What you need to know about sending your child on a plane flight alone
Sometimes parents have little choice, but to send their children to a distant location via airplane, alone, unaccompanied by a parent or other relative. Ned Levi follows up his column about serious problems of Chloe Boyce’s Southwest Airlines trip, unaccompanied by her mother, with information and suggestions about sending your child on a plane flight alone.
What we’re watching: 2012 New Year’s videos from Sydney, Hong Kong, Kiev and outer space
Fireworks light up the Sydney Harbor Bridge, which I once climbed. They sparkle over the main square of Kiev where as a teenager I partied under watchful Soviet eyes. Finally, Antoine de Luna, creates a vision of the new year with pictures of cities across the world from outer space which I dream of visiting.
Weekend what we're reading: Florida courts nudists, taste testing airline food, Phallological Museum
Nudists in Florida plan to promote their natural lifestyle as a tourism asset, testing airline food and a unique phallus museum in Iceland grace this weekends, end-of-the-year news. Happy New Year. Florida town seeks nudist vacationers from Europe This county, the...
An Olympian's surprising Top 12 Alpine ski and snowboard resorts
Named to the U.S. Ski Team at 18, Bahrke, a native Californian, spent 11 years globetrotting for World Cup competitions and competing in three Olympics (Salt Lake City, Torino, and Vancouver). These days, she is squiring those with gobs of disposable income around one...
10 quirky New Year's celebrations
Many of us have heard about the New Year’s ball dropping at Times Square in New York, we have seen videos of the fireworks over Boston Harbor and Las Vegas, but how many have seen the Sardine or Bologna drop in Maine and Pennsylvania or the MoonPie drop in Alabama?
Top airports for healthy food
Airport food and healthy don’t seem to go together. But these days, the healthy offerings are getting better and more and more outlets are providing at least some healthy choices on their menus.
Unaccompanied minors flying — potential nightmares around every corner
Ned Levi examines Southwest Airlines unaccompanied minor policies and actions, in light of the problems of Chloe Boyce, who was flying on their airline from Nashville to New York. Chloe, a 9 year old was inexplicably taken off her flight in Baltimore and rebooked on a later flight without notifying her mother or anyone else in her family.
Merry Christmas videos, enjoy the holidays — Santa flies through New York, Hallelujah flash mob, Spanair gifts
Here are three of my favorite Christmas videos. Well, the first is here because I enjoy the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular so much. The second, is one of the best flashmobs I have seen on video and it fits right into the Christmas spirit. Finally, a video I posted back in April, but deserves to be posted again; one of the best Christmas surprises ever arranged by an airline.
Weekend what we're reading: Adopt a TSA puppy, a Spanish Smurf-blue town, Superbowl hotel rates skyrocket
This Christmas eve we take a look at cuddly TSA bomb-sniffing puppies, a cute town in southern Spain that voted to have itself painted blue and then decided to stay that way and finally a look at the remarkable hotel prices in Indianapolis for the Superbowl.
TSA looking for the wrong stuff
Limiting the searches that TSA personnel need to do will save thousands of hours of time, cut budgets dramatically, allow a focus on the most dangerous issues and move passengers through security more quickly and with fewer hassles.