A curious trend (with an even more curious name) has emerged in which travelers opt out of any in-flight entertainment whatsoever, instead staring at the seatback in front of them for the entirety of ...

Whether you're reading this during the holiday season or gearing up for a summertime vacation, people travel a lot throughout the year, and you know what that means: you might get to watch a movie on ...

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We want to clarify what we mean by "movies that take place on planes." We aren't talking about great movies like Top Gun, Sully and Flight that take place partly on planes, but mostly on the ground.

There are plane movies—the sort that you might want to watch when you're stuck in the middle seat of a long flight—and then there are plane movies that are actually about planes. Given how a lot of ...

This past weekend, I slid into an assigned seat on what I think was the biggest airplane I have ever been on. Stuck between a window and a stranger for a flight over the Atlantic, I decided to seize ...

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