I talk a lot about flying with kids on this site, but what if you are ready for your child to fly without you? Each year, millions of parents trust their kids to the airlines, allowing them to fly solo to a destination as an unaccompanied minor. Whether your child is traveling to visit extended …
United Airlines
I’m often asked by fellow traveling parents: “What is the best airline to fly with kids?” Air travel with kids can be stressful even in the best of circumstances, so it’s only natural that families want to fly an airline that makes things easier. If only the answer were so simple. For United States based …
Late yesterday, United Airlines made some serious waves in the brave new world of 2020 air travel. The airline announced that it was eliminating change fees. United previously charged non-elite passengers who wanted to change their flights to another date or time a whopping $200 per ticket over and above any difference in fare. Just …
Flying with kids can be a challenge. But sometimes airlines can make it harder by throwing a curveball your way with a unique rule or requirement that you weren’t expecting on your travel day. My family has flown on pretty much every US airline and quite a few international carriers over the years. While the basics …
As a San Francisco-based flyer, United is one of my hometown airlines. The airline has had a rocky past few years since the merger with Continental. Service has been criticized and my family even mostly stopped flying United, opting instead for more family-friendly Southwest Airlines whenever possible. We’ve flown United a few times within the …
Every few weeks there seems to be another news story of someone kicked off a plane for questionable behavior. Often these stories involve young children. The airline’s story and the aggrieved passenger’s story are never the same. It is hard to know which version of the truth to accept. The viral story from a few …
I avoid Los Angeles’s main airport – LAX – like the plague. I’m lucky that I’m able to do so because I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is an excellent international and domestic gateway in its own right. Only very rarely does LAX have substantially better options for my travel needs. My family …
Although I try not to fly United much anymore, a recent trip to Charleston in March made it impossible to avoid my “favorite” hometown airline. But there was a silver lining to this dark cloud, as the trip offered me a chance to check out the recently opened Boarding Area E in United’s Terminal 3 at …
My family just recently booked flights to attend a family wedding this summer in Burlington, Vermont. As you might guess, Burlington has a pretty small airport and most flights into it are quite expensive, especially for our family traveling all the way from California. I monitored flights for months in hope of seeing a price …
I noticed with great disdain United’s latest cutback — the removal of complimentary alcohol on its international transpacific routes in the economy section. Since I usually travel with kids, I’m not taking advantage of much booze in the sky (as much as I might sometimes need it!), so this really is a minor change for …