Tag: Air Travel

  • 10 Black Women Bought First-Class Tickets. What Happened Next Exposed a Deeper Problem

    10 Black Women Bought First-Class Tickets. What Happened Next Exposed a Deeper Problem

    Ten Black women walked into an airport with first-class tickets and discovered that, for some people around them, the tickets still did not seem to make sense. The women had paid for their seats, earned their careers, and had every right to be in the priority lines. Yet their presence was met with questions, assumptions,…

  • TSA Opens Airport Gates To Some Travelers Without Tickets

    TSA Opens Airport Gates To Some Travelers Without Tickets

    For nearly 25 years, the airport security checkpoint has been the place where most American travelers say their final goodbyes. That is now changing at a handful of U.S. airports, where certain people without plane tickets can once again walk through security and reach the gates. The Transportation Security Administration has launched Gateside by TSA…

  • Palm Beach Airport Renamed for Trump, a First for a Sitting US President

    Palm Beach Airport Renamed for Trump, a First for a Sitting US President

    At 5:01 in the morning on Thursday, July 9, a Boeing 757 touched down on a runway in West Palm Beach, Florida. The aircraft belongs to the Trump Organization and carries the nickname Trump Force One. Eric Trump was aboard, and by the time the wheels met asphalt, the airport receiving him no longer bore…

  • Airports Are Bringing Back Gate Goodbyes After Decades

    Airports Are Bringing Back Gate Goodbyes After Decades

    For the first time in more than two decades, a scene many Americans assumed was gone for good is quietly returning to airports across the country: loved ones walking together all the way to the gate. For years, airports have been places of rushed curbside hugs, shouted goodbyes through car windows, and solitary walks through…

  • Airline Sparks Outrage with Controversial New Plus-Size Seating Rule

    Airline Sparks Outrage with Controversial New Plus-Size Seating Rule

    January 27, 2026, marks more than just another date on Southwest Airlines’ calendar. It represents the final transformation of an airline that once prided itself on being different from every other carrier in the sky. Behind closed doors at the Dallas-based airline’s headquarters, executives face mounting pressure from activist investors demanding higher profits and revenue…