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Now that the recent spate of fare sales to London is winding down, Air Canada resumes its reigning role as price leader to Britain. The Almost Indecent sale that started in the spring officially ended July 17, but the "indecent" fares continue to be available from almost anywhere in the U.S. that Air Canada touches […]

In case of rip current, swim parallel to shore. I should have known this at 19, but for some reason it was never covered in any swim class I had ever taken. One summer in college, I had tagged along on a trip my then-boyfriend (let’s call him T) and his family was taking to […]

Chicago
• Paramount Room: Located in a former speakeasy, this new two-story gastropub in River West opened on Friday.
Los Angeles
• Alife: A west coast branch of this NY shop, now open on Fairfax, offers a rotating stock of rare sneakers for the footwear-obsessed.
• Bastide: Former four-star restaurant finally reopens today under the direction new […]

Our Eat n’ Sleep feature profiles a restaurant in a random city and a hotel nearby. It’s kinda like that old show “Dinner and a Movie” but you know, with restaurants and hotels. And better jokes.

Sometimes the best Eat ‘n Sleeps happen in the same place. That’s definitely the case at the Radisson Aruba Resort […]

You told me where to go, and I eated it — here’s the authoritative rundown on the top 20 macaroni & cheeses in New York City. Yesterday was the macaronus porn, and now it’s time for the money shot(s). Note that this list was entirely reader-generated, in terms of selection; I sampled all the macs […]

On Mondays (or in this case, Tuesday), Debriefer presents city picks from the previous Friday’s interview. Here’s a range of Miami picks from This American Life’s Jane Feltes.

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According to Business Travel World, British Airways has established a Global Traveller Advisory Board (no, not this Global Traveller!) to give formal feedback on service and trials.
Willie Walsh, BA’s chief executive, said: “This board is at the heart of finding out what our customers want and feeding that back into the business.“The members are not […]

To categorize the new Indigo Patagonia hotel and spa (http://www.indigopatagonia.com) in Puerto Natales, Chile, as a cool place is to make use of the word cool in both its old and new meaning.
The old cool — as in somewhat coldish, refreshingly chilly — is a
fitting description of the six-storey, 28-room block of a building. It
is […]

Sometimes it is very useful to have information on airline schedules and on-time data at your fingertips.
Yes I am again sitting in an airport facing a probable mis-connection later today. Fog elsewhere in the network has disrupted the timetable in such a way that one of my flights is now due to arrive an hour […]

You have to really want to get to the Isle of Jura in the Inner Hebrides on the west coast of
Scotland. Even the ever-optimistic PR people admit that “there is no
quick way to get there.” The fastest way from London takes up a day and
involves two planes and a ferry. George Orwell, who wrote 1984 […]