Air Travel
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 26th
“What I Did During My Summer Flight Delays.”
By Mary Lawton
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, July 20th
“I bet this flight will get cancelled, too.”
By Ali Solomon
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 27th
It’s high time for a new era in air travel.
By Kate Isenberg
The New Yorker Documentary
The Boys Who Ran Away from Home on a 747
In “Nothing to Declare,” two friends reminisce about stowing away on an international flight when they were just kids, and how parenting has changed since the nineteen-eighties.
Shouts & Murmurs
Introducing New Travel Experiences from the T.S.A.
Sign up for T.S.A. Postcheck, where we continue to keep tabs on you—in the way a sweet, caring friend would!
By Sara K. Runnels
Shouts & Murmurs
How to Train for Your First Flight in Two Years
A series of exercises in absurdity and frustration, to help you get ready for air travel.
By Ali Solomon
The New Yorker Interview
Rick Steves Says Hold On to Your Travel Dreams
The guidebook guru discusses a year and a half without seeing Europe, the next chapter in post-pandemic travel, and why you should order whatever beverage the locals are having.
By Rachel Syme
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 10th
“So suddenly I need to ‘show you papers’ and ‘not be fully nude’ to board an international flight? What freedoms will they take from us next?!”
By Jason Adam Katzenstein
Shouts & Murmurs
A Guide to Getting on an Airplane Again
It is possible that the person seated next to you will try to engage in unprompted and ultimately meaningless conversation. This is called “small talk.”
By Carlos Greaves
Annals of Technology
Will We Ever Fly Supersonically Over Land?
By turning sonic booms into sonic thumps, engineers hope to domesticate faster-than-sound transport.
By Matthew Hutson
Culture Desk
The Concorde and the Lost Glories of Commercial Air Travel
A new book pays tribute to the supersonic aircraft as an iconic design object, and reminds us that technological gains aren’t always permanent.
By Amanda Petrusich
Photo Booth
Stolen Moments of Solitude at the World’s Busiest Airport
By Charles BetheaPhotography by Mark Steinmetz