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March 30, 2005Don't overlook travel scholarshipsCLARKSTON, Mich. -- Do you know of a student who can't afford to participate in a school or group trip? The School Youth Travel Association Foundation is offering $1,000 "Road" Scholarships for students under age 26 toward the cost of...Read this update Airfare Soaring Because of High Gas PricesExperts say book your summer trip now If you've got a trip in mind, travel agents say book it now, before gas prices go up even higher. Airline ticket prices have taken off in recent weeks. Experts say fares are...Read this update Vacation costs on the riseThe price of lodging and dining in Nevada will increase by a combined average of 11 percent this year, well above the national average increase of 5 percent, according to a report from AAA Nevada. A family of two adults...Read this update Cambodian Govt makes tourist attraction out of Pol Pot hideawayELEANOR HALL: The United Nations has this week issued a call for member states to pledge tens of millions of dollars to pay for a long-awaited war crimes tribunal to prosecute surviving members of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia...Read this update Inspectors close warehouse for airline snacksBy Tom Rybarczyk Tribune staff reporter A warehouse that stores snack food for airline passengers remained closed at O'Hare International Airport early today after city inspectors found hundreds of rat droppings in the storage facility this week. Inspectors close warehouse...Read this update March 28, 2005How to get kicked off a flightEveryone in this life has their little pet peeves. Even flight attendants. The average passenger is usually unaware of how they are irritating us. Not to worry. I’m here to bridge that gap. Or maybe I should say, to connect...Read this update Airport Worker Takes Unexpected TripMILWAUKEE (AP) — An airport worker loading baggage in Milwaukee got locked inside the cargo hold of an airplane that flew to Philadelphia. Airport Worker Takes Unexpected Trip, continued...Read this update RFID in PassportsImagine, while traveling overseas, that you're wearing a big target on the back and front of your shirt saying 'American traveler'. One of the things we're taught to do is to prudently blend in with other people, no matter where...Read this update March 27, 2005Magazine features tourist charms of Appalachiaby Byron Crawford The National Geographic Society is about to put the "undiscovered treasures" of Kentucky's culturally rich Appalachian region on the map. Magazine features tourist charms of Appalachia, continued...Read this update When the tummy growlsFree airline meals are rare If you're flying to New York or San Francisco, can you expect a free hot meal aloft? Probably so, if you're in first class. Otherwise, it's unlikely (with Houston-based Continental as an exception). Here's an...Read this update Airline limits crews' North Pole exposure amid cancer fearsAirline Cathay Pacific has limited air crews' flights on the non-stop Hong Kong-New York route after it was found the journey could increase the likelihood of cancer. Airline staff say they have been limited to just two of the ultra...Read this update March 26, 2005Insurgents 'ambush Thai train'BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Suspected Islamic rebels detonated two bombs and opened fire on authorities riding in an armored railway car early in southern Thailand, wounding at least 19 people, police said. Insurgents 'ambush Thai train', continued...Read this update The Rebirth of BaliBy DENNY LEE STUMBLING down Legian Street on Bali on a humid Tuesday night, Tim Picken had a buddy on one arm and a beer on the other. He poked his head into a T-shirt shop, shared a joke about...Read this update Posted by Joe E on March 26, 2005 01:27 PM
Category: Mountain guides, porters face unemployment as tourists shun NepalNepal's mountain guides and porters face widespread unemployment because of an expected sharp drop in trekker arrivals and mountain climbing expeditions linked to the royal takeover and ongoing Maoist rebellion. Tourists arriving by plane in the landlocked Hindu kingdom fell...Read this update T-S-A gets hard eye for sloppy use of airline passenger infoWASHINGTON The Transportation Security Administration is being criticized for the way it handled personal information about airline passengers while developing a new screening system. A government investigation says T-S-A misled the public about its role in getting the information, although...Read this update Airline passengers injured in turbulenceSeveral passengers from a United Airlines flight from Europe that landed at San Francisco International