Jane Engle

Travel Insider

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Recent Columns:
October 5, 2008
For their sixth wedding anniversary, Mark and Melissa Hill looked forward to a four-day Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Ecstasy.

August 24, 2008
With Labor Day a week away, you may think you have a better chance of making a hole in one blindfolded than getting space at a campground or a park lodge for the holiday. But it's not quite that grim.

August 3, 2008
Visitors to the Summer Games, opening Friday in Beijing, can be assured of seeing top athletes swimming, throwing the javelin, hopping hurdles and strutting their stuff, all in the peak of health. But what if the fans aren't feeling great or get hurt in an accident?

April 13, 2008
Not a javelin has been tossed nor a hurdle hopped, but already the Summer Olympics in China is embroiled in controversy.

August 12, 2007
The last nine months have brought a flurry of anger and activism involving fliers trapped on tarmacs with limited food and water and inoperable toilets.

August 12, 2007
The last nine months have brought a flurry of anger and activism involving fliers trapped on tarmacs with limited food and water and inoperable toilets.

January 7, 2007
FOR millions of people with food allergies, every trip seems like adventure travel. Like mountain climbers and trekkers, they must have their own gear and rely on themselves to cope with risks that may prove life-threatening.

December 31, 2006
THE world's fifth busiest airport, long derided as shabby, antiquated and crowded, is reforming itself.

December 24, 2006
AIR CANADA this fall fired the latest volley in an aerial dogfight: It banned nearly all animals from aircraft cabins, saying they could trigger allergy attacks in susceptible passengers.

December 17, 2006
NEXT month marks the eighth anniversary of a debacle that redefined air rage: In January 1999, thousands of fliers endured hours trapped in Northwest Airlines jets at the snowbound Detroit airport, waiting for gates to free up.