Air Travel - About Air Travel Tips and Student Airfare Deals

What even long-time travelers have to ask every now and then: what can you carry on a plane? It changes...

Readers Respond and Comments: Will You Walk Through a Full Body Imaging Scanner At an Airport? Would You Refuse to Go Through an Full Body X Ray Imaging Machine At the Airport?

Preparing for air travel is key: it will make the experience more pleasant - be ready for air travel by having the right travel documents like an itinerary and eticket, choosing an airplane seat assignment, packing for airport security, and avoiding lost luggage.

Would you pay for carbon offsets in plane travel?

With budget European airline champ Ryanair's announcement of (at last) firm plans to start offering its budget seats in Mexico in fall 2006, we wondered if inter-Mexico airfares would be taking a turn for the cheap: the Ireland airline was operating in Mexico as vivaAerobus and joining several operators offering Mexico budget airfares since Mexico privatized Mexicana. We set out to see if the budget Mexico airline hype was true and whether we could save money. What we found:

Airplane Etiquette - Airplane Behavior - Being Polite Passenger on Planes is Airplane Etiquette 101

The TSA is installing backscatter, or body imaging X-ray machines, at up to 30 airports across the US in 2008. Learn what backscatter body imaging machines at airports are and see an actual image of a passenger's body as seen by the TSA from a backscatter body imaging machine at an airport.

Student airfare deals abound, considering the small number of student travel agencies in existence. Most student airfares are negotiated through SATA (Student Air Travel Association) and are for full time students or youth under 26. Check out this week's current student airfare deals available here.

Air travel has gotten more challenging, and prepping will make it easier. Be ready for air travel by having the right travel documents like an itinerary and eticket, choosing a seat, packing for airport security, and not losing luggage.

Cheap Mexico airlines hopped on the cheap airfare flight path in 2005, with Avolar, Azteca, Click, Interjet, vivaAerobus, or viva Aerobus, and Volaris on board the cheap Mexico airfare wagon by 2006. More cheap Mexico airlines will probably be on the way as Mexico privatizes major airline AeroMexico.

"No-frills travel" is something students are familiar with - student travelers may have coined the term. The rest of the travel world is catching on, though, and no-frills airlines are becoming big business. Air to Asia and in and around Asia has long been a budget buy -- no frills is nothing new for air in Asia. FInd out how to find cheap air in Asia.

You've bought your airline ticket - next question: just where is your airplane seat? And why should you find out? When you make an airline reservation, a seat is assigned to you; you'll often have the option to choose your seat. Let's walk through airplane seat choices step by step.

Electronic air tickets - e-tickets - are a great boon for student travelers who may not have a snail mail address at which they can receive printed airline tickets. Use a cyber cafe to print your airline ticket yourself and wing your way to your next destination with minimum hassle.

Being bumped (no seat available) from an overbooked flight can mean great perks - free flight vouchers, free meals, even free hotels. If you're not in a hurry, think about volunteering to be bumped.

How about a $27.98 ticket from London to Rome? Discount airfares like this really exist with budget European carriers. Get a complete list of airlines and start booking your discounted puddle jumping flight deals!

Airport security rules are a little bit complicated and can, unfortunately, change at any time. Knowing what they are before you fly, though, greatly reduces the hassle factor.

About Guide to Air Travel Arlene Flweming explains travel aggregators (cheap airfare roundup folks): Kayak, CheapFlights, Qico, Farechase, Sidestep, Super Search and Mobissimo are covered.

Readers Respond: What's Your Biggest Pet Peeve on Planes - Worst Passenger Behavior? What Is the Worst Thing Other Passengers Do On Planes? Add Your Worst Airplane Pet Peeve

Readers Respond: Have You Ever Flown Standby? What's It Like to Fly Standby?