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The seaside town of Huacho, Peru just hosted what could be the world’s cutest contest–if it weren’t for how it ended. It was the Huacho Guinea Pig Festival.
Things got started when some of the small rodents got dressed up for the animal fashion show, where this year’s big looks were miner and king. But the […]

Big changes at United Airlines and it’ll hit you right in your pocketbook:
Laying off 7000 workers
Cutting domestic seat capacity 15.5 to 16.5 percent
Retiring 100 jets
Read the press release to see what else they’re up to.
  
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While last year’s summer of airline hell has yet to repeat itself, the US government is still working on a way to keep it from happening again. And Transportation Secretary Mary Peters thinks that slot auctions are the way to go, something she’s been hyping since at least last December.
But the airlines don’t want to […]

Alaska Airlines joins the small club of airline web sites with a 30-day flexible date search (see how it works). American has a 31-day search (domestic roundtrips only) and Southwest has their "ShortCut" which allows you to search any 30 day period outbound and any other 30 day period on the return. But most airline […]

Virgin America just announced that it’ll start selling Karma sparkling wine on flights, just in time to toast to the carrier’s first birthday, coming up on August 8. The bevvies are $10 each.
Given how much she supposedly loves the airline, though, we’re surprised Paris Hilton didn’t get her canned Prosecco on board instead.
Related Stories:· Southwest […]

The opening of T5 at London Heathrow was so outrageously botched, sometimes “shambolic” didn’t seem good enough to describe it. But in the months since, have things changed? And, more importantly, can you fly there and hope to see your checked bags ever again?
NewYorkology blogger Amy Langfield transited the terminal three times during a recent […]

Start with one ancient temple crouched on a disputed border, wrap in a questionable French map, sprinkle with dodgy politicians, stir in a pending Khmer election, lather the whole mix up with some Thai political opportunism, then complete with a few hundred armed soldiers, ASEAN and a World Heritage listing. There you have it: one […]

It’s hardly shocking that as gas prices rise, more commuters are looking to public transit options they may not have considered earlier. But the Amtrak train leading in gains may surprise you: It’s not the soup-to-nuts Northeast Regional or the posh Acela trains, but the Downeaster, the Portland-to-Boston route which picked up 947 extra passengers […]

Scandinavian Airlines is having a sale for late summer and fall travel, with Delta hot on its flaps and Continental likely to catch up sooner or later, and we’ve got it all wrapped up for you. First off, these deals are no screaming bargains, but then the only screams we hear around here these days […]

I recently lived in Stavanger, Norway for two years and loved every moment. I affectionately refer to the area as utopia. The thought of Scandinavia may conjure images of a frozen tundra, but Stavanger is like the ‘California’ of Norway. It is well-situated on the country’s west coast and warmed by the Gulf Stream. […]