air travel
Customized Boarding Passes Can Hack Computers
Yang Yu and his team created their own series of boarding passes and programmed different commands into each that would be read by the scanner.
A Travel Hacker Explains How to Fly Around the World for Free
Brian Kelly, a.k.a. "the Points Guy," told me what I needed to do to come out ahead in my interactions with credit card companies.
Pope Francis’s Plane Food Is Way Better Than Yours
Despite claims that pizza-loving Pope Francis is under strict medical orders to eat only fish and rice, it sounds like he enjoyed one hell of an in-flight meal.
A Woman Says She Was Harassed by the TSA for 'Flying While Trans'
Shadi Petosky's tweets about missing her flight thanks to hostile airport security officers have gone viral, but the TSA insists it's done nothing wrong.
A Woman Chugged an Entire Bottle of Cognac Rather than Give It to Airport Security
This Chinese woman was stopped in Beijing for having a bottle of Cognac in her carry-on. What else could she do but pound the entire bottle on the spot? But then, of course, she wasn't feeling so good.
This Airport Is Serving Food with "Happy Hormones" to Passengers
If you thought some mini-bottles of whisky and a handful of crushed up Ambien were the key to activating your happy hormones, guess again.
Suspected Russian Missile Parts Found at MH17 Crash Site
Prosecutors warned it cannot yet be concluded that there is "a causal connection between the discovered parts and the crash of flight MH17."
Cecil Outcry Prompts Major Airlines to Ban Shipment of Hunting 'Trophies'
In the face of mounting public pressure following Cecil the lion's death, three major US airlines have become the latest to ban the transportation of big game trophies on their planes.
Not Expanding Heathrow Would Be Crazy, and Here's Why
Ideally, London would not have to build a brand new $78 billion island in the Thames called "Boris."
'Wow, Pulled Back on the Wrong Throttle,' Said TransAsia Crash Pilot Seconds Before Impact
Flight safety officials report that the pilot of TransAsia flight GE235 mistakenly switched off the plane's only working engine before it crashed in Taiwan in February, killing 43 people.
Could History Repeat Itself with Mexico City’s Ambitious Airport Plan?
Mexico wants to begin operating the new capital airport by 2020, but opposition figures, environmentalists, and the community of San Salvador Atenco are already crying foul over the project.
Your Next Flight Out of LAX Could Be Fueled By Beef Fat
AltAir Fuels is a company based in the LA area that’s currently retrofitting a Paramount, California tallow refinery to produce jet fuel from beef fat.