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It's always pretty tempting. You're sitting in the gate area and hear the voice on the loudspeaker, offering travel vouchers and other perks if you'll give up your seat because your flight is oversold. You know the drill ... "if your travel plans are ...

OK, so you gave up your flight or maybe the airline is somehow trying to kiss your butt and you ended up with a big ol voucher. You figure that's as good as cash, right? Wrong. According to this LA Times piece, pparently airlines give away these ...

Think you have the ultimate travel story? Hostelworld.com is celebrating its 10th anniversary and wants to hear about your best travel adventure of the last decade. Tell your inspiring, amazing, crazy or hilarious tale and you may win a €500 ...

This story reads like something you'd see in a movie scene. It actually would make a good movie scene if you could build a movie around it. This funny tale came our way from Christopher Elliot's blog. Elliot, problem solver extraordinaire sometimes ...

No, bumping is not the latest craze to hit European dance floors, it's what airlines do when they have more passengers than seats. Chances are that you've been waiting in the departure gate area and have heard the gate agents ask for volunteers for a ...

According to the Department of Transportation, more people were involuntarily bumped from their flights last year than in over a decade. The total comes to a whopping 63,000 very angry passengers who had no choice but to give up their seats because ...

A crowd pissed all over Wizz Air's attempt to release 1,000 balloons into the sky. The low-cost airline had hoped to celebrate its fifth anniversary, but the Hungarian crowd was drawn to the event by the rumor of freebies hooked to the balloons ...

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Pamela Root, who was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight Friday, will receive another chance to fly on the airline. She and her son were removed from a San Jose-bound plane when her two-year-old son wouldn't stop screaming "Go! Plane! Go!" and ...

Need a change of pace for your holiday shopping? Try Berlin! A new deal from the Hotel Concorde will make this year's hunt for the perfect Christmas present more exciting than ever. The "Shop in the City" package starts with luxurious accommodations ...

As Halloween approaches and the weather gets cooler, we realize that winter in the northern US, with its short hours of daylight and negative wind-chill factors, is just around the corner. Suddenly, it seems like there's no better time to book a ...

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This morning, Callpod announced the newest addition to their product lineup. If you haven't been paying attention to my product reviews, you'll have missed that Callpod make some of the best portable charging gear on the market. Their Chargepod can ...

Like many other travelers in 2007, I've experienced several flight delays. Since I mostly traveled from Anchorage to Seattle, none of the delays were that big of a deal -- I usually ended up exhausted (I always have to fly on red-eyes, and it's a ...

When the five people who ranged from an R& B singer moving to NYC to seek her fortune-- to a young man trying to get to Hartford, Connecticut and his sick grandmother as quickly as possible, sidled up to the Greyhound ticket counter in Port ...