Jetiquette | The Sky Steward

On our March 3 Jetiquette Radio show we have an embarrassment of riches on the topic of TRAVEL WITH CHILDREN. The three women who joined us have tremendous expertise and personal experience  traveling with kids and they share their knowledge with us on this show.

Cynthia Harriman and her husband took their kids, aged 10 and 13,  to Europe in 1989.  They checked the kids out of public school and gave them a mobile education while living in houses in Spain, [...]

By Margery Wilson

Here at Skysteward we like to say “How you travel says a lot about you.”  Let me tell you about two women who helped me find first class travel on a shoestring budget.

Cynthia Harriman and Nan Jeffrey are two moms who gave me great advice and shaped my travel life. I feel like I know them, and their families, but – we have never met.  They each wrote books that are so unique and useful that I want [...]

By Margery Wilson

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.    ~~Mark Twain

Back in the days when I was a single mom with little money I was bitten by the travel bug. I learned every way I could find to afford travel on the cheap. Train travel, [...]

Southwest Employees celebrate "Bags Fly Free"

NOTE: See airline checked baggage fees

The situation at Southwest Airlines in which a crying 2-year old boy created such a fuss that he got himself and his mother thrown off has me thinking. It seems that though extremely friendly and customer-centric, Southwest’s employees definitely take swift action when they reach their breaking point. There is nothing worse than a crying 2 year old and I bet the mother was just as horrified [...]