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Planning on travelling by plane and tired of seats with no legroom, sitting too close to the lavatory, or not having any room in front to store carry-on items? You might find help on SeatGuru, offering information about airplane seats, amenities offered, and the airlines themselves.
By clicking an airline and then selecting a plane, you can view a seating chart diagram offering information about "Good Seats", those with mixed reviews, and "Poor Seats".
The Transportation Security Administration is giving its airport checkpoint officers a new tool: a kit to test for explosive powders.
The TSA said Tuesday it is deploying the kits to all U.S. airports this week, but said it will have little noticeable impact on passengers. Travelers can still board planes with powders such as baby formula, makeup and medicines.
"The majority of passengers won’t notice any difference in checkpoint procedures," said TSA spokeswoman Kristin Lee. "This is just one additional layer of security that helps…
In the latest round of its epic 20-year battle against taxi rip-offs, Prague City Hall removed a group of alleged over-charging drivers from their stands at the tourist-heavy Old Town Square in mid-July. Punches flew as the drivers resisted police efforts to eliminate their lucrative parking places.
In August a court said the removal was illegal, and now the suspected con artists are back fleecing foreigners for more than three times the maximum rate of 28 korunas per kilometer established by city hall.
Given all of this, every guidebook warns against the scourge of Czech tourism: the crooked taxi driver.
The California High Speed Rail Authority proposal is to make an 800 mile long high speed rail from San Francisco and Sacramento down to Los Angeles and San Diego. It will be expensive, an estimated $40 billion, but California has voted to approve a $9.9 billion bond issue, and the Obama administration is voicing its support for 10 high-speed rail corridors across the country. This high speed rail will go 220 mph.
A British design company says it is working on plans for new sideways, staggered seating on airplanes as a cost-cutting option for airlines to maximize the number of passengers on board.
Design Q released images of the concept, which has a row of seats facing inward on each side of the plane and two rows running back-to-back down the middle of the aircraft.
The design theoretically would save money for the airlines because it would allow planes to hold more passengers, and the demand for such concepts could take off,
Gone are the days when “staying connected” was governed by wires. The wireless syndrome has stormed in our lives in the form of Wi-Fi homes, hotels, trains, bookshops and coffee shops. It is not surprising that all the major airlines have been strongly inspired to render Wi-Fi services in air when even the Mom and Pop stores on land are aspiring to go Wi-Fi. The critical hypothesis by these airlines that their air passengers will regard airborne Wi-Fi as a perk has been questioned and the alacrity of the air travelers to spend an extra dime to enjoy a Wi-Fi journey has been challenged.
It’s not a Roth IRA or a 401(k), but the money still adds up.
I’m referring to my vacation kitty.
Every day, I empty the spare change from my pockets, sweep coins off the kitchen counter, and pinch every penny rolling around in the washing machine. I also keep a sharp eye for shiny coins during my walk from the parking lot into work .Every last penny, nickel, dime and quarter gets deposited in a glass jar or burlap sack that I keep in my closet.
The payoff comes during our family vacations. Before leaving town, I make the pilgrimage to the bank and trade those cold hard coins for bills. I can usually count on about $400 –
IN mid-August, when I flew SkyWest Airlines from Denver to Tucson, a grouchy flight attendant announced before takeoff that “according to F.A.A. safety regulations” passengers could place nothing at all in the seat-back pockets. Not a newspaper, a book or a pair of reading glasses.
And, as I noted in a recent column, she enforced it like a drill sergeant throughout the flight. I prudently waited until the plane had landed before asking her where she got the idea that the Federal Aviation Administration had banned all personal items from seat-back pockets.
Something to bring a bit of humor or strangeness to Labor Day weekend. Here is a story about dangerous hornets in France, a slide show about furniture made from old plane parts, and a video of one of the longest airport lines I have ever seen.
Longest line in the world … at Heathrow Airport, London
Sometimes it is hard put words to what visuals can show so clearly. This video is a couple of years old but still seams amazing. Glad I have never been faced with this. It would make tarmac delays seem tame.
With hurricane insurance, travelers don’t have to wait until the weather ruins their vacation to get their money back. AS the first storms of the Atlantic hurricane season began to swirl toward the Caribbean last month, I was booking a last-minute getaway to my favorite beach in Puerto Rico.
Asking for it, you say? Perhaps. But it wouldn’t be the first time I visited a hurricane-prone destination at the height of hurricane season, which typically peaks in August through October.