It’s been a wild week in the world of travel, again.

You may have noticed that British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia are getting together.

Pretty soon there’s only going to be one airline and we’re all going to be sitting in the back of the plane with one tuna fish sandwich. Actually, let me amend that, we’re going to be sitting there with a photograph of a tuna fish sandwich.

Boy, Richard Branson is going to launch missiles on this one.

Last week, I jumped on a plane and went over to Nairobi in Kenya to work on a story to update what’s been going on in that beautiful East African country since the upheaval in January and February over the disputed elections.

Not to mention the fact that this week was the 10th anniversary of the terrible bombing of the American Embassy back in 1998, when so many people lost their lives.

It’s an appropriate time to go over and sort of take measure of what’s going on.

Last Sunday I went to JFK to try to fly back to Los Angeles and my plane was on the ground.

This is always a nice sign, because when an airline departure board says “on time” you need to first of all figure out if the plane is there, not just scheduled to be on time.

But all of a sudden they cancelled my flight — and the flight after and the flight after, and everybody else’s flight. The problem was a little bit of weather, we all know about that.

But it’s now 2008 and somebody has to explain to me why rain — you heard me, rain — cancels flights.

I did the Today show on Monday morning on the last great places where the U.S. dollar is still maybe king and where you can still get an affordable experience this summer. Those destinations range from South Africa, Argentina, Estonia, and Thailand.

Also, there is a very interesting situation with what’s going on in the Caribbean.

As airlines are reducing capacity, especially in the Caribbean, and fares are going up, the resorts down there are dying because of the airlift situation.

They’re worried. They just can’t adjust if people can’t get down there.

Last week, I was on Larry King Live, discussing the brouhaha about US Airways telling its pilots to fly slower and take less fuel.

The pilots claimed it was a safety issue, and the airline said there is no safety issue involved.

US Airways’ CEO Doug Parker was supposed to be on the show with us, but at the last minute, he cancelled.

Gee, an airline canceling … never heard of that. We did the show anyway.

From Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio

Did you see the story about the “nose-cone” or the Northwest Airlines plane that got bashed in, in flight?

The 757 took a punch in the nose big time and it was on a flight from Detroit to Tampa.

If you look at the photographs, the original story came out that it was hit by birds. And, do you know this thing happened at 38,000 feet?

There sure aren’t any birds at 38,000 feet.