After a few days into your trip, you’ve likely checked off some of the most anticipated activities on your itinerary—the exciting restaurant reservation, the beach day, whichever. By the end of your trip, you’ve gone through at least 75% of the underwear you’ve packed, and your socks have seen way, way better days. The ideal solution is not to pack all of these stinky socks and underwear, plus the rest of your sweaty clothing with your souvenirs and the excess of clean underwear all back in...

On October 8, a Turkish Airlines flight from Seattle to Istanbul made an emergency landing at New York’s JFK airport after the flight’s captain collapsed. The pilot, Ilcehin Pehlivan, 59, could not be revived and died during the flight, according to a statement released by Turkish Airlines. The decision was made by the copilot and crew to make an emergency landing in New York, where passengers were ushered to other flights. "As the Turkish Airlines family, we wish God's mercy upon our captain...

Dermatologists and etiquette experts weigh in on the impact of that mid-flight sheet mask. By Opheli Garcia Lawler My entire nervous system is sensitive to air travel. I bloat, and my ears hurt. Also, my skin looks dry and oily simultaneously. And so, I have watched countless TikTok videos of women prepping, masking, and zapping their skin mid-flight, promising that the method prevents the dreaded "plane skin." Sometimes, the routines are simple, suggesting wipes and sprays that promise to...

Another day, another absurd meal being prepared on an airplane. We've already seen shrimp and grits prepared in an airplane bathroom sink, and while it really cannot get much worse than that, it can get weirder. In a two-part Instagram post, baker Maria Baradell shared the process of creating Sourdough bread dough during her flight to Spain, hashtagging the video "#milehighsourdoughclub." To me, the most unbelievable part of this is that she managed to film and knead in an economy seat. View...

For the last eight years, Tom Williams has been leading tourists on trips to deserted islands, so they can give it a go at learning their best survival skills. Williams, 41, is the founder and owner of Desert Island Survival as well as the winner of the survival show Alone UK in 2023. It wasn’t a bygone conclusion that Williams would have a career teaching others how to hack it (literally) in the great outdoors, though. He was working an office job, feeling extremely unconnected and...