Travel Warning

Airplane boarding is a masterpiece of unnecessary chaos. An airline has a plane with numbered seats, assigned to named passengers, and somehow the process of putting those passengers into those seats becomes a contact sport with luggage.

Think you found the best hotel deal online? A new class action lawsuit against Expedia Group argues that the "deal" was the product of a rigged market, and that millions of travelers may have paid inflated hotel rates for years without knowing it.

Booking a hotel room should not require the detective skills of a forensic accountant, but according to U.S. regulators and a string of lawsuits, a popular corner of the online travel world has been making it exactly that hard. Priceline.com, part of Booking Holdings, is facing possible Federal Trade Commission action over third-party hotel booking services that allegedly charge hidden fees and mislead travelers.

Imagine paying extra for a flight fare because it advertises free seat selection, and then discovering the word free was doing a lot of heavy lifting. That is the crux of a proposed class action filed against JetBlue Airways on August 31, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.