How safe is flying?

In 2010 there were over 9 million commercial airline flights in the United States, and not a single commercial airplane crash. Surveys show that more than one in ten Americans say that they are afraid to fly. However, most know that it is an irrational fear not supported by the facts. According to MIT airplane safety expert, Arnold Barnett, the actual flight operations of US commercial airlines operate at an enormous safety level.

Barnett conducted a study on airline safety and found that your chance of dying in a scheduled commercial airline flight is one in fourteen million. That means that you would have to take a commercial flight every day for the next 38,000 years before you were involved in a fatal commercial airline accident. In fact, riding on a commercial airliner... Read more about How Safe Is Flying

You can change red lights to green lights sooner if you know the secret. Using this technique is perfectly legal, and does not require that you purchase any equipment. In fact, all you need is a little bit of knowledge, some common sense, and a vehicle.

Unless you're way out in the sticks somewhere on a country road, and why would they have a red light out there anyway? Anyhow most cities and counties in the United States use a traffic control system that monitors traffic at intersections. The key to making a red light turn... Read more about Change Red Lights To Green

How to pick a safe taxi at the airport.

We’ve all seen them at the airport, those interesting looking characters that hang around the baggage claim area. Most of the time they wait until you pick up your bags to see if you’re headed out the door for a taxicab.

Then they rush up to you, try to grab your bag and say, need a taxi, where are you going... Read more about How To Get a Cab at the Airport

Use a scanner hooked to a computer to scan your passport and paper tickets, if you have them, and email them to yourself. You do have a web based email account, don’t you? If not, use Gmail or yahoo, it’s free! This way if you misplace those documents, you can access the web anywhere.

According to the Department of Transportation, Southwest Airlines had the lowest number of customer complaints in 2010, while Delta Airlines had the highest number of consumer complaints.

Commuter airlines seem to have the worst on-time arrival record with American Eagle leading the way followed by... Read more about Travel Packing Tips