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Delta Air Lines has offered its most substantial assistance to passengers yet following the IT outage that canceled thousands of flights last week.

To visit Finland — named the happiest country for many years in a row — my husband and I traveled by ferry.

The U.S. Department of State issues a limited number of emergency passports on a case-by-case basis for U.S. citizens who need a passport to travel.

After I lost my passport (embarrassing, given my job as a travel editor), I’ve learned lots about travel IDs—including the differences between a passport book vs. card—in my quest to replace it and hopefully stop myself from losing it again. Allow me to share my hard-won wisdom.

It’s been a tough week for travelers with widespread cancellations and delays after an IT issue disrupted the flight operations for some of the largest airlines in the world. Delta Airlines, in particular, has struggled to recover. Thousands of its flights have been canceled or delayed over the last few days, and the U.S. Department of Transportation launched an investigation into the airline as a result of passenger complaints.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Tuesday that his department had opened an investigation into Delta Air Lines after the tech outage last week disrupted flights worldwide, and the agency wanted to hear from travelers who said that the airline had not complied with passenger protection requirements.

A global IT outage on Friday canceled thousands of flights and forced several airlines to request ground stops, throwing travel into chaos.

When I was a kid, one of the highlights of my grandmother’s visits was that we’d always go to Nordstrom to get a fancy snack at the cafe and browse the shoe section. Channeling those memories, when I moved out on my own, the department store became my go-to place for footwear of any kind, including my college go-to's, Converse Jack Purcell (which Nordstrom still carries).

A global Microsoft outage disrupted IT systems around the world on Friday, canceling over a thousand US flights and delaying hundreds more. As a result, major US airlines including American Airlines, United, and Delta requested global ground stops on all flights Friday morning, per the FAA. As of 11 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, there were 1,692 canceled flights from US origins, out of 3,861 flights cancelled globally, according to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company.

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Next time you think about getting a gift card from the display rack as a last-minute gift, you might want to think again. According to the Federal Trade Commission, gift card scams accounted for $217 million of the more than $10 billion U.S. consumers lost to financial scams in 2023.

Enrolling for TSA PreCheck is now more convenient than ever, as biometric service Clear has added several new enrollment locations at airports across the country. 

Holland America Line introduces 15 new shows on its 2025 Grand Voyages, developed by Blackburn International, featuring diverse musical genres and themes to entertain guests during extensive global itineraries.

In June, Brussels Airport recorded 2.1 million passengers, marking a 4% increase from June 2023. Throughout the first half of 2024, the airport saw nearly 11 million passengers, a 6% growth year-on-year.

A canceled flight can be devastating for travelers looking to attend an important meeting or family gathering. Fortunately, new data from the Department of Transportation (DOT) reveals that flight cancellations are at historic lows for the first half of 2024, despite a record number of flights taking to the skies. Only 1.4 percent of flights were canceled over the first six months, which is the lowest rate in over 10 years, the DOT shared in a release.  For comparison, in 2022, nearly 3 percent of flights were canceled, and in 2023 the number improved to 1.4 percent.  “This year’s record-breaking air travel is another good sign for our economy as more Americans take to the skies than ever before.

In a summer that has so far seen record-breaking crowds traveling over holidays, the week of the Fourth of July 2024 won’t be any exception. In fact, this Independence Day is projected to be one of the busiest travel days in US history.

Jul 2, 2024 • 5 min read

There's nothing quite like an Italian summer: sailing through crystal blue waters, sipping on chilled limoncello, and driving down winding oceanfront roads (in a red convertible, wearing giant sunnies and a silk headscarf, of course).

Boeing agreed on Sunday to plead guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to defraud the federal government over two fatal crashes of the 737 Max in 2018 and 2019, according to a late-night court filing.

Nobody enjoys a flight delay. And while delays are usually not predictable very far in advance, you can maximize your odds for an on-time arrival by booking flights on the world's timeliest airlines or from the airports with the fewest delays. Aviation analytics company Cirium just released its report for June 2024 for on-time arrivals for airlines and airports' on-time departures, which might persuade you to fly one airline (or from one airport) over another. 

Boeing’s announcement on Sunday that it had agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge as part of a deal with the Justice Department was the culmination of a yearslong crisis involving the company’s 737 Max plane.