Not so much a travel deal, but a great deal none the less. Target currently has a deal where you get two $5 gift cards when you buy four products from a list including Windex, Lysol, Tilex, and Scrubbing Bubbles. Someone at SlickDeals has figured out how to match up the …

When you hear “stunt plane,” you probably think of this: But apparently, someone has ventured into the world of using wide-body planes as stunt planes.  Namely, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. According to Popular Mechanics: Last years for the 2015 Paris Air Show, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner decked out in Vietnam …

We’ve all been there.  We receive a notification that our flight was cancelled.  Everyone runs to the gate agents or lounge agents.  Everyone pulls out their phone. When there’s been major cancellations, I had trouble getting rebooked as a top-tier elite on my airline.  You can’t get prioritized to the front …

Did they eat the fish? A Delta flight just diverted to Tulsa when ~15 passengers–that is, 10% of the flight–suddenly got sick at the same time. The flight took off from Atlanta and was headed to Denver. Here’s a play-by-play on the flight by Flight Aware. There’s no word yet …

A Rapid City-bound Delta flight landed at the wrong airport yesterday. Whoops. Instead of a regional airport, the A320 aircraft landed at an air force base. Apparently, in this case, the two airports can be confusing According to Fox News: Ellsworth is about 10 miles due north of Rapid City Regional …

Once, I stayed in a hotel suite so big, I found a new room on the last day of my stay. I was on a work trip in Las Vegas, and we got a suite at the Encore Tower Suites to use for hospitality and entertaining.  (The Encore is attached to …

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 …

Seriously, this is happening right now. Back when I was in school, I went to a conference for students from all over the world.  I started hanging out with a group of people that included someone from Denmark, someone from Norway, and someone from Sweden.  And wow the jokes were …