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Commentary: What can the FAA and TSA do to handle spikes in flyers?
With the arrival of the summer travel season, airports and airlines are experiencing unprecedented passenger volumes, which means that most flights are filled or near capacity. This trend of higher passenger volume will not abate anytime soon.
With higher demand, the airlines, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security ...Read more
Gen Z is traveling more, and debt isn't slowing them down
Kari Karanikos is 25 years old with six figures of debt. A social media director who lives in Pittsburgh, Karanikos is one of the many Gen Zers who love to travel, despite carrying hefty debt.
A recent Bankrate survey on chasing credit card rewards while in debt found that nearly 1 in 4 (24%) Gen Zers and 1 in 3 (32%) millennials carry a credit...Read more
Record crowds expected for Independence Day travel
A record number of people are expected to travel during the Fourth of July holiday period, according to the latest forecast from AAA.
The auto club forecasts that more than 70.9 million people in the United States will travel at least 50 miles for the Independence Day period from June 29 through July 7.
Across the country, “There will be 3.5...Read more
Commentary: I live in Northern California. Why do I have to travel hundreds of miles to take the SAT?
I live in Northern California, but I traveled to Texas to take the SAT on Saturday.
It’s not due to lack of planning on my part. I went on the College Board site to register for the June SAT the first hour of the first day that students could sign up. But within minutes, all the seats in my county and across Northern California were gone. ...Read more
Traveler carries measles through LAX as cases rise around the US
LOS ANGELES — A traveler carrying measles flew from Munich, Germany, through Los Angeles on the way to Fresno Yosemite International Airport this month, exposing thousands of California travelers to the highly infectious disease, health officials have confirmed.
Officials from the L.A. County Department of Public Health confirmed the case ...Read more
TSA screened nearly 3 million passengers at US airports on Friday – busiest day on record
NEW YORK — Nearly 3 million airline travelers passed through security checkpoints at airports across the United States on Friday, setting a new record for the highest number of passengers screened in a single day, the Transportation Security Administration said.
The history-making day, part of Memorial Day weekend travel plans, surpassed by ...Read more
Commentary: Will the automatic refund policy for air travel cause more harm than good?
Just in time for summer travel, the United States Department of Transportation has announced sweeping changes that, on the surface, appear to help air travelers get the upper hand with airlines.
Unfortunately, what the agency has proposed may hurt, not help, travelers at the very time when travelers need airlines to get them to their final ...Read more
Record 2.5 million Floridians will travel for Memorial Day weekend, AAA predicts
MIAMI — A record-setting 2.5 million Floridians plan to hit the road or airport for the long holiday weekend, according to a travel forecast from AAA.
That’s 126,500 more holiday travelers than the previous record set last year. The club projects 2.3 million Florida travelers will journey 50 miles or more in a car, while more than 224,000 ...Read more
Jonathan Bailey doesn't like to bare it all. But vulnerability fueled his best performance yet
LOS ANGELES — "This is where all the cruising happened."
Jonathan Bailey and I are standing in Pershing Square on a bright, blustery spring afternoon, nearing the end of a homemade queer history tour of downtown L.A.: One Magazine, Cooper Do-Nuts/Nancy Valverde Square, the Dover bathhouse, the Biltmore Hotel and this, the city's former ...Read more
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