlines will be the first major carrier to use iPads instead of paper flight charts. Why, you may ask, are they doing this? Are AA pilots young, hipster types that rely on Apple devices in a proportionally higher amount than the average populace? Not exactly, [...]

You knew that hotel prices in New York were up there, but seeing it portrayed in the infographic below only drives home how high they really are. Compared to places like Manila, Riga, Hanoi and Budapest, uber-expensive cities such as New York, Geneva, Venice and Moscow make you want to [...]

American Airlines announced today that it would be filing for Chapter 11 reorganization in federal bankruptcy court in New York to restructure the company’s debt and costs (which many believe to be code for adjusting their historically generous pensions and union contracts). So what does this mean for you, American [...]

The future of airline mobile apps are here, and it apparently involves helping you find the closest airport bathroom. As people rely more on mobile computing, apps are increasingly growing in importance, and the airliners are racing to keep up. Though many airliners allow you to perform basic tasks like [...]

Google unveiled Google Flight Search today, their own flight search engine that is the product of their 2010 acquisition of ITA Software — the company that powers most of the big travel search engines. This being Google and all, rest assured that no one is going to allege the site [...]

In what has got to be the greatest surprise bit of news I’ve heard since hearing that Arrested Development was going to be made into a movie, Poltico recently quoted Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as saying that the shoes-off screening at American airport security lines may be on the [...]

I’m pretty laid back when I’m traveling, happy to be on the road and committed to not letting anything spoil my good mood. But there’s one thing that really gets me, and it has to do with when the plane lands. Why is it that certain people feel like they [...]