International ticket prices, especially, will be high, but not getting locked into dates or destinations can keep costs down. And consider “skiplagging.”
Category: Travel and Vacations
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Security Lines: How to Speed Through
T.S.A. and Customs are making changes that they say will cut down on wait times, but you can also prepare yourself by joining programs and downloading apps.
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Lost Luggage: New Tech and Trusted Tips
Airlines and airports are developing ways to handle bags quicker and more efficiently. How you can help keep track of your luggage, and what do if it’s lost.
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How to Plan Around Strikes in Europe
Across Europe, workers have been walking out over pay disputes and labor conditions, and the turmoil will extend into the summer travel season. But they don’t have to disrupt your trip.
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Airports With the Worst Records for Cancellations and Delays
If you can, avoiding destinations with the worst records for delays and cancellations may be wise. Or at least time your arrival right.
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Delays and Cancellations: Know Your Rights, and Book Wisely
The F.A.A. has made changes to cut down on chaos, but choosing your flights defensively, and knowing what you’re entitled to, can help.
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A Flight Attendant’s 12 Etiquette Rules for Summer Travel
Air travel is going to be busy this summer. With some common sense and courtesy, could flying be … pleasant?
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How a Novelist Became an Innkeeper
“These days, my role as an innkeeper occupies me almost as much as fiction,” writes Joyce Maynard, who, during the pandemic, hired locals in a Guatemalan village to turn her writing retreat into a guesthouse.
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To Find Europe’s Best Bike Routes, a Cycling Writer Asked the Crowd
The longtime sports journalist Claude Droussent discusses his new guidebook to cycling in Europe, which uses data from the fitness app Strava, and the growing role bicycles play in worldwide travel.
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Buffalo Couple Who Sheltered Korean Travelers Reunite With Them in Seoul
Months after a South Korean tour group landed at their upstate New York doorstep during a snowstorm, the couple who hosted them received a heroes’ welcome in Seoul.
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My Husband Flies First Class and Puts Me in Coach. Is That Fair?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on who deserves what in a marriage.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s San Juan, Puerto Rico
The multi-hyphenate writer and performer spent his childhood summers on the Caribbean Island and offers a non-tourist’s take on the U.S. territory and its capital.