Ed Perkins

For any upcoming trips, many of you will turn to a travel adviser to help with the arrangements — some for the first time. When internet travel agencies and search...

If you're planning to travel this fall or early winter, you should probably be aware of how the major consumer issues in travel are faring—and where they might be going...

If you're anything like I am, you're both (1) caged up at home for the foreseeable future and (2) actively planning or at least considering travel again as soon as...

By now, you've probably heard that Alaska, American, Delta, Hawaiian, and United will eliminate change fees on most nonrefundable tickets next year. That means a policy currently in force due...

I'm taking some time off from the dreary and seemingly endless Covid-19 story to look at a consumer agenda for whatever future administration and Congress we get in 2021. Basically,...

At some point, you'll decide the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic will be low enough that you can start traveling again. It may be months; it may be a year...

Little in the way of good news has emerged in the month since my last status update. Presumably, if you're traveling at all, you're taking regional road trips, not flying,...

The concept of force majeure, "Act of God" in some constructs, is well established in law. The basic idea is that unexpected events that seriously disrupt human activities -- hurricanes,...

Family groups flying together should not have to pay extra seat-selection fees to be assured of sitting together. That relatively simple and obvious proposition has nevertheless been ignored by airlines...