Airport Wednesday were taken to the hospital after being injured when the aircraft hit severe turbulence, authorities said. The Boeing 747, with about 400 people...Read this update March 24, 2005Caribbean island bars gay, nudist cruiseSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A gay and nudist cruise was barred from stopping at the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis on Wednesday after authorities said the group would offend local customs. A police patrol boat stopped a Windjammer Barefoot...Read this update Backpacker Army Rebuilds Thailand's 'Beach'By Ed Cropley KOH PHI PHI, Thailand (Reuters) - To the strains of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley, a backpacker army of anybody from Australian computer boffins to Irish plasterers is rebuilding the tsunami-devastated Thai paradise of Koh Phi Phi....Read this update March 23, 2005Tourist army program to expandThe Defense Ministry has decided to expand the popular Marva program where tourists volunteer for eight weeks of military training with the Israeli army. Tourist army program to expand, continued...Read this update Youth 'Hijacks' Airport Bus to the AirportTOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese youth who wanted to go to Tokyo's Haneda airport boarded a bus heading there before threatening to hijack it unless it took him to ... the airport. Youth 'Hijacks' Airport Bus to the Airport, continued...Read this update Non-Euro EuropeHow do you make your painfully weak dollars go further? Take them to a euro-free zone. By Gary Lee There's a smart way for U.S. travelers to Europe to cope with the pinch on the pocketbook caused by the euro:...Read this update UAL pays top executives $1.3 million in bonusesBy Chris Walsh And David Milstead, Rocky Mountain News United Airlines paid $1.3 million in bonuses to its top five executives last year even as the bankrupt carrier continued to slash employee pay and benefits. All but one of the...Read this update March 22, 2005Teenager launches his own airlineA teenager is taking his obsession for flying to new heights by launching his own commercial airline. Martin Halstead, 18, is set to stage his inaugural flight from Oxford to Cambridge, which will take just 20 minutes, on 18 April....Read this update Where Does the Dollar Do Best?Where Does the Dollar Do Best? Introducing Frommers.com Price Index By Maureen Clarke Airfares may be low these days -- but getting there is a smaller part of the equation now, in the face of the dollar's declining value abroad....Read this update March 21, 2005Airline supports decision to fly onJETSTAR has defended a captain's decision to fly a stricken plane to Melbourne rather than turn back to Launceston. The Boeing 717 on the Friday night flight from Launceston to Melbourne, with 102 passengers on board, plunged 1200m after an...Read this update London Eye Brits’ top tourist spotBy Arifa Akbar For a structure dismissed by planners as "rubbish", it is amazing that the London Eye ever made it to tower over the British capital’s skyline. But five years on, the giant ferris wheel has earned its place...Read this update Cabbie returns RM1,000 left in taxi, Sarawakian tourist is touched by his honestyKUALA LUMPUR: Tourist Ting Huat Chew did not expect to see his wallet again after he dropped it in a taxi on his way to the Suria KLCC shopping complex here. He was pleasantly surprised when taxi driver M. Gunabalan...Read this update Woman paid invisible 'mermaids' airfareBy Michael Hartnack, Associated Press Writer HARARE, Zimbabwe — A woman testified that she paid a popular local musician to fly four mermaids from London to Harare to help her recover a stolen car and cash. Woman paid invisible 'mermaids'...Read this update Air passenger dies after being restrainedBy Helen McCormack Prosecutors in New York are investigating the death of an air traveller who was subdued by fellow passengers after he became disruptive. Air passenger dies after being restrained, continued...Read this update March 19, 2005LAX Resigned to Long Lines, Despite Cloud of TerrorismSuggestions in a Rand security study are too costly to implement any time soon, officials say. By Jennifer Oldham, Times Staff Writer Despite warnings by security experts that long lines at Los Angeles International Airport are vulnerable to a terrorist...Read this update Branson loses Australian airline fightby Andrew Clark Sir Richard Branson has lost control of his Australian budget airline, Virgin Blue, after a successful hostile takeover by his one-time partner in the venture, Patrick Corporation. Branson loses Australian airline fight , continued...Read this update In Cancún, Girls Gone MildBy MAUREEN DOWD