If you have flights booked for the coming months, you can probably exhale: The threat of terribly long airport security lines seems to be behind us. The longest partial government shutdown in history ended after 76 days on Thursday, when the House of Representatives passed bill to reopen most of the U.S. Department of Homeland…

Basic fares have spread rapidly across airlines, and now they are even spreading across cabins. While these cheaper, albeit more restrictive, fares are standard in nearly every U.S. airline’s economy cabin, they are now becoming available in the pointy end of the plane. Basic economy has been around for more than a decade now (since…