Sometime during my walk in Sedona's Slide Rock State Park, an elderly man who had been walking on the path nearby looked at me and sighed, "Everywhere is beautiful".
He had dropped a few words from the sentence, but I...

If you are looking for an inspiring place to spend Earth Day, where better than the Grand Canyon where the reasons to protect the environment fill the eye in every direction? Four and a half million people from all over the world travel to see where...

The pilot of an emergency medical helicopter was text messaging before and during the flight that ended in disaster near an airport in Mosby, Mo. in 2011. His actions and his distraction were cited as contributing factors in the crash that killed four people on board...

The womph, womph, womph made me stop in my tracks and look up. It was the sound of wings, big wings, wings big enough to make the use of the verb "flapping" seem inappropriately diminutive. Above me I saw a large white bird pummeling the sky on its descent to...

For a story I wrote for the New York Times< in the summer of 2011, I spent a week training to be a flight attendant with Emirates. Every day, I walked from my hotel in Dubai to the metro stop and boarded a train to the aviation academy...

There's no better way to see the ebb and flow in the world
of aviation than to go back and review the events of the past year. As I look at what I saw fit to write about in 2012, I appreciate the unconventional approach some airlines...

Well I must have touched a nerve when I wrote in September about the lack of space for working on a laptop when traveling in the cheap seats on most airlines. I was back from Japan and at my desk about one minute when Lenovo offered...

The smaller the world gets, the harder it it is to discover something truly unique. So I was excited when on a recent trip to Morocco with Access Trips, I was able to visit the Assous Argan Oil Cooperative about 40 miles east of the coastal...

Passengers think of airline seats mostly in terms of space and comfort (most often noticing the absence of both) but the news that American Airlines has grounded eight of the Boeing 757s in its fleet after some seats shifted in flight is all about safety.

"There...

I can't believe it was just one year ago that my internet-savvy daughter, Marian Schembari told me about Airbnb. I was visiting her in New Zealand headed to the United Arab Emirates and -- as is my wont -- had not yet booked a hotel in...

Even as I was grumbling about the seat pitch on the Japan Airlines Dreamliner where I was otherwise enjoyably ensconced in row 48 for 13 hours on Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board was poised to ask the Federal Aviation...

I don't know how many times Qantas executives boo-hooed since upstart airlines headquartered in the Persian Gulf started eating the lunches of established flag carriers, but in public, Qantas boss Alan Joyce has made no secret of his resentment of Emirates and to a lesser extent Qatar and Etihad.

As...

At Revel, the fancy resort where I watched Atlantic City's airshow, the weekend was dubbed "Come Fly With Me."

At the bar, specially created nightcaps had enticing names like Up, Up and Away, Howard Hughes, The Earhart, and Wright on Track. Promotional material put out by...

HOT CHICK

Yeah, I was hot. Very hot. It was 95 degrees on a cloudless August day. High noon and not a breeze blowing at Sant'Agata Bolognese in northern Italy.

And there was this fast car, a Lamborghini Gallardo Performante all muscle and noise, low to the ground, packing...

It is not my habit to visit popular tourist destinations in the high season, but here I am in Venice in August when the population of 60,000 swells to a million or more. Considering that each of us will pelt the natives with some version of this question, "Do you...

Outside of Australia and perhaps France, there has been remarkably little attention paid to the very, very, very, near disaster that befell Qantas Airlines Flight 32 on November 4, 2010. This, you will recall, was the Airbus A380 with 469 people on board that suffered an uncontained engine...

Are they sleepless in Seattle? I'm guessin' the answer is yes, now that Airbus has confirmed it is fixin' to build a A320neo assembly plant in Mobile, Ala., less than 650 miles from Boeing's just opened Dreamliner factory in South Carolina. Mobilians and their new best friends, the French, are...

There's something about the frequency with which the expression, "trade war" was used this week at the meeting of the International Air Transport Association, that led me to believe this particular form of saber rattling was 100 percent intentional.

Of all the issues troubling the world's airlines, the...

I couldn't know it at the time, but that dinner served to me on Air China Flight 982 to Beijing would typify my experience during my week-long stay here. It was an unassuming little plate of vegetables, cooked vegetables, not my favorite way of eating greens frankly. But...

Writing from Beijing

Advice for all non-Mandarin speaking visitors to the China Aviation Museum: bring a guide! Second tip: Read all you can about China's aviation history before you go, including Gregory Crouch's China's Wings. Third and last: wear comfortable shoes.

Like Arizona's Pima...