An authentic crêperie, a homey Ethiopian place and a down-home soul-food joint are among the city's favorite eateries.
A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.
Perveen Crawford became Hong Kong's first female pilot in 1995 and is soon to be Hong Kong's first female astronaut when she blasts off to sub-orbital space as a paying customer on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipOne.
New York, London and Hong Kong are the business hubs of the global economy. All major banks have their headquarters or offices in these cities and it's the same for the hotel industry.
Old-fashioned American bakeries are popping up everywhere on the body-conscious West Coast. Here, five of the city's sweetest sensations.
Back in September, Budget Travel asked for feedback about bona fide, no-holds-barred tourist traps that readers loved anyway. Here are the top picks.
On a nonstop flight to Las Vegas, Spirit Airlines loses Michael Germano's checked luggage. He files a missing luggage report and a lost luggage claim, but the airline is ignoring his requests for compensation. What's going on, and how can Germano get Spirit to respond?
"Stick to what you know" could be the motto for Branson this year as the Ozark resort town focuses on its wholesome country, pop music and family entertainment roots, plus recent upgrades in shopping and hotels, to ride out the national economic downturn.
An authentic crêperie, a homey Ethiopian place and a down-home soul-food joint are among the city's favorite eateries.
A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.
Perveen Crawford became Hong Kong's first female pilot in 1995 and is soon to be Hong Kong's first female astronaut when she blasts off to sub-orbital space as a paying customer on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipOne.
New York, London and Hong Kong are the business hubs of the global economy. All major banks have their headquarters or offices in these cities and it's the same for the hotel industry.
Old-fashioned American bakeries are popping up everywhere on the body-conscious West Coast. Here, five of the city's sweetest sensations.
Back in September, Budget Travel asked for feedback about bona fide, no-holds-barred tourist traps that readers loved anyway. Here are the top picks.
On a nonstop flight to Las Vegas, Spirit Airlines loses Michael Germano's checked luggage. He files a missing luggage report and a lost luggage claim, but the airline is ignoring his requests for compensation. What's going on, and how can Germano get Spirit to respond?
"Stick to what you know" could be the motto for Branson this year as the Ozark resort town focuses on its wholesome country, pop music and family entertainment roots, plus recent upgrades in shopping and hotels, to ride out the national economic downturn.
An American Airlines plane flew from Dallas to Paris even though a "large panel" fell off the underside as the flight took off, the airline said in a memo to pilots.
Newsflash: A cadre of superheroes has invaded one of Gotham's top cultural institutions, bringing swaths of bright color, pop graphics and an everyman theme to the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
When Jerry Leonard and his wife transfer from their cruise ship to a train, they give Princess their luggage, which includes a bottle of Cognac. The luggage is lost and later found, but the cruise line confiscates the Cognac. Should it replace the bottle -- or is he out of luck?
Drivers have long known that slowing down on the highway means getting more miles to the gallon. Now airlines are trying it, too -- adding a few minutes to flights to save millions on fuel.
One of Washington's new high-priced museums is lowering its admission fee in response to the economic slowdown.
Acupuncture is not just for people. It's also for cities -- if the city is Portland.
Even the mayor admits this is a town with an image problem.
For decades, visitors willing to shell out a few extra dollars at Gettysburg National Military Park could be entertained -- or bored -- by an electric light display showing troop movements in that pivotal Civil War battle.
Never one to follow the crowd, fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's clothes are bright, sexy and fearless. His innovative techniques, especially with leather and silk, and his love of adornment -- embroidery, applique, patchwork and diamante -- have made him the A-list's red-carpet darling.
Flamboyant and fearless, Roberto Cavalli is the peacock of the fashion world; with his body-hugging clothes, he woos women the world over.
Founded by Caesar, this cradle of the Renaissance nestles in the craggy hills of the Arno valley; its white houses with their orange roofs gleam in the hot sun.
Breakfast with coffee and a pastry in the sunshine in one of Florence's many squares -- we like to people-watch at Cavalli's Giacosa (Via della Spada, 10) or Caffè Rivoire (Piazza della Signoria).
Florence's beautiful people dress up in their designer clothes to adorn Capocaccia (Lungarno Corsini 12-14) for preprandial posing and delicious aperitivos. Perched atop the Otel Ristotheatre, Terrazza Martini (Viale Generale Dalla Chiesa) is another early-evening hotspot.
A stay in Florence won't be easy on your wallet. But pick with care, and you can still get a good bang for your buck.
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Hot summers when the city is crammed with tourists; cooler winters when the rain can swell the Arno: Florence is an all-year-round destination. Here are some of the city's seasonal highlights.
Tanya Gray, 28, works at a preschool in Florence, where she has lived for the last two years. She first moved to the city seven years ago from her home in Luxemburg, when she and a friend decided to travel to Italy's cultural capital to enroll as students.
It may be small, but Florence contains a quarter of the planet's UNESCO world heritage sites, which can be overwhelming for first-time visitors. With this ratio of classics per square meter, it's impossible to see everything in one visit -- so don't try.
