Save Big on Flights and Hotels With Thrifty Traveler Premium If you love a good travel deal, you’ll want to check out Thrifty Traveler Premium — a subscription service that sends curated flight and hotel deals straight to your inbox…. Johnny Jet , February 13, 2026
Southwest’s New Assigned Seating Is Off to a Rocky Start — Here’s What Travelers Need to Know Southwest Airlines officially ended one of the most recognizable boarding systems in aviation two weeks ago, replacing its decades-old open seating model with assigned seats. But according to CBS News,… Johnny Jet , February 13, 2026
Apple Just Released AirTag 2.0 and It’s Even Better for Travelers This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. For an explanation of our… Johnny Jet , January 31, 2026
Heathrow’s New Security Scanners Are Changing The Way You Travel One of my standard travel tips for anyone flying through London Heathrow (LHR) has always been simple: be prepared for strict, slow and often frustrating security. For years, Heathrow was… Johnny Jet , January 29, 2026
Inside a Pilot’s First Landing at Toronto Pearson During a Historic Snowstorm Captain Chris, a Virgin Atlantic pilot who is active on social media, picked quite a time to make his first visit to Canada. On his Sunday evening arrival, Toronto Pearson… Johnny Jet , January 28, 2026
American Airlines Meltdown: 34x More Cancellations Than Delta and United as Flight Attendants Sleep on Airport Floors After this weekend’s monumental storm, it’s still a mess out there, especially for American Airlines (AA) passengers and crew. That’s right, even AA’s flight attendants can’t get home, and some… Johnny Jet , January 28, 2026
How to Book a Stopover and Turn One Trip Into Two (Sometimes With a Free Hotel) A reader asked: “I was just reading about how people can book stopovers on long flights to stay in midpoint cities for hours or days. Sometimes the airlines even cover… Johnny Jet , January 28, 2026
Escaping the Storm: NYC to LAX Trip Report With Upgrades, Subway and Shuttle Tips If you’re following along with my travels this week, this is the final installment. Here are the first three reports: Trip Report: Flying United 787 from LAX to Newark Uber… Johnny Jet , January 25, 2026
Uber Shuttle From EWR to NYC: Cheap, Easy and Worth It? Here’s part two of my trip to NYC. Part one was my United flight from LAX to Newark (EWR). When I landed at EWR, I planned to take the AirTrain… Johnny Jet , January 24, 2026
Trip Report: Flying United 787 from LAX to Newark I was supposed to fly Tuesday to JFK, but when I dropped my kids off at school, my six-year-old started crying and said, “Daddy, do you really have to go… Johnny Jet , January 24, 2026
New Study Reveals Which U.S. Airlines Have the Cleanest Water — and Which Don’t If you’re a longtime subscriber to my newsletter, you know I’ve written before about how dirty airplane water can be. But a new 2026 Airline Water Study from the Center… Johnny Jet , January 9, 2026
From Toronto to Florida: How I Almost Missed My Cruise Greetings from The Bahamas! We spent Christmas in Toronto with my wife’s family. From there we needed to get to South Florida for a cruise I booked almost two years… Johnny Jet , December 30, 2025
TSA Shares Their ‘Best Tip’ to Make Security Quicker Are you or someone you know traveling this week or in 2026? If yes, then you will want to know the TSA ‘best tip’ they just shared on X (formerly… Johnny Jet , December 26, 2025
What It’s Like to Fly Air Tahiti Within French Polynesia I wrote about what it was like to fly Air Tahiti Nui from LAX to Papeete but if you’re traveling inter-island once you get to Tahiti, here’s what my experience… Johnny Jet , December 26, 2025
2026 Travel Trends: Where to Go, How to Save and What to Splurge On Travel in 2026 is shaping up to be different from anything we’ve seen in recent years. According to Going’s 2026 State of Travel & Flight Deals report, the way people… Johnny Jet , December 8, 2025