My spring break experiences were grisly. One year I went to San Juan, where a young Puerto Rican businessman I met at a cockfight tried to insist that I give him sexual favors because he once dated...Read this update Ask the pilotBy Patrick Smith Crying "fire" at 35,000 feet. How the pilot missed his Brussels buffet. Four engines, three engines; divert or continue on? Our thanks, for want of a better term, to British Airways, whose recent double dose of mechanical...Read this update March 18, 2005Fliers Find Buying Onboard Food Hard to DigestBy Keith L. Alexander Whenever Sandra Wilson has a flight of more than two hours out of Reagan National, she races to California Pizza Kitchen inside the terminal for a small cheese pizza to take aboard. The Fairfax-based attorney pays...Read this update Wild parties, roughhousing wear on rentalsBy JEFF RAYMOND Valley Morning Star SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, March 18, 2005 — Stormy Wall couldn’t believe how filthy a carpet could be. Wall, who manages Padre South Resort on South Padre Island, has seen Spring Breakers shatter mirrors, take...Read this update DWI on airport tarmacHe wasn't pulled over on a highway or residential side street, but when he was arrested Tuesday, Ronald O. Ogembo had the telltale signs of a drunken driver: the smell of alcohol on his breath, bloodshot eyes and trouble keeping...Read this update Little extras lift JetBlue to top of customer pollsIs JetBlue the next Southwest? The 5-year-old New York-based airline has been the talk of the industry of late, landing atop customer-satisfaction surveys, including one released last week, and creating buzz enough to influence an industry full of rivals many...Read this update March 17, 2005Gay travel industry on the riseSouth Lake Tahoe - Under blue skies at Heavenly ski resort in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Steve Rowelo tromped through the slushy snow sporting a blond, curly wig, black fish-net stockings and a red and black can-can dress. Behind him,...Read this update Two years of thefts suspected at airportBy Peter Boylan and Ken Kobayashi A Transportation Security Administration official said yesterday that federal agencies are investigating whether four federal airport screeners stole money and valuables from luggage at Honolulu International Airport over a two-year period. Two years of...Read this update March 16, 2005Heathrow workers in strike ballotHundreds of baggage handlers at Heathrow Airport are being balloted on strikes in a dispute over contracts. The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) said nearly 800 workers were being balloted and the result will be known later this week....Read this update Travel Tip: Some hotels tack on daily gratuities to billBy Kitty Bean Yancey, USA TODAY After Regis Philbin tipped a bellman at Florida's ritzy Boca Raton Resort & Club last weekend, the talk-show host got a check-in surprise. The bellhop said that $9 covering his services would automatically be...Read this update Cops Greet Plane After Fight Over Airplane FoodMIAMI -- A passenger who thought he was entitled to a meal on a flight, not just pretzels, got into a squabble that let to police meeting the plane when it landed. Authorities said a Platinum level frequent flyer passenger...Read this update March 15, 2005British Firm Breaks Ground in Surveillance ScienceBy Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent MALVERN, England (Reuters) - The "suicide bomber" clips a shrapnel-filled belt around his waist and buttons up his jacket to conceal it. As he turns back and forth in front of a semi-circular white...Read this update March 13, 2005What made an Airbus rudder snap in mid-air?At 35 000 feet above the Caribbean, Air Transat flight 961 was heading home to Quebec with 270 passengers and crew. At 3.45pm last Sunday, the pilot noticed something very unusual. His Airbus A310's rudder -- a structure over 8m...Read this update Air China gets stuck on edge of L.A. International taxiwayLOS ANGELES – An Air China airliner with 336 people aboard became mired on the edge of a taxiway at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday when the aircraft ventured off the taxiway pavement and onto what an airport official...Read this update Airline cabin air 'no risk'FEARS that the confined space of commercial airliners and recycled air in aircraft cabins help spread flu and other respiratory diseases among passengers are largely unfounded, according to a new study. Airline cabin air 'no risk', continued...Read this update Buy tickets, sell shoes, eat cheap at Khao San RoadCash, tickets, bargain sleeps, late-night fun -- Bangkok's backpacker district is a place to