

Air Travel Guide
As travelers, the vast majority of us will travel by plane at one time or another. And while much of the air travel experience is either second nature to travel veterans or easy to figure out even for newbies, there are some things that it helps to learn about before you’re heading for the airport for the first time. Besides, although airplanes and airports the world over have lots of similarities, there are also regional differences which are important to learn about.
In this section, you’ll find links to help you get the best deals on airfare to anywhere, from anywhere. You’ll even learn how to sleep in airports – if that’s something you’re going to need to do at any point in your journey, you’ll be glad you read about it in advance and were prepared!
We’re constantly adding to this and the other sections of the Traveler’s Toolkit to keep providing you with the best travel information, but if you find something missing or discover an error, please let us know! And heck, if you think you can contribute to our bank of knowledge, by all means send us an article. We love hearing your stories.
Some pages you might find helpful:
- “Ask the Pilot” Collection
- 2003 Air Travel Awards
- 9/11 Commission Report
- Aborted Landings
- Advanced Warning of Pan Am 103 Bombing
- Air Force One Spotting
- Air Travel with an Infant
- Airline Gold Standards
- Airline Hits
- Airline Pop Songs
- Airline Reading
- Airline Reviews
- Airline Safety
- Airline Tradition
- Airplane Cabin Pressure
- Airplane Engine Fire
- Airplane Engine Pops
- Airplane Finding Runways in Fog
- Airplane Fuel Versus Other Types of Fuel
- Airplane Glide to Landings
- Airplane History of Flight
- Airplane Take Off Bumping
- Airplane Water Landings
- Airplanes and Hollywood
- Airplanes Making Up for Lost Time
- Airport Reviews
- Aloha Airlines flight 243
- Amount of Fuel an Airplane Carries
- Amount of Turbulence an Airplane Can Handle
- Annie Jacobsen, Terrorism and the Fear of Flying
- Arab Attacks Aimed at US Flights
- Are Airplane Flotation Devices Actually Useful?
- Are Commuter Planes Ex-Commerical Planes?
- Avoiding Asian and African Airline Carriers
- Best Flying Moments
- Bizarre Plane Crashes
- Can Wind Rip off Airplane Wings?
- Cheap Pilots
- Code Shares and Airplane Thrust Reversals
- Code Sharing Between Airlines
- Conspiracy Theories and Flight 77
- Conspiracy Theories and Plane Crashes
- Conspiracy Theory and Annie Jacobsen
- Decreasing Flow of Oxygen to Save Fuel on Airplanes
- Design of Airplanes
- Difference Between Pilot, Copilot and Captain
- Does Dinging Signal Cabin Crews?
- Double Decker Revolutionizing Air Travel
- Egypt Crash and Safety of Thrid World Airlines
- Emergency Landing
- Engine Fire in Flight
- Explaining Three Letter Airport Codes
- Female Pilots
- Flames from Airplane Engine
- Flight Observation
- Flights Taking Off Toward Ocean or Mountain Incline
- Flotation Devices When Flying Domestically
- Fuel and Circling
- General Maintenance
- Getting a Pilot’s License
- Guns in the Cockpit
- History of Aeroflot
- How Does an Airplane Stop so Quickly?
- How worried should we be about shoulder-launched missiles being fired at civilian aircraft?
- Icing and Crashes
- Impressive Piloting
- Incapacitated Crew In Flight
- Japan Plane Crash and Breaking Tail
- Key Subset for Airline Cockpit
- Landing Airplanes on Autopilot
- Largest Airline in the World
- Laser Beams
- Lightning Striking Airplane
- Long Haul Flights and Misc. News
- Longest Nonstop Flight in the World
- Losing an Engine: A Personal Experience
- Low Approach Flights
- Major Accidents on Same Day
- Most Embarrassing Thing as a Pilot
- No US Airline Flights to Africa
- Numbers Along the Edge of the Runway
- Ocean Crossings with Minimum Three Engines
- Oldest Airline in the World
- Opening Emergency Doors Mid-flight
- Operating Airliners Versus Single-Engine Private Planes
- Operating Emergency Doors in Flight
- Panicked Flight Crew
- Pilot as a Dangerous Profession
- Pilot Not Trained for Fog
- Pilot’s View of September 11
- Pilots Paying for Own Training
- Planes Carry Extra Fuel
- Poor Thrust Fallback on Takeoff
- Pre-Flight Safety Briefing
- Price of an Airliner
- Puncture in Fuselage
- Religion, Food and Airlines
- Safest Commercial Planes
- Safety, Terrorism and Airplane Security
- Salaries of Airline Pilots
- Speaking Up About Airplane Issues
- Spelling of Airlines
- Steep Airplane Banks
- Store Tray Table for Takeoff and Landing
- Surviving a Water Landing With a Seat Cushion
- Tackling Terrorism
- Taking on Extra Fuel
- Ten Worst Airplane Crashes in History
- Terror in the Skies, Again?
- The Economist and Airlines
- The world’s largest airliner takes to the sky
- Toilets Emptied in Flight
- Too Hot to Fly
- Trail of Mist Behind Airplane Wingtip
- Transponder Turn Off
- Travel Through Rough Weather
- Travelers Get Lousy Airline Advice
- Trip Down Memory Lane: Historical Planes
- UAL and Pan Am
- Unfounded Fear
- Uphill Runways
- US Downing of Iranian Jet
- What do Pilots Carry?
- What Happened to TWA FLight 800?
- What is the purpose of the complicated watches I always see pilots wearing?
- What Planes Reach Destinations Faster
- Who Cancels and Delays Airline Flights?
- WTC Hijackers and Airplane Training
- Air Travel Links
- How to Sleep in Airports










