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The Edit — Travel
The Sunday after Thanksgiving set TSA's all-time record in 2025, with 3,133,924 people screened. In 2026 that Sunday is 29 November. Here is the day-by-day pattern for flying and driving, and the hours to avoid.
The Edit — Travel
The FAA lists trackers by name and allows them in checked bags up to 0.3 grams of lithium. An AirTag's CR2032 holds about 0.109, so it clears the limit roughly threefold.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min
The Edit — Travel
TSA bans a multitool with a knife blade of any length from carry-on bags. A blade-free tool can fly in the cabin, within 2 limits: scissors under 4 inches from the pivot, and tools no longer than 7 inches.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 · 4 min
The Edit — Travel
7 carry-on cases, ranked by rating and then by number of ratings, and read against the test that matters at the gate: whether the bag drops into a 22 by 14 by 9 inch frame with the wheels counted.
Updated Oct 12, 2026 · 9 min
The Edit — Cruises
A ship pitches around its centre, so motion is smallest low and midship and largest high and forward. That is geometry rather than opinion, and it is the one cabin variable you can choose.
Updated Oct 11, 2026 · 7 min
The Edit — Travel
A lifetime warranty covers a seam that was stitched wrong in a factory. It does not cover the wheel a baggage belt tore off, which is the only way most cases ever die.
Updated Oct 11, 2026 · 7 min
The Edit — Travel
Two legacy names, and the honest difference is not the cases. It is that one of them puts its softside line where flight crews buy, and the other sells more shapes than any shop can stock.
Updated Oct 11, 2026 · 7 min
The Edit — Travel
A phone answers the question you already knew to ask. A guidebook is edited, which means somebody decided what was worth 3 pages and what was worth a line, and that judgement is the product.
Updated Sep 8, 2026 · 7 min
The Edit — Travel
A scale that reads half a kilo light is worse than no scale at all, because it produces confidence rather than a check. Four scales, and the one number to test them against.
Updated Sep 6, 2026 · 6 min
The Edit — Travel
Both shells survive the trip. What decides between them is which failure you would rather own — a cracked corner you cannot repair, or a torn panel and a zip that a ballpoint pen opens in seconds.
Updated Sep 5, 2026 · 7 min
The Edit — Travel
An adapter changes the shape of the pins. It does nothing to the 230 volts behind them, and the appliance that dies abroad is usually the one that needed the second thing.
Updated Sep 5, 2026 · 6 min
The Edit — Travel
Almost every US carrier publishes the same three numbers, and almost every bag sold as compliant measures larger than them once the wheels are counted. The sizer at the gate is the only measurement that decides anything.
Updated Sep 4, 2026 · 6 min
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