Track tips

Jan 2, 2025 • 7 min read

Several French departments have been placed on orange alert for strong winds and a number of train lines in north-central France are affected.

Jan 6, 2025 • 10 min read

Feeling peckish before a long train journey is normal, but where do you go to refuel?

To T.J. Fixman, the writer of the Netflix movie “Carry-On,” an airport security line is ripe cinematic territory. In the movie, set on Christmas Eve, a Transportation Security Administration officer played by Taron Egerton is extorted by a mysterious terrorist into allowing a suspicious — and very dangerous — bag through security screening. Cue chaos throughout the airport, and later, in an airborne airplane.

With 2024 coming to a close, the countdown to qualify for Delta Medallion status is on. However, Delta SkyMiles members have one important task to complete before the year ends.

Twelve inches of fresh powder had just fallen at Eaglecrest Ski Area in Juneau, Alaska, when I arrived for my first day of skiing last February. Snow packed the slumping branches of towering pines and frosted the beards of draping moss. From the chairlift, skiers below me appeared from the thighs up, their lower halves plowing fresh tracks. Whoops of delight rang out from sources unseen.

Finding your lost checked bag might just happen a little bit faster if you're flying on United or Air Canada.

The same passenger who was discovered stowing away on a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris earlier in the week became unruly aboard a returning flight on Saturday, delaying the plane’s departure, an aviation official said.

Whether it's wanderlust, retirement, cost of living, family ties, or other reasons, some Americans long to live abroad.

Travelers are heading to the airports in droves this Thanksgiving, but they may need to pack their patience thanks to a combination of bad weather and air traffic controller shortages.

As travelers are readying their 2025 travel goals, Delta may be preparing to give passengers more choices.  During its investor day presentation this week, Delta signified that the company could be rolling out new cabins and types of services for passengers to purchase beyond the six they currently sell. 

As much as I love visiting new places—and I really do love it—nothing disrupts my healthy habits quite like travel. Going on a trip often means taking a red-eye or navigating a time zone change that disturbs my sleep schedule; a change in my typical diet; and a whole lot of pre-travel stress. This doesn't mean I'm going to cut back on travel or skip the gelato when I'm in Florence, but it does mean I'm eager to find ways to make staying on top of my health easier when I travel and when I return home, too. Enter: the popular Oura Ring.

If you've been using your debit card for all your purchases for years — carefully tracking your checking account balance and not spending more than what you have in the bank — shifting your spending to a credit card can be a big change.

In Baku, Azerbaijan, this week, the travel industry will have its first official day ever at the annual United Nations climate talks. At COP29, as this year’s conference is known, Wednesday has been set as a “thematic day on tourism,” and there will be high-level meetings and roundtables devoted to the tourism industry’s effects on the environment and climate change and how they might be mitigated.

Apple will now allow AirTag users to share location data with airlines in an effort to make lost luggage a thing of the past.

It just got much easier to redeem those American Airlines trip credits before their expiration date.

An up to $50 Saks Fifth Avenue statement credit every six months (January-June and July-December; up to $100 each calendar year). An up to $20 monthly statement credit toward digital entertainment (up to $240 per calendar year). An up to $300 annual Equinox statement credit each calendar year.

Last spring, we told you about Brightline's plans for a new stop along its Florida rail line — one that would bring a station to the city of Stuart, situated on the state's Treasure Coast some 40 miles north of West Palm Beach.

Wellington, New Zealand straddles one of the world’s great natural harbors. It's a vibrant capital city, gently nestled along the corrugated landscape that rises from the water to meet the 650-foot ridgelines of Matairangi (also known Mount Victoria). As stunning as it was to observe this scene from the Interislander ferry port, I had to wonder what I was doing here: I came to embark on a nearly two-week long Great Journeys New Zealand train trip. But this was where the adventure was to commence—aboard a 1350-passenger sea vessel, with nary a track nor train car in sight.

It’s always a thrill to pull out of a train station and feel yourself picking up speed, wheels click-clacking over the rails. It’s even more thrilling when your train has no roof or sides, is as low-slung as a Mazda Miata and comes with a warning to watch out for bears crossing your path.