Spain is joining the anti-smoking party now with new laws against smoking in bars and restaurants. The new bans on smoking kill any hopes of establishments allowing smoking. Before the new laws went into...

While December is often the busiest travel season of the year, it's often followed by one of the slowest travel months of the year, January. While January gets kicked off with a bang for New Year's,...

  With only a few hours left in 2010, we here at CheapOair are already thinking about where to go in the new year. The travel addicted writers that make up the CheapOair travel blog got together and...

A 68-year-old man was arrested in Boise after he punched a teenage boy aboard a Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday night. According to police, the altercation took place during the landing of a flight...

As we say goodbye to 2010 and hello to 2011, those with the heart to travel or Christmas gifts to do so might want to consider spending their New Year's celebration abroad. What better way to bring in a...

  Alfred E. Kahn, the man credited with ending government control of the airline industry in the 1970s, passed away yesterday at age 93. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under President...

Chile’s LAN Airlines expects a planned merger with Brazil’s TAM Airlines to be approved in mid-2011, according to a top executive. The merger, which was originally announced in August, needs...

  If there's anything we learned about 2010 from travel, it's that it was a roller coaster year. From publicity stunts, to flight attendants jumping out of airplanes, to snow blizzards, to...

What would normally be a time of travelers coming in from the holidays has been eerily quiet due to the snowstorm that struck the East Coast. There are no planes departing and no planes arriving at LaGuardia...

Boeing has announced a plan to once again increase the production rate of its popular 777 aircraft. The company said this week that it plans to increase production to 8.3 planes per month starting in...

Japan Airlines recently unveiled a plan to install bamboo wheelchairs at two airports in early 2011. The chairs are part of a pilot program aimed at reducing the length of screening processes at...

  Travel in the New Year will have an array of influences with anniversaries, events, celebrities and the economy, from royal weddings in London to the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks in...

After flights were suspended due to heavy snowfalls, flights have begun taking off again at Dublin Airport.  Roughly 100 flights were grounded and cancelled after the airport was shut down for three...

Palms Springs International Airport is the latest airport to receive the controversial full-body scanner. The Transportation Security Administration is attempting to install roughly 500 of the much talked...