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What higher jet fuel prices mean for air travelers : NPR

What higher jet fuel prices mean for air travelers : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Travelers gather at baggage claim station at Newark International Airport in Newark in March. Some passengers may be newly incentivized to stick to a carry-on as airlines increase checked bag fees. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images Delta became the latest U.S. airline to make headlines this week, with the news that it plans to eliminate food and beverage services from some of its short-haul flights. Starting on May 19, all passengers except those in Delta First will no longer get snacks or drinks on flights shorter than 350 miles — less than an hour in the air — an airline spokesperson told NPR in an email on Tuesday. Delta says it is making the change “to create a more consistent experience across our network.” The company says more people will now have access to full food and beverage service (as opposed to express service), since it will be newly available to all economy passengers on flights over 350 miles. Delta’s snack update isn’t being advertised as …

Low on PTO? Join the Gen Z travelers taking international ‘microtrips’

Low on PTO? Join the Gen Z travelers taking international ‘microtrips’

Published by Sam Flores

One Friday night last year, Akylah Cox and her boyfriend took a red-eye flight from Pennsylvania to Dublin for a whirlwind adventure. The trip lasted less than 30 hours. They hit up an impressive number of spots: the Guinness Storehouse, the Book of Kells experience at Trinity College, Ha’penny Bridge, Capel Street for thrifting (“I gave myself only 30 minutes to do this, but it had to get done,” Cox says) and the Celtic Nights dinner and show. They were back home on Sunday and went to work the next day. She shared her experience on TikTok with the caption, “Was this crazy?!” The responses varied. “I would be tired the rest of the week,” one person commented with two woozy-face emojis. “This inspired me!” another said. “I’m tryna be this level crazy,” commented another. Akylah Cox and boyfriend Akram Imam in Dublin in February 2025. (Akylah Cox) For Cox, who was working full time in engineering and pursuing an MBA while her boyfriend was completing his medical residency, creating an ultra-compacted itinerary was the …

Travelers pay airport security fees, while TSA is not paid : NPR

Travelers pay airport security fees, while TSA is not paid : NPR

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Travelers and staff walk through Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., on Friday. U.S. Transportation Security Administration security officers missed their first full paycheck Friday as a partial funding shutdown of the government approached the one-month mark. Annabelle Gordon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Annabelle Gordon/AFP via Getty Images Millions of spring break travelers are heading to the airport this month, and Johnny Jones was hoping to be one of them. But the ongoing shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security forced his family to cancel its vacation plans. “I won’t be traveling anywhere, but I’ll be helping out getting people to where they’re going,” said Jones, a TSA security officer at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. He also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 100, which represents about 45,000 TSA officers nationwide. Those TSA officers have been working without pay since funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed on February 14th. They’ve already missed part of one paycheck, and many security officers received …

‘Fear of Flying Clinic’ helps anxious travelers back into the skies : NPR

‘Fear of Flying Clinic’ helps anxious travelers back into the skies : NPR

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Participants in the Fear of Flying Clinic walk up the boarding stairs and into a 787 as part of a four-day course to help ease their anxiety around air travel. Getting exposed to the sights and sounds of airplanes is one piece of that training. Evan Roberts hide caption toggle caption Evan Roberts It’s 20 minutes before Alaska Airlines Flight 626 takes off from San Francisco International Airport for Seattle. Colette Vance closes her eyes and calms herself with rosary beads, hoping that her claustrophobia doesn’t trigger a panic attack. It happened the year prior, when she was flying back to North Carolina for college. She had intense anxiety and felt as if she was about to die. “If I’m in a car, I can pull over, open my door and get some relief,” she says. “But when I’m in a plane, there’s no out.” After graduation, she avoided flying and drove home to California. The inconvenience of a cross-country road trip inspired her to confront her fear of flying. Colette Vance prays with rosary …

Audrey Niffenegger to Publish TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE Sequel and More Book News!

Audrey Niffenegger to Publish TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE Sequel and More Book News!

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Audrey Niffenegger is finally releasing a follow-up to her bestselling novel The Time Traveler’s Wife. The sequel, entitled Life Out of Order, follows violinist Alba DeTamble, the daughter of Henry DeTamble. Like her father, Alba experiences Chrono-Displacement Disorder, which causes her to shift in and out of different times. In a statement, Niffenegger says that her new novel has been an “all-consuming book for me; I will miss living in it, but I am happy to offer it to readers, at last.” Life Out of Order comes out on October 27, over twenty years after the release of The Time Traveler’s Wife. Hulu has acquired the rights to Amy DuBois Barnett’s debut novel If I Ruled the World. Barnett, the former editor-in-chief of Ebony, Teen People, Harper’s Bazaar, and Honey, based her first novel on her experiences as the first Black woman to helm a major magazine in the United States. The series adaptation will be produced by Lee Daniels and Emma Watts. Lee Daniels (Empire, Precious, The Deliverance) will also co-write the pilot episode …

Sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife to be published this autumn | The Time Traveler’s Wife

Sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife to be published this autumn | The Time Traveler’s Wife

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A follow-up to the 2003 blockbuster novel The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is set to be published this autumn. Life Out of Order, which Niffenegger worked on for 13 years, is set in the same world as the original novel. The Time Traveler’s Wife has sold more than 9m copies globally since its publication, and was adapted into a 2009 film starring Rachel McAdams, as well as an HBO series and a musical. The new book – due to be published on 27 October by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin, in the UK – is about the life of Alba DeTamble, the daughter of Henry and Clare, who are the characters at the centre of the original novel. Niffenegger wrote The Time Traveler’s Wife between 1997 and 2002, and “had no intention of writing any kind of sequel”. It was only years later that she had an idea for a follow-up story about Alba, which she began in November 2012. In the Time Traveler’s Wife, we learn that Henry has “Chrono-Displacement Disorder”, …