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Should buying plane tickets be like buying cars?

When Loren Witkin says that he shopped around for a new car, you can take him at his word. Witkin combed through his local newspaper, consulted the Kelley Blue Book and clicked on...

Gross things can happen to good passengers

You board a plane and find your seat stained with bodily fluids. Now what?

Runway improvement planned

The Durango-La Plata County Airport is starting preliminary design work on a rehabilitation project of the main taxiway that is likely to start in 2015. Project engineer Ben Gonza...

Celebrate San Juan Skyway on Tuesday

A public meeting to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the San Juan Skyway is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the San Juan Public Lands Center, 15 Burnett Court. The San Juan...

U.S. eager to cater to Chinese tourists

COSTA MESA, Calif. – On a hot summer day, nearly two dozen Chinese tourists descended from a white shuttle bus for an afternoon of shopping at one of Southern California’s signature upscale ...

Passenger explains seat dispute, use of Knee Defender

NEW YORK – The businessman whose dispute with a fellow airline passenger over a reclined seat sparked a national debate about air-travel etiquette says he’s embarrassed by the way the confro...

To Kashgar and back Patience a virtue – and necessity – when traveling in China

This column is dedicated to my brother, Joseph Scott. Today is Joseph’s birthday. Xinjiang doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to Chinese provinces. Ask Han ...

Reclining an airline seat can be risky business

As space shrinks, confrontations more common between fliers

Are airlines profiting at your expense?

Why are airlines raking in record profits? Maybe they’re monetizing your personal data – selling your name, address and phone numbers to marketing “partners” without your explicit consent. ...

Johnny Cash’s colonial past

Famous singer raised on government collective in Arkansas

A few pictures can save you from damage claims

You don’t have to be an expert on photographic evidence to take snapshots of your rental car before you drive off the lot, but it helps. Just ask Steve Wolf, who happens to be an ...

Mimicking airlines, hotels get fee-happy

NEW YORK – Forget bad weather, traffic jams and kids asking, “Are we there yet?” The real headache for many travelers is a quickly-growing list of hotel surcharges, even for items they never...