Traveling With Presents? Follow This Tip and Don’t Let the TSA Be the Grinch This Year

The UK has changed its entry requirements, so most visitors need to apply for permission to travel to the country.

The gloomy combination of long dark days, totting up Christmas overspending and returning to work means holidays to far-flung destinations are a distant dream for many at this time of year.

Busy airports are already setting records this year, but there are still a few affordable destinations travelers can seek out in 2025.

Aviation may be one of the safest forms of transportation, but unexpected turbulence can be an uncomfortable or even dangerous experience for airline passengers. While most routes will experience some form of turbulence, a new report reveals that some routes may be more prone to it than others.  Within the United States, flights from Albuquerque, NM to Denver, CO reported the highest average turbulence rate. For international flights, travelers from Mendoza, Argentina to Santiago, Chile experienced it the worst. These results and more were part of a study from turbulence tracking company Turbli, which publishes maps and historical data on airline turbulence. The rest of the top ten of their «Most Turbulent Flight Routes» in the U.S. includes:

While tens of thousands of Southern California residents grapple with this week's unprecedented wildfires, the American Airlines AAdvantage program is encouraging frequent flyers to help by offering bonus AAdvantage miles on donations to the American Red Cross for a limited time.

Another blast of winter weather is wreaking havoc on air travel. Two busy hubs in Texas have already been hit with disruptions, and they could spread to the South and mid-Atlantic by Friday as the nation's latest storm heads east.

Jan 9, 2025 • 9 min read

2025 marks 200 years since passenger rail travel began with the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) in September 1825.

Last year, open water swimmer Amy Appelhans Gubser became the first person to swim from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands, a craggy, mostly uninhabited archipelago off the Pacific coast that is known for its frigid, shark-infested waters. The 55-year-old fetal cardiology nurse coordinator from Pacifica, California, completed the 29.6-mile distance in 17 hours, three minutes. “It was so foggy that I only knew when it was daylight because the sky was a lighter gray,” she says.

The wildfires burning a devastating path across the greater Los Angeles area are also impacting travelers going in and out of the area. A number of flights to and from southern California have been affected by the volatile conditions, although the vast majority of those cancellations and delays involve the Hollywood Burbank Airport. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is not reporting much, if any, interference with travel operations from the wildfires.

Major airlines issued flight alerts and people in Los Angeles scrambled to evacuate as an out-of-control wildfire raged in the southern California city on Wednesday.

JetBlue is celebrating winter with a big flight sale that has tickets starting as low as $49.