Flying doesn’t have to be a cramped, stressful ordeal — with the right mix of etiquette, seat strategy, and comfort tricks, you can make the journey far smoother. From picking the right seat to moving ...

Flight attendants spend years watching what makes travel run smoothly and what leads to delays, frustration, and unnecessary stress. The habits they stand by aren’t complicated or expensive, but they ...

One pilot’s romantic ideal of flying might be the soft, sighing touchdown of a taildragger on freshly mowed grass at the end of a warm summer day. Another’s could involve a floatplane splashing down ...

Southwest goes red, white and blue for America's 250. See new plane.

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

I’ve always been a nervous flier. The second I take my assigned seat in a plane, I pull my headphones over my ears and glue my eyes shut in an attempt to drown out the sound of a plane taking off.

Fear of flying, also known as aerophobia, is pretty common. “About 13% of the population has an extreme fear of flying, and about 3.5% of people fear flying to the point of having a full-blown ...