I’ve always enjoyed visiting Saint Louis, the wonderful Missouri locale strategically located near the confluence of the Mississippi and...

Commercial airliners navigate with pinpoint accuracy since modern cockpit computers give precise route coordination. The GPS (Global...

Just about everyone is aware that our neighbor to the north has no shortage of natural beauty, including mountains and frozen tundra, as...

Have you heard the latest? Finnair started weighing some passengers and their carry-on luggage last month for select flights departing...

One of my most unforgettable trips occurred a while back and it took place during the first of my annual January journeys to India. It...

Early airfields and airports grew from the use of airplanes for military, agricultural, airmail, and even aerial observation purposes....

As followers of this blog are aware, in addition to being an AvGeek, I’m also a history buff and have been traveling to the US...

We all know that international Business Class continues to improve, soaring to new heights with sliding doors becoming the norm and...

My post of July 15 last year titled On The Mountaintop, discussed a trip we made in May to Young Harris, Georgia, where we reconnected...

Horror stories abound about nearly missing flights and it’s even happened to frequent travelers, myself included. But, the next time...

Before I tell you about how I spent my free time while visiting Jakarta, I thought it best to give you a little background information....

What makes an airport great? There’s more to it than scheduled service from pleasant surroundings. To be considered among the best, it...

I fondly recall how excited I was when I had to make a business trip to Indonesia and its capital city of Jakarta a while back. While I’d...

Over the years, the Boeing 777 family has proven to be one of the US manufacturer's most popular designs, with more than 1,700 examples...

None of us would argue that long-haul flying today looks very different than it did some 80 or 90 years ago. Today, we fly thousands of...

Istanbul, the far-off city in Turkey, has always held a fascination for me as it’s steeped in history. It was the capital of the...

Readers of this post have often seen references to the US Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 as being responsible for seismic shifts in the...

I had an opportunity to visit Mexico City on business and can report it to be a most worthwhile locale with excellent food, great...

One hundred twenty years ago next Sunday - December 17, 1903 - history was made by two unknown brothers who changed the world on an...

It was yet another business trip that brought me to Amsterdam, the Northern European metropolis of over one million residents. I flew in...