TSA has expressed itself pretty darned proud about how passenger complaints reached an all-time low last month. Apparently "consumer complaints about the TSA were down 59% from a May 2004 peak," which—depending on how you interpret the numbers—is evidence either that TSA agents are doing a better job or that people are so numb they've stopped protesting.

In either case the holidays are coming up, and with them will arrive the annual stories about TSA opening presents and confiscating cakes. Ruining Christmas tends to generate more complaints rather than less, so let's not bust out the party hats and noisemakers quite yet.]]> Omri 2011-11-23T15:05:14-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/23/104633/44
A long holiday security line at Delta's LGA Terminal

We don't have to tell you that today through the weekend will be some of the busiest travel days of the year; if you're out there in it all, you'll see for yourself. Already SFO, EWR, LGA and PHL are experiencing weather-related delays, and odds are this is only the beginning of yet another hectic Thanksgiving travel period.

To prepare for you own flights and road trips, or to survive the ones you're currently stuck in, check out some of our most popular travel tips:

· Stay healthy despite being surrounded by sick travelers
· Bribe a flight attendant
· See what airports have free WiFi
· Five items to buy at the airport to survive massive delays
· Drink up at these 5 great bars at 5 major US airports
· Dealing with airline delays and cancellations
· Stretch out in a bulkhead row on your flight
· What to do if you're stuck at ORD, MSP, DTW or ATL
· Keeping your rental car fuel costs down
· Know your airline, train or bus' website and Twitter]]> JetSetCD 2011-11-23T13:27:32-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/22/112119/87

Okay, this is awesome. Go to WolframAlpha.com (a site that's like Google if Google was a huge science dork), and search "flights overhead." Yes, just those words. Now sit back for a millisecond until WolframAlpha returns with a list of the flights currently overheard you at that very moment.

This is the hottest little time waster on the internet today, and we may just stay addicted to it throughout the holidays. There's no need to live near an airport, either, as WolframAlpha picks up on planes cruising up above as well as ones coming in for a landing.

Our results—as we're currently in the triangle formed by JFK, LGA and EWR—returned an AirBerlin flight en route from Düsseldorf to Fort Myers, FL. It's crazy to think that a website can let us know that there's a couple hundred Germans directly overheard, each of them dreaming of the Florida sunshine they'll enjoy in under three hours. ]]> JetSetCD 2011-11-22T12:07:09-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/4/133440/411

Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck and Alan Alda hit the big screen today in Tower Heist, about employees at a luxury residence tower in NYC, owned by a Madoffesque kingpin, who decide to steal $20 million dollars from their boss after finding out he embezzled their pension funds.

The building in the movie is based on the Trump International Hotel and Tower, located at One Central Park West in New York City. They even filmed most of the movie's exterior shots at Trump Tower, including one of the movie's biggest scenes which takes place during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. ]]> cmb 2011-11-04T13:34:40-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/3/23330/6332

Now that we've already warned that Thanksgiving weekend flight prices are rising and the TV news channels are freaking out over it, it's time for the airfare search engines themselves to have a say.

Hipmunk is up to their old tricks of putting together brilliant infographics, and if you know us at all, you know that one of the things we love almost as much as time-lapse videos are colorful infographics. The chipmunk dressed as a pilgrim is just a bonus.

The graphic above is only a small sample of the numbers crunched; you can view the entire masterpiece right here. ]]> JetSetCD 2011-11-04T11:27:19-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/10/24/05445/947
Holiday rush security line crowding at Delta's LaGuardia terminal

It's widely said that the day before Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day of the year, but really some summer days can be just as hectic. Still, with Americans scrambling to get home to eat a feast of turkey/tofurkey and stuffing, the airports aren't exactly a picnic in late November.

Curious to see exactly how high roundtrip prices for Thanksgiving flights have gotten, we headed over to place some sample trips into Hipmunk.

Here's the cheapest fares we found:]]> JetSetCD 2011-10-24T15:41:22-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/11/28/212739/22

As expected with one of the busiest travel periods of the year, much travel news happened over the long Thanksgiving weekend. Luckily for everyone, the headlines focused on occurrences of nudity at airports or the lack of, as the TSA declared victoy in Opt-Out Day, even though they had turned off most of the controversial full-body scanners. There were no underwear bombs or package bombs; there were only Jaeger bombs at family tables stewn with pumpkin pie crumbs.

Alas, before getting back on track after a gluttonous weekend, let's pig out once more...on the brief news bits from the last few days: ]]> JetSetCD 2010-11-29T09:00:45-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/