It's been a bad winter for air travel.
Last week's snowstorms were the latest unpleasant episode, resulting in the cancellation of 20,000 passenger airline flights and disrupting the plans of an estimated 700,000 travelers, according to flight-tracking firm FlightAware.
So given the possibility of further weather-related hassles in the near future — on Monday, for example, much of the central U.S. was covered by a National Weather Service "winter weather alert" — what's an air traveler to do? More
While a summer abroad can be a great way for college-age kids to learn crucial lessons about self-reliance, responsibility and foreign cultures, let's face it: Often those lessons cost a lot more than you'd want them to. Yes, the dollar is up more than 10% in value against the euro since last summer. But it's still a threat to a student's (and his whole family's) finances to be on MORE
Jasmin Sun - Jul 3, 2010 9:10 AM ET
It's official: The fee you hate more than all the others in your life is the one for checking your luggage when you take an airplane trip.
Following up on a story in the July issue of MONEY about 15 irritating fees — and how to avoid them — the More Money blog spent the past two weeks asking readers to pick what they thought were the most frustrating surcharges out MORE
George Mannes - Jun 30, 2010 4:18 PM ET
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