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Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass, March 2008 issue
Boarding Pass
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 385th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine. We’re beginning our 32nd year of publication. . . and not slowing down! This is the first March issue of ITN since 1986 that has not contained a Reference Index listing all of the articles, letters and news items printed in the magazine during ...

The Discerning Traveler » Dealing with delayed, canceled and overbooked flights

Columns, January 2008 issue
by Philip Wagenaar, M.D., first of two parts It was 11:35 a.m. when the Alaska Airlines gate agent intoned, “I am sorry to inform you that flight 580’s departure to San Diego has been postponed. It has been rescheduled for 1:30 p.m. Everybody may pick up a voucher for a sandwich and a drink at this ...

No vacation refund after missing flight

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
I purchased a 2-week extended holiday to Costa del Sol, Spain, with Sun Holidays for March ’07. The total price was $1,847, which included airfare from New York’s JFK to Málaga, Spain, with Iberia Air; hotel for 13 nights; transfers; meals; three local tours, and taxes. I separately arranged domestic air on US Airways to ...

Eye on Travel Insurance » Q&A

Columns, August 2007 issue
by Wayne Wirtanen Following are some ITN readers’ letters and inquiries that I have received recently regarding travel insurance. The first came from Judie Kesson of Coronado, California: Q: “As longtime subscribers and sometime contributors, my husband, Ken, and I want to report back on our very positive experience with Divers Alert Network, or DAN (Durham, NC; 800/446-2671, ...

Rented car online for Heathrow

Travelers' Intercom, August 2007 issue
I had to fly urgently to the U.K. on family business and so made arrangements over the Internet to rent a car from Dollar Rent A Car at London’s Heathrow Airport, Feb. 10-20, 2007. The total price I was quoted on Expedia was about £110 (near $219). On arrival at Heathrow, I could not see a ...

Expedia saved the trip

Travelers' Intercom, July 2007 issue
I booked a flight and hotel package with Expedia for April 19-26, 2007. I did this several months before departure and opted to include the Expedia Package Protection plan, which was good because I had to use it only three hours before my flight for a very unexpected reason. I live on the 24th floor of ...

Vaccination form incomplete

Travelers' Intercom, June 2007 issue
My husband, William, and I were to take a 12-day Amazon River cruise aboard the Princess Regal, Jan. 16-28, 2007. The cost of our trip was $6,653 including airfare. The Walnut Creek Urgent Care Clinic gave us the vaccinations we needed for Brazil. The Brazilian Consulate accepted these records when we obtained our visas, and in ...

Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass, June 2007 issue
Boarding Pass
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 376th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine. • In 2006, the accident rate of airlines in Russia and the other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was 13 times the worldwide average. At 8.6 accidents per million flights, it was even twice that of African countries. Western-built jets averaged ...

Ask Steve » Fled moldy cabin before sailing

Columns, May 2007 issue
Q: Dear Steve, my husband and I were to sail on a 30-day South Pacific cruise with (a major ship line) on January 22nd. We arrived at the port on time and healthy. We were aboard the ship for all of four hours, two of which were spent having lunch and touring the ship. When we got ...

Eye on Travel Insurance » Why are there no travel insurance companies?

Columns, April 2007 issue
by Wayne Wirtanen, Contributing Editor Riddle time! Why are there no travel insurance companies, and when is travel insurance not travel insurance? These seemingly ridiculous questions bubbled to the surface of my research as I was looking into the issues involving a company which claimed they were selling not travel insurance but “travel protection.” In August 2006, the ...