Consumer Traveler Today: April 19

Consumer Traveler Today: Travel Photography is not illegal!
 
 
Travel Photography is not illegal!
What we’re reading: Eruptions still rock Iceland, hope for European air traffic, major airlines won’t charge carry-on fee
Should airlines create a new “Family Class” section?
Travel Photography is not illegal!
Posted: 19 Apr 2010 03:28 AM PDT
Ned Levi discusses the continuing problem of travel photographers being harassed, questioned, and sometimes detained, to stop them making photographs, by private security personnel, even when the pictures are being taken from public spaces. Ned suggests what you can do if it happens to you.
       

What we’re reading: Eruptions still rock Iceland, hope for European air traffic, major airlines won’t charge carry-on fee
Posted: 19 Apr 2010 03:00 AM PDT
New tremors and eruptions rock Iceland, KLM and Lufthansa test flights raise hope for European traffic, major airlines swear off carry-on fees
       

Should airlines create a new “Family Class” section?
Posted: 18 Apr 2010 08:51 AM PDT
When my daughter Samantha was 18 months old, we made the mistake of flying from Albany, New York, to Las Vegas — nonstop. It was like traveling with a chimpanzee. Contained in a metal tube for six hours with no understanding of her personal space, or anyone else’s, she wanted to run up and down the aisle and screamed when we tried to distract her with all the toys we had lugged on board.