Checked bag fees provide $25 worth of reasons to pack light. If you can carry onto the airplane all you’ll need for your next trip, you’ll not only save money, you’ll be assured the bag will arrive when you do. A new study from the aviation technology company, SITA shows that six and a half of every 1,000 checked bags fail to arrive at their proper destination so the odds are with us. Still, on my last few trips, I squandered more than an hour waiting for my stuff at the claim carousel. Either of the suitcases I carried with me, one on a trip to Italy, the other… Read More…

The French philosopher Henri Bergson  once said, “Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.”  Well Bergson has been dead for 71 years, meaning not once in his lifetime did he have to take off his shoes or toss his drink in the trash before boarding an airplane. So forgive my presumption but Henri would be right with me on my new campaign to puncture the ballooning hostility between passengers and airlines with a liberal and repeated application of sharp one-liners. Not that I’m volunteering to do it myself, oh no! I’ve got some folks in mind to administer the remedy –… Read More…