News and notes from around the interweb:
- Increasingly, travelers are women. This mirrors other disturbing trends for men.
I was surprised but there is a rate of change: it went from 50/50 to 1.2 women for every US man going abroad to 1.7 under 30 women vs men. Massive massive change in like a decade.
— Kevin A. Bryan (@Afinetheorem) August 4, 2025
- Chico looks like it will get commercial service back.
Chico, California (CIC) lost all passenger flights a decade ago, but they’re in discussions with several airlines to bring it back:
• United/SkyWest to LAX
• Allegiant to LAS/SNA
• American
• BreezeCIC won a $1 million SCASD grant last year. From the airport’s board… pic.twitter.com/feMY1nnCER
— Ishrion Aviation (@IshrionA) August 3, 2025
- Get 250 Turkish Airlines miles for joining Marriott Bonvoy
- “Oh so the ceiling can bring more than 3.4 ounces of liquid past security but I can’t??”
- Kenya Airways status match SkyTeam Elite Plus status gets you free checked bags and exit row seats on Delta..
- Suspicious package.
https://t.co/7wq4PRhqmh https://t.co/CC7nEpd0ja
— JonNYC (@xJonNYC) August 4, 2025
Nah, let’s stop the fake ‘gender’ or ‘generational’ culture war stuff; it’s a class war. The rich are traveling and living luxuriously, and they should; the poor are suffering, and they deserve better. Everyone, within reason, should get to experience ‘the world.’ Stop vilifying your fellow humans.
$299 for the status match. Ouch.
Women travel with alimony while men working on paying for it
As with many things, this is less about who is traveling as opposed to why they are traveling.
More women are getting college degrees, too. That helps pay for the travel. Women are not having kids or putting off having kids. That makes traveling easier. More women seeing the world seems to be a proper conclusion.
@Creditian — Oh, how ‘old-fashioned’ of you to say such a thing these days. While historically, it was mostly men who were ordered to pay spousal support (yes, also called alimony) to their ex-wives, these laws are mostly gender-neutral, meaning, depending on the circumstances, such as with career-women who makes more then their former husbands who might have been ‘stay at home dads’ (I know, that must shock you that such a thing could exist!), those ‘thriving’ ladies end up paying the men, usually based on financial need and ability to pay. The times they are a changin…
1) @Gary, why is this (“Increasingly, travelers are women. This mirrors other disturbing trends for men”) a “disturbing trend”? Did I wake up in the 1950s? What are the “other disturbing trends for men” to which you refer???
2) It would appear some Nigerian prince is in charge of the Kenya Airways status match program…$299 to match? WTF???
Young men are dropping out of society (no job, live at home as an adult, non functional) at alarming rates so it would be no surprise they are traveling less. Lots of reason why but the Medical Industrial Complex has zero interest.
Women being hoes, they travel around the world to have sex with men.
@George Romey — Easy there. We absolutely should support and encourage our young men. However, let’s not vilify them as a group either.
@Walter Barry — Clearly, not with you, sir.
Young women tend to spend everything they have, even the affluent ones with good jobs. They know they can marry some hardworking stiff to compensate for their spendthrift ways once they turn 30.
Another issue is that the most affluent men are trapped in high-pressure jobs where it’s difficult to take time off. They often wait for time between jobs to travel
@Esquiar — Ah, I see the ‘parade of horribles’ continues. Show us on the doll where she hurt you… Listen, I know ‘woke is dead,’ but, my guy, that wasn’t even ‘thinly-veiled’ misogyny. Some men and some women ‘spend everything they have,’ and others don’t. Stop perpetuating stereotypes.
I just assume that women travel more because they are more likely able to fit in coach (on average, of course, for those desperate to snark). Just more evidence that we will observe differences in data about men and women—things rarely turn out 50/50.
@This comes to mind — Can we please somehow incorporate the recent Sydney Sweeney jeans/genes faux-controversy into this post? When can a wealthy, blond-haired, blue-eyed young-ish girl with huge personalit(ies) catch a break!
@1990: just my observations from VHCOL city working in high-paying industry. Fits my male and female friends perfectly. Sorry you’ve never experienced this scene. And don’t worry about me. I’m happily married to Mrs. Right now with kids.
@Esquiar — Happy for you! Sorry to hear for your friends though; hope they find a better balance soon enough. Most folks are just trying their best.
@1990 yeah what did I just witness!
Parade indeed.
@IsaacM — Sure gets ‘wild’ on here sometimes… bah!