Travel

Last year, airlines in the US posted their highest profits in more than a decade — but all that money sure didn’t buy a lot of customer satisfaction.

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How far would you walk for a cause?

Erik Bendl has become known as “World Guy,” and just keeps walking and walking to bring attention to diabetes. So far he’s walked more than four thousand miles, including East Texas.

He’s gained quite a Facebook following, and he has fans and followers on his blog. He’s just now passing through East Texas. Did you see him? We’ll recap where he’s been.

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Beach vacations often seem to be aimed at singles or couples — but if you have kids and still want a sandy summer trek, you might find a new list of the best US beaches for families pretty helpful.

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In a video that won’t be making the already unpopular TSA any new friends, a 3-year-old toddler in a wheelchair is seen being searched by a TSA agent at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.

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Orlando Sanford International Airport officials say they will take advantage of a new law, and try again to opt out of using TSA workers to screen passengers.  They want to hire their own screeners to do that, but using federal standards and under federal oversight.

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If you’re still feeling the winter blues, you might want to consider taking a little trip to one of happiest states in the United States. A new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index asked 353,000 randomly-selected people questions regarding the quality of life where they live.

Unsurprisingly, the happiest state in the US is…

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Growing numbers of people are traveling really long distances to get to work.  Many even travel hundreds of miles from their homes to their jobs.  They take a combination of cars, planes, trains and buses to get from home to the office, and back.

These people are known as -- what else -- "super-commuters."

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Important travel tip: when you’re piloting a plane, it’s essential to enunciate well so that passengers can tell the difference between “bomb” and “mom.” That’s a lesson a Southwest Airlines pilot learned the hard way.

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