Dana McMahan , NBC News contributor   –   9 hrs. Courtesy of Fleisher’s Joshua Applestone breaks down a pig during a butchery class [...]

Dana McMahan , NBC News contributor   –   5 hrs. Courtesy of Fleisher’s Joshua Applestone breaks down a pig during a butchery class [...]

getaways 5 hours ago Video: If you want to take a weekend trip and are on a tight budget, Nilou Motamed of Travel + Leisure magazine is here to help. She shares five trips around the country that all cost [...]

Ben Popken, NBCNews.com , NBC News   –   19 min. If Samuel L. Jackson was flying on a recent San Diego-bound Frontier Airlines flight, he no doubt would have screamed, [...]

Gilma Avalos , NBC Miami   –   22 hrs. A retirement party was held for an American Airlines flight attendant Barbara Beckett Monday as she celebrated her 53-year career [...]

Herb Weisbaum , NBC News contributor   –   20 min. Gerald Herbert / AP Veronica Arriaga, of Angleton, Texas, a passenger from the disabled [...]

Ben Popken, NBCNews.com , NBC News   –   1 day 3-year old patdown The Transportation Security Administration has apologized after the family of a wheelchair-bound 3-year-old [...]

Jonathan Alcorn / Reuters Firefighters work to remove a body found inside a water tank on the rooftop of Hotel Cecil in Los Angeles. The body of a woman recovered Tuesday from a water tank on the roof of a downtown Los Angeles hotel is [...]

Ben Popken   –   1 hr. Flying increases flatulence, according to an article published Friday in the peer-reviewed New Zealand Medical Journal, and passengers should release the gas [...]

Rob Lovitt , NBC News contributor   –   3 hrs. Planning to fly somewhere for your spring break or summer vacation? If arriving at your destination in a timely manner is [...]

Dave Martin / AP The cruise ship Carnival Triumph is towed up the Mobile River in Mobile, Ala., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. The ship with more than 4,200 passengers and crew members has been idled for nearly a week in the Gulf of Mexico following [...]

Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News   –   18 min. Stepping off the Carnival Triumph — the filthy, sweltering cruise ship that was stranded in the Gulf of Mexico for five days after [...]

Erin Gifford   –   1 hr. It never fails. You spend a lot of time and money on a romantic getaway, then you and your partner get into a disagreement over where to eat or when to go snorkeling [...]

A. Pawlowski , NBC News contributor   –   1 hr. A voyage on the Carnival Triumph has ended less than triumphantly, with the cruise ship waiting to be towed to port after [...]

Scott Mayerowitz , The Associated Press   –   1 hr. NEW YORK — As the Northeast braces for its largest winter storm in more than a year, airlines are already employing [...]

The Associated Press   –   3 hrs. LAS VEGAS — MGM Resorts International is asking the Nevada Supreme Court to speed up a decision that’s holding up the demolition of a [...]

Dennis Schaal, Skift.com , Skift   –   2 hrs. Get ready for a possibly painful, problem-ridden, and prolonged merger of American Airlines and US Airways if the deal goes [...]

A. Pawlowski , NBC News   –   1 hr. Nervous fliers monitored the weather and scrambled to change plans on Thursday as forecasts showed a powerful blizzard heading towards [...]

Tanya Mohn , NBC News contributor   –   7 hrs. Violent crimes targeting travelers in Mexico — such as the rape of six female Spanish tourists in Acapulco earlier [...]

NBC News   |  Aired on January 31, 2013 Luxury brands like Fendi are helping restore crumbling Italian landmarks, prompting some to ask whether the country’s history is being sold off to the highest [...]

6 hrs. A. Pawlowski , NBC News Larry Downing / Reuters file Ray LaHood, pictured in 2011, announced on Tuesday that he will step down as the head of the Department [...]

7 hrs. David Koenig , The Associated Press After two separate and serious battery problems aboard Boeing 787s, it wasn’t U.S. authorities who acted first to ground the plane. It was Japanese [...]

3 hrs. Vignesh Ramachandran Passengers on an American Eagle flight on Wednesday suffered injuries from turbulence, fire officials in Chicago said. Three passengers on board American Eagle Flight 3720 complained [...]

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan Wednesday due to battery problems and a burning smell in the cockpit. This combined with two other safety incidents last week has prompted Japan’s two top airlines [...]

2 hrs. The Associated Press NEW YORK – Authorities say bird strikes forced two planes to return to New York’s Kennedy Airport shortly after takeoff over the weekend. A JetBlue flight bound [...]

2 hrs. The Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia – A passenger has given birth aboard a plane flying to Armenia and named her daughter after one of the flight attendants who helped with the delivery. The [...]

Crews have been working 24 hours a day, building structures around the sunken Costa Concordia in an effort to remove it from off the coast of Italy’s island of Giglio. A year later, those who were on board are still coming to terms with [...]

2 hrs. Tanya Mohn , NBC News contributor Thirty-two passengers and crewmembers died after the Costa Concordia crashed off the coast of Italy nearly one year ago – a tragedy that served as [...]

1 hr. A. Pawlowski , NBC News contributor Flight attendants already have to look out for cranky passengers, portable electronic devices that stubbornly stay on and giant carry-ons wedged into [...]

NBC News A commuter ferry crashed into Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, injuring dozens.   Updated at 3:35 p.m. ET – A commuter ferry packed with more than 300 passengers crashed into a dock in Lower Manhattan early Wednesday, [...]