Airline Cancellations: Travel Advisors Seek Shield from Blame
Airline cancellations are more the norm than the exception these days and often travel advisors are thrust into the middle, between their clients and the DOT. To that end, the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA) this week is urging the U.S. Department of Transportation to reverse course and not require travel advisors to pay client refunds out of pocket for […]
Top Tips for Traveling in 2023: Avoid the Avoidable
Top tips for traveling are always of value and, for 2023, consumer advocate Christopher Elliott identifies seven mistakes that are easy to avoid and could save a trip. In 2023, Nancy Aronson has already begun planning her travels. In order to experience the spring blossoms, she and her husband, Jules, plan to take a Danube River cruise […]
Stopover in Qatar for More than FIFA World Cup Thrills
Stopover in Qatar – it does not have to be for an exciting World Cup event. A stopover in Qatar is a worthwhile endeavor no matter what the season, no matter what the reason. In this smaller and smaller world, it is getting harder to find places that are not overrun by mass tourism. And […]
Lights of Christmas: Magical Festivals Near and Far
The lights of Christmas are magnets for myriad holiday festivals this season. Celebrating the winter solstice has always involved the lengthening of days by lighting candles and bonfires, but contemporary animated Christmas light exhibitions – especially with LED lights — are dazzling….By Susan McKee Lights of Christmas: The List Winter City Lights. Animated Christmas lights add Hollywood production values […]
National Travels: Snaking through Country’s Best and Worst Airports
National travels will be in focus this week as Thanksgiving is bringing a new high to travel statistics while the country climbs out of pandemic isolation. To that end, several surveys recently showcase the best and the worst airports for traveling through — and where to get stuck if you can or not get stuck, if […]
Paris Vacations Boosted by New Service from JetBlue
Paris vacations are always in vogue but the City of Lights is even more accessible now with a little help from JetBlue. This week the airline announce plans to expand transatlantic flying into Continental Europe with new service to Paris starting next summer, just in time for an expect surge in summer Paris vacations. Paris will […]
Flight Cancellations: Maybe We Should Look to Europe
Flight cancellations in the US are at an all-time high. After this summer’s airline customer service meltdown, consumer advocates and policy experts have seriously discuss adopting European-style consumer protection laws in the United States. “If the air travel miseries during the summer of 2022 have taught us anything, it’s that passengers flying in the United […]
Flights with Long Layovers? Make it a Playover at these Airports
Flights with long layovers need not be painful, especially with this list of best airports for long layovers. You don’t have to feel “stuck at the airport” with these veritable cities of entertainment, edification and shopping. Travel-Intel has done the research and come up with recommendations for travelers who may be looking at many hours […]
United Airlines: New Flights to Europe and Beyond
United Airlines is taking the burgeoning demand by U.S. travelers for flights to Europe and the Mid East and flying with it. The airline is expanding its international route system from the U.S. with the debut of a robust 2023 summer schedule that includes adding new service to three cities –Malaga, Spain; Stockholm, Sweden; and Dubai, UAE – […]
EVTOL Air Products Speeding Toward 2024 Scaled Launch
EVTOL technology, the go-to term for electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, is turning into the new investment darling of airlines and aerospace watchers and could ready to taxi passengers over the likes of Los Angeles and Paris as early as 2024. These are mann and unmann concepts that buzz around like drones using carbon-neutral technology to […]
Get Social