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American Airlines Pilots To Be Given iPads
TechCrunch is reporting that American Airlines will be the first major carrier to use iPads instead of paper flight charts. Why, you may ask, are they doing this? Are AA pilots young, hipster types that rely on Apple devices in a proportionally higher amount than the average populace? Not exactly, apparently the elimination of the […]
Is The Time To Visit Burma Now?
With the end of Secretary of State Clinton’s historic visit to Myanmar (Burma) wrapping up last week — the first of any high-ranking official from the U.S. in 50 years — it’s safe to assume that a good portion of the millions of eyes that watched as Clinton toured Shwedegon Pagoda in Yangon (barefoot no […]
Hotel Prices Around The World [Inforgraphic]
You knew that hotel prices in New York were up there, but seeing it portrayed in the infographic below only drives home how high they really are. Compared to places like Manila, Riga, Hanoi and Budapest, uber-expensive cities such as New York, Geneva, Venice and Moscow make you want to go running to the hills […]
American Airlines Pledges To Honor Reservations And Frequent Flier Miles
American Airlines announced today that it would be filing for Chapter 11 reorganization in federal bankruptcy court in New York to restructure the company’s debt and costs (which many believe to be code for adjusting their historically generous pensions and union contracts). So what does this mean for you, American Airlines ticket holder? American sent […]
September 11 Museum Opening Pushed Back Past 11th Anniversary
The opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum is being pushed back from its scheduled September 2012 opening date. The construction of the newly-opened memorial and the accompanying museum is a joint project between The National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc. and The Port Authority of New […]
Airfare Alert: Fly To India For Under $1,000
I thought I’d pass along this tip that came to me by way of Travelzoo today, a deal I hope is just the beginning of a wave of flight deals coming our way beginning this winter. Book by November 17 for flights via Qatar Airways from New York to Mumbai or Delhi for only $980 (r/t, […]
Paris’s de Gaulle Airport Named Worst In The World
How can a city so revered for its aesthetic beauty and so dependent on tourism (Paris is the most visited city on Earth) have the worst airport it in the world? Perhaps it is for those very same reasons. An overabundance of attention spent on maintaining the city itself and the burden of having to […]
Would A Greek Default Mean More Tourists?
News broke this week of a German tour operator attempting to amend their contracts with Greek hotels to include language that would allow payments in a new Greek currency (presumably a cheaper valued one) should the country drop the Euro. Which begs the question: Would a defaulted Greece mean cheaper prices for travelers? Not that […]
I Urge You (Again!) To Go To Egypt
In April of this year, I encouraged you to travel to Egypt with Megan Fox. You did not listen to me, and now Egypt’s tourism is on pace to finish 25% down this year, accounting for around a $3 Billion loss of Egypt’s $15 Billion tourist economy. Egypt hasn’t looked this bad since The Mummy […]
Number Of Paid Vacation Days By Country [Infographic]
If you’re a fully-employed American reading this right now, I’d advise you to quickly go to another page, perhaps a YouTube video of a mother cat hugging a baby kitten. Above is a chart of the the top 13 countries in the world ranked by number of paid vacation days they have per year (including […]