Airline Passengers Only Receive $12 Food Voucher After Enduring 33 Hour Delay Passengers on Hawaiian Airlines Flight 51 were prepared for an 11-hour journey from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Honolulu, Hawaii. However, their flight scheduled to depart on Tuesday didn’t take off until Wednesday, 33 hours later. Was the flight canceled and rescheduled, with the airline… Read more…

LPT Request: how to reclaim your money back if the airline is ghosting you To keep the story short, last summer I had a flight from the Netherlands to Spain, having a short layout in Portugal. They lost my luggage (23kg) somewhere in the process for 7 days, so I had to dress with my father’s clothes (which was nice because I discovered the amount of cool stuff he secretly had hahaha). The airline is ‘TAP portugal’. I h…

Refundable airline tix? OR non-refundable tix and cover that expense under travel insurance? In general, do you think it best to: 1) Buy travel insurance that covers everything, including non-refundable airline tix (in other words, you would report the cost of your trip to include the price of the tix). Or Only cover the body of the trip (all but the flights) with travel insurance, and buy refundable airline tix? submitted by …

Airline refusing compensation Hi everyone, I was travelling with Lufthansa last week and my connection flight in Germany was cancelled and I had to spend 2 nights there. The airline covered my expenses, including a hotel but I was told to apply for compensation. I did that but Lufthansa sent me an email that the flight was cancelled due to bad weather conditions and, as thi…

Teen Caught ‘Skiplagging’ Banned From Airline For Three Years The teenage traveler caught “skiplagging” last week has been banned by American Airlines for the next three years. So if you’re planning to buy a plane ticket somewhere other than your final destination, just to get off at the layover airport, you may want to think twice. Read more…

Crazy Airline Experience! I had a flight today to Cancun with my 5 months old baby and 100+ lbs of luggage. I arrived at the airport at 8:30am for a flight leaving at 12:55pm because between the baby and my suitcases I really wanted to make sure In case something happened I wouldn’t miss the flight (I went to the airport alone without any help whatsoever, think pushing 3…

Airline costs in US In Europe and flights between countries are so much cheaper. People can fly between countries on airlines like Easy Jet and Volotea for a fraction of what it costs to fly from one state to another in the US. I have met people flying from the UK to Greece for $40! How is this possible? New York to Arizona non stop round trip is like a minimum of …

Airline Asks 20 Passengers To Get Off Overweight Flight One of the most frustrating parts of flying with an airline is being bumped off an overbooked flight. While you’ll be compensated by the carrier, you usually have to spend an unexpected extra night before your flight. Getting booted off an overweight plane, though, is a different kind of gut punch. You’ve finally made… Read more…

Unruly Passenger Diverts 9-Hour Flight Over Airline Food There are many things to be frustrated by with passenger air travel. A large enough thunderstorm could cancel your flight and everyone else’s in the entire terminal. TSA checkpoints are still take ages to get through and overly invasive. That being said, I wouldn’t put food on that list. One particularly discontent… Read more…

Anxious about airline delays + missing connecting flights. Any advice for a newbie world traveller? Am I overthinking/over-worrying? I apologize if this is a stupid post. My wife and I are not experienced in international travel. We have a tour booked with a Central Asian tour operator (Advantour) to visit Central Asia this September. We have a morning flight from Winnipeg, Canada, to Toronto, Canada, on WestJet and an 11-hour layover in Toronto, then an overnight flight fro…