Ryanair, noted for low-cost tickets and strict rules and fees has now relented a bit. Passengers can now carry a second small bag free, and fee for getting your boarding pass reprinted has dropped from $95 to $20
If one buys a home or apartment for at least 500,000 Euros and holds it for 5 years, investors will receive a Portuguese residence permit. Rich Chinese business people are doing just that.”Only obliged to spend seven days per year in…
Southwest, now the biggest U.S. domestic carrier, and Virgin America will expand service from New York’s Laguardia Airport using gate slots bought from American Airlines. The sale was part of the requirement for merger approval of AA and USAir, which…
Travelers flying from Britain will be forced to pay even more in Air Passenger Duty. it’s the sixth time in as many years.
Ideas Revenue solutions claims that its new software will give its clients a way to evaluate their online reputations and that of their competitors to more effectively price rooms.
GoGo Internet, the company that supplies the inflight WiFi on most U.S. domestic flights has gotten the OK to begin installin on Boeing 747-400s for international service, and will soon extend to other models as well. Details
An interesting piece by Wall Street Journal columnist, Scott McCarthy, on what some airlines are doing to make their food taste better. Apparently there are significant taste perception differences at high altitude as opposed to eating at sea…
The Frommer guidebook line is up to 30 new titles in two new, easy-to-pocket formats at lower prices.
Norwegian Air Shuttle’s first Fort Lauderdale to Copenhagen flight is off today, to be followed by flights tomorrow and Sunday to Oslo and Stockholm.
Paris to Barcelona has been a difficult trip by train, requiring at least one change and some slow trains. Now, the two cities have been linked by a direct French TGV train that makes the trip in 6h25m, challenging the airlines.
Explorer Levinson Wood begins his try of walking the Nile this Sunday.Read about it. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tra…-along-the-Nile.html
American Hotel and Lodging Association has just published a suggested list of tipping guidelines for hotel staff. Give it a look (bottom of page). Are these realistic suggestions? Do you routinely tip hotel staff? Curious to…
Apparently so! That’s how much loose change TSA scooped out of bins at scanning, left behind by travelers too frazzled or too hurried to pick it all up. And then there’s the question of what to do with it…find out HERE
London will build another pedestrian/cycle bridge over the River Thames. Looks like a beautiful project. .
London’s subway system, the world’s oldest, is planning to change to 24-hour service starting in 2015. The change will also coincide with a plan to eliminate special fare cards in favor of riders paying directly with bank debit cards.
The issue of pilots using automatic pilot to fly an airplane for most a flight is pretty widely known and accepted. Still, I think most people find comfort knowing that there are really human hands and an experienced pilot’s brains ready to take…
In probably the biggest embarrassment a pilot could have, the world’s largest cargo plane, a modified 747-400, landed at Wichita’s civil airport instead of a nearby Air Force base. The problem? Airport runway is too short for take-off….
A survey conducted by Airbus (possibly the only company with an official titled “Head of Passenger Comfort” indicates that almost over half of long-haul passengers think seat size and space is a critical issue, and 41% are willing to buy more when…
TripAdvisor has published a report on how we travel, and found that 85% of us take our smartphones along on vacation.. Not surprised, are you?
A visit to a historic Spanish fort on the Caribbean side of Panama, built to help protect Spanish gold as it transited from Western South America to Spain.
A stop at the historic Japanese Covered Bridge in Hoi An.
A unique collection of portraits Vincent Van Gogh painted while in Arles, of a postman and the family he befriended.
Samantha shares a couple of pictures of the South Dakota state sign on a road trip to Canada.
Once home to Britain’s Viceroy, it’s now home to the Indian Institute for Advanced Study
