Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic historic flight opens space tourism
With company owner and uber-adventurer Sir Richard Branson on board, Virgin Galactic today announced that VSS Unity successfully reached space,… Read More »
Woman Gets Duct-Taped To Her Seat After Attempting To Open Airplane Door
On July 6, an unnamed passenger aboard a late-night flight found herself duct-taped to her seat after allegedly going ballistic… Read More »
Great European rail journeys
Europe’s Remarkable Railways While you can go on a great train trip in many places around the world (including right… Read More »
What it’s like cruising the Greek Isles right now
I’m a worrier by nature, so although I was very much looking forward to a Greek Isles sailing aboard Celestyal Cruises’ Celestyal… Read More »
Alaska Airlines Puts Top Executives To Work – Moving Baggage
Like its brethren in the industry, Alaska Airlines has been caught up in the perfect storm hitting aviation at the… Read More »
Extreme Vegas Heat Forces Southwest to Cancel Some Flights
Just as with other extreme weather phenomena – snowstorms, thunder and lightning, hail and ice – it turns out that… Read More »
Biden Administration Goes After Airlines With Executive Order
President Joe Biden on Friday signed a sweeping Executive Order aimed at reeling in corporate powers, including cracking down on… Read More »
Daily housekeeping ended at most of Hilton’s US hotels
Housekeeping at Hilton hotels in the US will be done daily only at the request of guests, except for the… Read More »
Walt Disney World Resort hotels in Fla. to reopen soon
Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla., will reopen its Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort on July 19 following an extensive… Read More »
Pittsburgh pandemic hotel nears end of year-plus run
A county- and nonprofit-run hotel in Pittsburgh that’s been a free refuge from the pandemic for the vulnerable since April… Read More »
Serve yourself, buyer beware: Buffets back, carefully
The all-you-can eat buffet, once considered a permanent casualty of the pandemic, is re-emerging to a highly limited extent and… Read More »
Exec pioneered frequent-flyer programs at American
Thomas Plaskett, who died June 24 at the age of 77, created the first comprehensive frequent-flyer program as an executive… Read More »