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Are travelers abandoning luggage? 🧳🎒✈️

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Wed May 13 2026

 
In The Trash

Rising baggage fees are prompting some travelers to ditch suitcases rather than pay to check or carry them.

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Frontier flight deplaned after gun magazine found on aircraft

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Carnival Cruise Line's private Bahamas destination, Celebration Key.
 

Carnival cruise guest dies after driving mobility scooter off pier

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Disney canceled a cruise on its newest ship, asked guests to disembark

Disney Cruise Line’s newest ship resumed sailing after a mechanical issue forced passengers to disembark.

British citizens are evacuated from the MV Hondius after docking in the Granadilla Port on May 10, 2026 in Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands, Spain.
 

Hantavirus, norovirus and the truth about germs on cruises

A hantavirus outbreak is one of the latest health crises tied to cruise ships, but experts say travelers don't have new cause for concern.

A passenger of the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is pictured while leaving by military bus after disembarking in the port of Granadilla de Abona on the island of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands on May 11, 2026. Adverse weather conditions forced the cruise ship MV Hondius hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and anchored off Spain's Canary Islands to dock at Tenerife on May 11, 2026 before evacuations can be completed, the health ministry said.
 

Rare hantavirus spreads on cruise, deaths reported

Multiple cases and deaths linked to a rare virus aboard a cruise ship prompt evacuations and global monitoring efforts.

 

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