be. BY CHRISTINA HOAG BANGKOK, Thailand - If you're in Bangkok with your worldly goods stuffed in a backpack, Thais know exactly where you're headed. ''Where...Read this update March 12, 2005Hundreds killed and injured in central Vietnam derailmentA passenger train has derailed near Phu Loc district of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on Saturday, killing and injuring hundreds of passengers. The express train E1 was en route from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City when eight...Read this update Another increase in airline fares on horizonTravel may cost up to $20 more for a round trip By BILL HENSEL JR. Many airline fares are going up, again. A fare increase of as much as $20 a round trip has been levied by a number of...Read this update March 11, 2005Jetsgo ceases operations; travellers strandedMONTREAL - Jetsgo, one of the country's upstart discount airlines, announced just after midnight Friday that it will stop all operations immediately. Passengers are advised to make alternative travel arrangements as there will be no aircraft or staff available. Travellers...Read this update Ryanair fined for 'misleading' pricingHolidaymakers can expect to see clearer pricing on travel and airline websites following a landmark court ruling against the no-frills carrier Ryanair. A jury at Chelmsford Crown Court found the airline guilty in 2003 of six cases of breaching the...Read this update 9/11 still tears through air faresMUMBAI: International airlines continue to impose a heavy insurance surcharge on airline passengers, even though insurance rates have softened significantly since 9/11. The surcharge, called ‘YQ’ charge in airline parlance, was levied to make up for the airline industry’s loss...Read this update March 10, 2005Three billion tourist dollars at risk due to tsunamiSINGAPORE (AFP) - Asia risks losing 3.0 billion US dollars in tourism revenues this year unless global travellers are quickly convinced the region is safe again after December's tsunami, a researcher said following the release of a survey on planned...Read this update Goldman Sachs flirts with Japan's love hotelsBy William Sparrow Japan's booming love-hotel industry is rumored to have attracted the attention of Goldman Sachs, the US-based heavyweight investment bank, brokerage and financial management house. Word on the street, according to CBS MarketWatch, is that Goldman may be...Read this update Residents' fury over backpacker hostel planBy Hannah Edwards Plans to build a 242-bed backpacker hostel at Bondi Beach have been met with angry protests from local residents. Waverley Council has received 49 objections from residents enraged at the size of the proposed Jacques Avenue development,...Read this update March 09, 2005One killed, 34 injured in 85- to 90-vehicle crash near Grand RapidsPLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- A sudden snow squall was being blamed for a series of chain-reaction accidents involving 85 to 90 vehicles on a western Michigan highway that killed one motorist and injured at least 34 others, police said....Read this update March 06, 2005Flying faulty jumbo across Atlantic saves BA £100,000By Ben Webster Turning back after engine failure would have left airline liable to pay out for delays under new rules on compensation A BRITISH AIRWAYS jumbo jet carrying 351 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing after an...Read this update March 03, 2005One Air Traveler, Two Airfares?Small-business owner’s suit against a major airliner could change travel guidelines for overweight travelers By Glenn Townes Entrepreneur Nadine Thompson was tired and wanted to relax and unwind on the flight from her home near Manchester, New Hampshire, to Chicago....Read this update Gap students 'learn little' about worldby Angie Brown GAP year students hang around with other Britons and spend a lot of time on the phone to their parents rather than immersing themselves in the culture of foreign climes, a three-year survey has revealed. Rather than...Read this update March 01, 2005The new travel discountsLondon, Tokyo, Berlin offer deals to counter dollar's decline David Armstrong, Chronicle Staff Writer The reeling dollar, battered by the strong euro, yen and pound, is making travel in the developed world more costly for Americans this year. This is...Read this update Jet Flies On With One Engine OutDespite LAX takeoff malfunction, British Airways pilot continues nonstop trip to London. The 747 lands safely but short of its destination. By Eric Malnic and Hector Becerra, Times Staff Writers A British Airways jumbo jet lost power in an engine...Read this update |
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