American Airlines just sent out a notice about the different station closures.  Due to major safety problems with the DC metro, portions of the system have been shut down while critical repairs happen. The National Airport Station to Braddock Road is one of the track pieces currently up.  While the trains themselves …

The answer, sadly, is yes. We just had a case of this with British Airways on a Heathrow to Tokyo flight. From the Daily Mail: Passengers on a British Airways flight to Tokyo were forced to suffer a 6,000-mile ‘flight to nowhere’ after the plane they were on returned to Heathrow …

This is something I worry about with unaccompanied flyers.  A little boy’s flight from Auckland to Rarotonga was cancelled.  He was flying as an unaccompanied flyer, so his mother contacted the airline to find out if accommodations would be provided for him. She was assured they would be. His mother was …