Travel Briefs

Travelers with a "Blue Basic" ticket on JetBlue will have to pay up for overhead bin baggage space starting July 20.

Seksan Kumtong, of North Hollywood, appeared in court earlier this week, where he was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to reimburse United Airlines for expenses incurred during the diversion, which included the costs of meals and lodging for the rest of the flight’s displaced passengers and crew — expenses that totaled $49,793.

Researchers at Harvard say that pre-flight testing would be an important and more effective way to reduce transmission of COVID-19 as more people begin taking to the skies in the months ahead.

St. Barts, the popular Caribbean island where Jeff Bezos and stars like J. Lo vacation, will be shut down temporarily.

A flight attendant with Frontier Airlines has been accused of telling a passenger that he “should be on a no-fly list” — and suggesting that he should instead "walk" to his destination.

Engineers with Tripadvisor, Slack, Amazon Web Services and nine other technology companies developed the platform, dubbed Crowdfree.me, to help tourists avoid crowds at both businesses and public places, such as parks and beaches.

You won’t have to go home, but you can’t smoke here.

For the third year in a row, Japan has the world’s most "powerful" passport, which allows visa-free access to more countries (191) than any other, according to the latest Henley & Partners Passport Index ranking.

We're not sure this pilot should have been operating an aircraft with such an incurable case of Pac-Man fever.

The photographer and model had staged the shoot on Monday at the stepped Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.