Three years ago today, my husband JT and I left for a gap year. But, we didn’t return to our normal lives after one year. Instead, we continued traveling and working as digital nomads. Now, three years in, I’ve lived at 243 different addresses, slept in 39 countries and flown 684,152 miles. Granted, I’ve been […]
If you take a long-haul flight with American Airlines after Oct. 1, there will be fewer flight attendants on-hand to respond to your call button. In a memo to the airline’s employees distributed on Wednesday, Jill Surdek, American’s senior vice president of flight service said that the airline is expecting to have significantly more staff
How does this sound: you get $4,000 to spend on travel — every year — until 2022. That’s what one senator is now proposing, and the Trump administration has reportedly been kicking around the idea as well. The proposal — a sort of domestic travel stimulus plan — could become part of a new economic
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) installed temperature screening stations within the Tom Bradley International Terminal on Tuesday, as part of a larger effort to combat the spread of COVID-19. LAX. (Photo courtesy Los Angeles World Airports) Sign up for TPG’s newsletter to stay informed on travel news “A world-class airport isn’t defined just by
Last night, Disneyland indefinitely postponed its reopening plan. After being closed for four months since mid-March due to COVID-19, the California theme park was tentatively scheduled to reopen on July 17, the 65th anniversary of when the park first opened in 1955. Disneyland’s reopening plan was announced on June 10, but things move fast in
Air Canada has invested heavily in improving its long-haul business class product in recent years, including retrofitting a number of older jets with its flagship Signature Class cabins. Those seats had only been available on 777 and 787 aircraft, but yesterday Air Canada’s first Airbus A330 featuring the improved business class seats took to the
Delta Air Lines is likely to pull some of its planned flights in August amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in U.S., a rise that comes even as other hard-hit nations in Asia and Europe show continued declines in new infections. Ed Bastian, CEO of the Atlanta-based carrier, acknowledged the rise in coronavirus cases to
As the travel industry reopens following COVID-19 shutdowns, TPG suggests that you talk to your doctor, follow health officials’ guidance and research local travel restrictions before booking that next trip. We will be here to help you prepare, whether it is next month or next year. I was planning to spend the second half of June
Airlines around the world are struggling and need to reevaluate their route networks and fleet strategies to stay afloat. As a part of that, many of them have made some difficult decisions regarding the future of their long-haul international first-class products. The number of airlines and routes featuring a true international first class had already been on
The Great Scrapping of the Cruise Ships has begun. The mayor of Piombino, Italy, on Tuesday, revealed that a Costa Cruises vessel that arrived in the city this week, the 1,928-passenger Costa Victoria, would be dismantled. For more cruise news, reviews and tips, sign up for TPG’s new cruise newsletter “This morning I went to
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants the aircraft that he and senior members of the royal family use to look a little more representative of the country’s colors. His office said this week that the government’s official Airbus A330 was in the process of getting a red, white and blue “rebranding” to “better represent” the
This article originally appeared in December 2019. It’s a “no go” item: if you aircraft does not have it, you will not push back from the gate. It’s the emergency medical kit, which along with the automatic emergency defibrillator (AED) is a mandatory item, and with good reason. If you have a medical emergency in-flight,
