Some analysts predict that the closure of Spirit Airlines will push other airlines’ fares up. | Giorgio Vera/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Anyone booking on Spirit Airlines kind of knew they were taking their flight…
In the absence of durable systemic solutions, American travelers are left to do that most American of things: fend for themselves. | Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images I’m scheduled to take my 1-year-old on a three-hour flight just over a week from now. Probably a headache, under normal circumstances, but a bona fide nightmare amid…
Readers and audiences have been falling in love with British romance stories for centuries. Readers and audiences have been falling in love with British romance stories for centuries. Books by authors like the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen still fly off the shelves, and they’ve been adapted for the big and small screen dozens of…
On Delta and other legacy carriers, add-ons like sitting closer to the front of the cabin or aisle seats are considered premiums. | Shelby Knowles/Bloomberg via Getty Images Perhaps it’s the natural human inclination toward nosiness, but people are always interested in what others are and aren’t buying. Those purchases always invite some kind of…
A group of trainers training service dogs to be at the Vancouver International Airport. | Liang Sen/Xinhua via Getty Images This past month I, like many Americans, flew back home for the holidays. On the first leg of that trip, from New York to Los Angeles, a dog in a “service dog” vest barked at…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doing pull-ups at DCA airport is not exactly the kind of air travel improvement travelers want this holiday season. | Heather Diehl/Getty Images This month, a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. popped up on my feed. Wearing a blue dress shirt and tie, the bronzed, tin-voiced secretary of the US…
If you do find yourself shopping for a flight, a pair of underwear, or even a concert ticket, and you want to be treated like a stranger, make yourself a stranger online. During Amazon’s semi-annual Prime Day bonanza, the underwear I usually buy were on deep discount at a price so low I assumed it…
The back of Air India flight 171 is pictured at the site after it crashed in a medical college’s residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025. | Sam Panthaky/AFP via Getty Images With 260 casualties and only one surviving passenger, the Air India 171 crash is one of the deadliest aviation…
Tens of millions of tourists visit Turkey each year, most of whom are there to see the convergence of East and West. It’s a place where Europe meets Asia, where history collides with modernism, where you can find a dazzling combination of culture and cool unlike anywhere else on planet Earth. But among those millions…
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