Travel Week in Review – March 24th, 2023

Whether for work or play, international travel requires plenty of planning. And while that’s true for the details of your trip—where you’ll go and what you’ll do—it’s also true for the “what ifs,” including: What if I get sick? Fortunately, there’s a lot you can do both before you take off and while you’re traveling to best prepare yourself for the unfortunate yet common reality of sickness and injury abroad. In advance of your next overseas trip, follow these just-in-case guidelines to prepare. Read More…

Connecting flights is stressful, to begin with, and adding checked baggage to the mix only complicates things. Knowing whether or not you have to recheck a suitcase on a connecting flight is confusing, and making the wrong choice could mean your bag gets lost or you go through security unnecessarily. No matter what airline you’re flying, if you have a connecting flight that arrives in the United States from an international destination, you’ll need to pick up your bags and recheck them on your next flight. Read More…

When you purchase an airline seat, you are required to acknowledge that you agree to the contract of carriage, a legally binding agreement between you and the airline, usually by checking a box next to the phrase “I agree to the terms and conditions of the contract of carriage” or some variation thereof. The airline is only obligated to get you from point A to point B. Everything else that comes with it (reserved seating, overhead bin space, baggage allowance, and food & beverage service) is at the discretion of the airline. Read More…

The union representing flight attendants across the country is making another push to end the policy of infants being allowed to fly on the lap of an adult. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) and its nearly 50,000 members are pushing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and airlines to require all passengers to have their own seats on flights, regardless of age. Read More…

Brazil will again require travelers from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan to complete an entry visa for travel to the country. The renewed requirement will go into effect from October 1, 2023. The move to suspend visa requirements took place in 2019 by then, the president in order to facilitate tourism; however, the aforementioned countries continued to require visas from Brazilians for travel into each. “The 2019 decision to lift visa requirements had weakened Brazil’s ability to negotiate with those countries.” Read More…