A list of urban legends of crashes and coincidences traded by airplane crews when they’re not busy handing out your drinks and peanuts.

Ever wondered what’s behind the curtain at the end of the baggage claim conveyor belt? Or, what would happen if you just hopped on?

I’ve never flown anywhere on Halloween, so I was surprised to learn that, despite our current state of security hassles and identity paranoia, both travelers and flight crews often show up at the airport in costume.

Good news today for business travelers and others who loathe the idea of arriving at their destination without all-important toiletries.

5 years out from 9/11 and one month from the foiled air-terror plot in the UK, the harsh new realities of air travel were, understandably, tops in the headlines this weekend.

The UK has eased it’s clampdown on hand baggage somewhat since the news of last week’s terror plot, with travelers again allowed to carry laptops, phones and ipods, and solid, but not liquid or paste, toiletries. The permissible size of a carry-on, th

Travel news headlines for the weekend of August 13, 2006: new airport security rules, and play-it-safe summertime destinations.

The business-traveler fantasy of the carry-on-only flight is no more. In response to Thursday’s news of the foiled plot to blow up trans-atlantic flights using liquid explosives, air travelers were greeted with an onslaught of new security restrictions.

Yesterday’s Guardian had a piece about David Rockwell’s interior design for the new JetBlue terminal at JFK, which will replace Eero Saarinen’s abandoned TWA hub as the airport’s fifth.

Well, not exactly. The two branches of Yotel set to open in Heathrow and Gatwick late this year, and in the city proper in 2007, prefer to call their 10’x10’ rooms “cabins.