Some may recall scenes from 1990s movies where families and couples said their goodbyes right at the airplane gate. Today, ...

The “Home Alone” movies turned holiday travel chaos into comedy. Scenes of the McCallister family sprinting through a crowded terminal still resonate as the busy year-end travel period gets underway.

Back then, Europe was booming. “There was a lot of expansion,” recalls Crotty, who has been in the chemicals industry since ...