Air Travel Blog Items
From January through June 2009, I wrote the air travel blog at World Hum, an excellent travel website owned by the Travel Channel. (Unfortunately, World Hum had to slightly downsize its blog. “As a result of the challenging publishing climate, we’ve had to make the difficult decision to phase out our individual topic blogs,” they explained in an editor’s note.) Below are links to my blog items at World Hum. Feature stories and slideshows I’ve done for the site are listed under the Articles & Essays page here or the Slideshows page. Items are listed from most recent to least recent.
- So Long, Airworld
- Rising Fuel Prices, the Paris Air Show, and More
- 24 Hours in Airworld: So Long, T5
- 24 Hours in Airworld: Morning in the Terminal
- 24 Hours in Airworld: An Empty Terminal
- 24 Hours in Airworld: Late Night Sports Fans
- 24 Hours in Airworld: Mall or Airport?
- 24 Hours in Airworld: The Airport Bar
- 24 Hours in Airworld: Terminal 5, Old and New
- JetBlue’s New T5: A Nice Place to Live?
- Welcome, JetAmerica and flydubai
- Why Should You Follow Airlines on Twitter?
- Cheap Tickets to Hawaii, Costa Rica and More
- New Travel Book: “The Wall Street Journal Guide to Power Travel”
- Interview with Scott McCartney, Author of “The Wall Street Journal Guide to Power Travel”
- The Wi-Fi-in-the-Sky Wars
- Straight to Airport Security, Your Phone as Your Boarding Pass
- A Flight from Kathmandu to Tumlingtar
- Cheap Airfares! Buy Now!
- Southwest and JetBlue to Face Off in Guitar Hero Challenge
- NPR Broadcasts From “The Troubled Skies”
- The Things They Carried– On Planes
- Interview with Jason Barger: Author of “Step Back From the Baggage Claim”
- Still No Word on Scabies Outbreak Among Boston TSA Staff
- Is Whole Body Imaging Coming to an Airport Near You?
- Desert Solitaire: Inside an “Airplane Graveyard”
- Further Thoughts on Continental Connect Flight 3407
- Interview with James Wallace: Reflections from an Aerospace Reporter
- Air Travel Now, in Numbers
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Alaska Airlines Copes with Mount Redoubt, and Tweets, Too
- A “Twitcom” From Southwest Airlines
- For Sale: Three Airports in the U.K.
- Big Plane, Small Plane
- The Pre-Flight Flight Attendant Rap
- How I Long for Thee, Boeing 787
- Capt. Sully: Author, Poet
- Tough Times for Airlines: Good for Passengers?
- Remembering the Concorde
- RyanAir “Serious” About Charging for Bathroom
- NPR Asks “What Makes a Good Commercial Pilot?”
- “Model” Behavior From Southwest?
- What Not to do When Late for a Flight
- The Worst Airline PR Ever?
- A Roundup of Airline Fees
- Why Do Airplane Wings Generate Lift?
- Security Full-Body Scanners: Invasive? Effective? Both?
- R.I.P. Sigurdur Helgason
- “Flying Thief” Flies No More
- Thoughts on Continental Connect Flight 3407
- Internet in the Skies?
- Some Say “Nay” to Giant Horse Sculpture
- Sully on 60 Minutes
- Falcons, Gulls and Clams at Kennedy Airport
- German Tourists Detained for Changing in Public in Brazilian Airport
- “A Zen Level of Patience”: Matt Gross on Air Travel
- U.S. Airways Plane Draws Onlookers Again
- Malcolm Gladwell on Aviation Safety and Security
- Flying Coach as “Punishment”?
- A Half-Century Ago: Let the Jet Age Begin!
- A Trip to Battery Park City
- Taking Flight
Rob Verger is a journalist whose work has appeared in Newsweek, The Boston Globe, World Hum, The Faster Times, and other publications. His stories focus on travel, books, and more. Click on the Articles & Essays page above for a complete list of publications. Contact: rob@robverger.com. 
