Last week Ned Levi discussed healthy tips for travelers when flying. This week Ned is back with more healthy tips concerning food while flying, “airline carrier colds,” ear pain, and the infamous “aircraft infection zone.”
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carry-on luggage
Cruise ship packing has a lot to do with what clothes you’ll need for the cruise and your excursions off the ship, but there are many other issues which significantly affect what you pack and how you pack it. Ned Levi examines many of the issues which affects packing for cruises and offers his top 7 cruise packing tips.
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Things disappear from luggage. Please add to the list of items you wouldn’t check. If you’ve had items stolen, what were they and did you have success in retrieving them? Plus, how many papers and claim forms were you required to fill out? There must be some interesting stories in the air. Hope they’re some with happy endings.
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Staying healthy when you travel is essential. Ned Levi has 10 tips for you to help keep you healthy during your travels, through planning and prevention. Ned’s column includes numerous Internet links to help in your travel health planning.
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Baldanza defends cabin bag fee, meets with government officials The CEO of Spirit Airlines came to Washington to defend his airline’s decision to impose carry-on baggage fees. CEO Ben Baldanza met with Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, FAA Administrator Randy Babbit and a clutch of Senators and Congressmen. He also addressed the International Aviation Club.
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Earlier this week, Spirit Airlines announced it would begin charging for carry-on luggage. That drew criticism from the Secretary of Transportation, who I interviewed on Wednesday. I wanted to give Ben Baldanza, Spirit’s chief executive, an opportunity to respond — and to explain the rationale behind charging for carry-on bags. Here’s our interview.
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News I thought was a joke — Paying for carry-ons, corpse smuggled aboard plane, running of the Peeps
Yesterday had two headlines that I was certain were jokes — stories that someone perhaps picked up by mistake from The Onion, a satirical newspaper based in our nation’s capital. But I was wrong. Here are the headlines: “Spirit Air to charge for carry-ons,” “Women arrested for smuggling corpse” and “Today’s Running of the Peeps trades horns for marshmallow.”
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Calling it the “next phase” of unbundling, Spirit Airlines a few hours ago announced that it would begin charging passengers for carry-on luggage. Seriously.
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Ned Levi discusses packing your carry-ons defensively to to reduce passengers’ problems at security, and the risks of breakage or lost or stolen luggage by anticipating potential carry-on woes.
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Hundreds of readers responded to our survey earlier this month asking about the need for federal regulation of carry-on luggage. Our readers clearly voted that we don’t need a federal law and, even more strongly, they don’t want TSA enforcing any such law. Respondents blame the airlines for adding to the problem with luggage fees and then not policing their own policies.
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