Travel, Cruise

It’s a sometimes-harsh fact of life - like lost socks and late trains - but the citizens of some countries are just better looking than that of others.
And while the prospect of aesthetically challenged locals shouldn’t discourage you from visiting a place, sometimes it’s nice to know where the beautiful people are. –Sydney Morning Herald’s […]

There is so much good food in the New Orleans area, we couldn’t possible sample it all on our short visit. The Jazz and Heritage Festival itself is a great place for not only music, but local food. It’s a great place to get a sampling of Cajun, creole, everything!! If you go, try the […]

Another British Airways lost luggage story? They seem never ending. So too, it seems, is British Airways’ ability to lose our luggage.
With final 2007 luggage handling statistics being released this week, we can see that BA really went above and beyond this past year, losing 26.5 bags per 1,000 during 2007, three and a half […]

The dollar weakens as the Euro expands to include a mounting number of countries across Europe. As the Euro gains purchasing power, countries like Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Turkey, Macedonia, Kosovo, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are jumping on board to join. With the Euro approaching 1.50 to our dollar, […]

Fairly hot on the fancy French heels of its earlier announcement of a new New York to London route, came another news flash from the busy Air France press room declaring a new Los Angeles to London route.
Unlike the former, which is really just a code-shared Delta flight, this one is the real deal, Air […]

Forget the cooked history books and wartime injustices, the Japanese government prefers to bury hatchets through feats of modern engineering. Last week members of the nation’s parliament proposed building an undersea railway from Japan’s southernmost island to Korea’s port city of Busan as a symbol of peaceful ties. It would stretch 80 miles, making it […]

So last week we got this surprise phone call from Richard Branson. And since we hung up, we’ve been ruminating on his admission that he’s scouting South America for his next airline project. Where would it be? When would it happen? Would there be soccer cheerleaders at the launch party?
As we pondered the very concept […]

Ahead of a probable spin-off of the Qantas frequent flyer program (FFP), the Qantas half year results investor briefing includes several pages on the FFP. Skip to page 45. It has a clear explanation of how airlines make money and account for their FFPs.

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And after almost six years leading NYC’s tourism office, Jonathan Tisch is stepping down as chairman. The CEO of Loews Hotels started luring visitors in May 2002, a tough time to be in charge of anything in New York. But he’s going out on a high note: More than 46 million people came to the […]

So, we’re officially tired of winter. It was fun while it lasted, but we’re ready to go to El Salvador and surf. Sounds fun, right?
Now our little fantasy springs from a trip we once took to Playa El Cuco. While we spent the night in a fairly shabby guesthouse, we shoulda booked at Las Flores […]