Laurie's light travel travel tips

Either staff have been instructed to spin the story or this is genuinely a nothing burger, I am not sure. But, there is just a minimal amount of foot traffic through Terminal A, which has been consistent for about the past two hours. I asked a Jet Blue agent if this was a normal night, and she said yes, for a Tuesday. She also didn't see any difference in terms of air traffic controllers showing up to work. Yet, speaking to a TSA agent sheds a different light. "We have to work for fear of retribution," she told me, "even if we aren't getting paid." I told the agent thank you for working and I hoped the government shutdown didn't last long. As I look around me in the airport , though, I cannot help but wonder if people are staying away for fear of another airline incident. I mean, who wants to get on a plane knowing the air traffic controllers aren't getting paid? The U.S. shutdown has entered its seventh day. It was just reported that across the cou...

Whether you're flying to San Francisco for the weekend or London for the winter, there's only one airline to consider. And if this sounds like an advertisement, that's fine; no one is paying me to praise this marvelous party-in-the-sky (as I once tweeted after my flight). It's too perfect. From the moment you climb aboard, the soft purple and blue LED lights in the aisles immediately transport you. It's at once romantic and hypnotic, space-age and new age, all rolled into one. You'll feel like someone is about to meet you for a cocktail, but you won't know who until you find yourself marrying them in Reno a week later. Once, on a Virgin flight from London, the steward actually sat down with this examiner and just chatted me up for several minutes. The flight was fairly sparse, and I had needs (chatty needs) and he obliged. That's the point: Virgin flight attendants are intuitive, not robotic. They won't push in-your-face drink carts if you need to d...