Delhi Airport Layovers Fly By in Comfort
Since it opened three years ago, the Plaza Premium Lounge has been greeting passengers at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India with a full menu of “Nap & Shower”...
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Should Parents Drug Their Kids On Flights?
Would you sedate your child on a flight? Are parents who do so wrong?A Wall Street Journal article reported that many parents "drug" or sedate their...
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Drugging Kids on Planes
When we created a Travel Video PostCard video a year or more ago about the practice of some parents giving their kids Benadryl or a related...
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Ten Things To Remember Before You Fly
This past year I've been up in the air on a variety of airlines, and left up in the air -- by air travel, hotel, car rental and computer glitches -- more times than I can ever recall. I hope my...
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Stress Free Flying While Pregnant
You can keep air travel stress-free with some tips on keeping it healthy, especially important if you're pregnant. You may have just received the news that you’re expecting and you already...
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Healthy Vacations During Pregnancy
Pregnancy, vacation and good health can mix easily -- even travel by air shouldn't be a problem -- as long as you follow a few common sense tips from Doc Holiday. Just make sure your physician...
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Grandparent Travel: Multigenerational Travel And Touring Grows
Multigenerational travel keeps on growing as a segment of the family market and if you don't believe us, let the numbers speak. And while you're at it, here are some great organized tours for two...
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Cathay Pacific All Asia Pass from Japan is US$1200, 8 Cities, 30 Days
The Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific, winner of every conceivable comfort and efficiency award, continues to issue a version of their popular All Asia Pass but for now, it's...
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Europe Low Cost Carriers Sell The Cheapest Air Tickets
The European airlines known as low fare or low cost airlines (LCAs to the trade) provide fantastic advance and last-minute air fare bargains on the continent, as well as to some African and Asian destinations....
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How Will Your Family Fly Again?
To commemorate the ten-year anniversary of 9/11/01, FTF editors chose to reprint this open letter sent originally to FTF families on September 24, 2001. Sadly, its advice is still relevant to many. Dear...
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Autism Explores Helps Children Overcome Travel Anxiety
Kevin Tamosaitis is a severly autistic, non-verbal 14-year-old whose father, Richard Tamosaitis became Kevin’s primary caregiver. Before he lost his fight with cancer, Richard Tamosaitis’ last...
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Making Aircraft Interiors Better – Possibility? Or Folly?
Aircraft interior design is one of those things we don't think much about but suffer mightily from. In fact, if you had asked me yesterday if anyone actually designs airplane interiors, I...
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Baby’s Up, Baby’s Down!
Does flying with baby sound like a daunting task? Here are tried and true strategies - plus some empowering advice - to make it breezy.The excitement, chaos, fatigue, fear and joy that arrive...
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10 New Air Travel Regulations You Need To Know
Family Travel Forum urges families flying to the U.S. to prepare for new security regulations in place at international airports around the world. Since Northwest Flight 253 was threatened...
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Negotiating Family Airline Travel in the 21st Century
Here are 10 tips on what to bring to make family airline flights fly by Airline travel may be down this year, but there’s still the risk of H1N1 and the added airline expenses associated...
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One Flew South in Atlanta Takes Flyers Higher
One Flew South is my kind of discovery, an oasis in Concourse E at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport where my family paused between two long flights.Their motto is "travel-inspired...
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