The end of the year–any year, I guess–is a good time for reflection. And since my ramblings here have to do mostly with travel, I was thinking earlier about some...

BOSTON–Yes, it is indeed good to be home. It always is. I arrived on a British Airways flight and the equipment was a Boeing 747, which is, I suppose, the...

I’m not very good at recognizing the various passenger jets flying around these days. They all look pretty much the same to me. I can usually spot the Boeing 777....

I was reading this morning about a United Airlines flight that encountered sudden and severe turbulence. It was somewhere over Wyoming, I think. A couple of crew members and two...