Bob Ledford is promised a room with a two-sided ocean view when he books through Expedia. But when he arrives, the view isn't what he expected, the hotel doesn't seem to care, and Expedia won't post the negative review of the resort. What's wrong with this picture?
The National Folk Festival comes to Montana this summer, bringing the event's mix of "music, dance and tradition from across America" to historic Butte in Big Sky country.
Discount carriers used to be the darlings of air travelers, if not travel columnists. With low fares and high standards of customer service, what wasn't to like?
When Steve Meissner of Berlin bought a 1956 butter yellow Cadillac online, he could have simply had it shipped from Arizona to Germany.
First-class airline passengers can say goodbye to mystery meat.
The Department of Homeland Security unveiled measures Monday aimed at easing the aggravation associated with air travel, including new screening machines, clearer standards for identification, and a new effort to keep travelers from falsely being identified as potential terrorists.
The Transportation Security Administration calls its new system of scanning technologies "whole body imaging" -- and they ain't kidding.
American Airlines on Monday became the latest carrier to announce that it would require passengers to pack light, or pay up.
When it comes to flight changes and delays, Budget Travel's confessor says, "sometimes the agent is the last one to know."
Using your frequent-flier miles to get to Europe can save you a bundle, if you know the ropes and plan ahead.
Bart Everson's room rate at an Alabama resort includes a big surprise: a $166 "cleaning fee." The fine print in his reservation mentions a fee, but doesn't say how much he'll be charged. Should he still have to pay?
The Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday its second effort in three years to stop its managers in Texas from covering up air safety violations -- after a new investigation found the misconduct continued into last year.
Two pilots for Hawaii's Go airlines who overshot a runway by 15 miles while trying to land on the state's Big Island have been fired.
Airline and cruise ship companies will be required to fingerprint foreign nationals leaving the United States under a controversial Department of Homeland Security proposal released Tuesday.
Like almost everything else related to air travel in recent weeks, government proposals unveiled Wednesday rankled airlines and could be bittersweet for an already sour traveling public.
No one died during 2007 in accidents among larger scheduled U.S. airlines and smaller commuter aircraft, and deaths in private plane accidents dropped to 491, their lowest total in more than 40 years, the government reported Wednesday.
US Airways says it will begin charging passengers extra for an aisle or window seat on some of its planes.
The government is ordering airlines to double the compensation they must pay passengers bumped from oversold flights to as much as $800 under certain conditions.
Some travelers at key airports in New York and Los Angeles may be put through machines that see through clothing and provide a detailed image of a person's body beginning later this week.
The overnight long-haul doesn't have to be a killer. Follow some simple steps to survive the red-eye flight.
On March 30 the Open Skies treaty went into effect, liberalizing air travel between the U.S. and Europe. But how will the ease of restrictions on transatlantic routes affect business travelers?
This month, CNN Business Traveller is on board the first transatlantic flight to London Heathrow under the new Open Skies treaty between the E.U. and the United States.
With thousands of U.S. flights cancelled in recent weeks and criticisms over the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s inspection regime, U.S. passengers are beginning to doubt the safety of the nation's airline industry.
Josh Dorkin and his wife were scheduled to fly to Chicago last week for a wedding and family reunion. The couple paid about $300 for two tickets on American Airlines, but Josh found out that the flight was canceled after spending five hours on the phone with customer service.
Lonely Planet said Monday it stands by the accuracy of its travel guides following claims by an author that he plagiarized and invented sections of the books -- and did not visit one of the countries he wrote about.
A Lonely Planet author says he plagiarized or made up portions of the popular travel guidebooks and dealt drugs to supplement poor pay, an Australian newspaper reported Sunday.
A mangled and twisted metal tower that once broadcast radio and television signals to New York City from the top of the World Trade Center has a new home at the Newseum, Washington's monument to press freedom and other protections of the First Amendment.
Despite the recent spate of airline cancellations and record gas prices, Americans don't appear to be abandoning their summer travel plans.
Frontier Airlines sought bankruptcy protection Friday, the fourth carrier to do so in the past several weeks as exorbitant fuel prices eat into earnings and a weak U.S. economy keeps more people grounded.
American Airlines canceled more than 2,500 flights in the past three days because of inspections. Over the past three weeks, U.S. carriers overall have shut down about 3,700 flights, leaving travelers stranded and struggling to find ways to get home.
The chief executive of American Airlines, which has grounded almost 2,500 flights over the past three days, accepted "full responsibility" Thursday for failing to meet government inspection standards.
American Airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights Wednesday, more than one-third of its schedule, as it spent a second straight day inspecting the wiring on some of its jets -- the same issue that caused it to scrub hundreds of flights two weeks ago.
Izzie Alley, 11, looked around cautiously as she stepped inside the small New Orleans garage that has been temporarily converted into a studio apartment for the Strauss family.
Low-cost carriers -- AirTran, Jet Blue and Southwest -- took the top three spots in a national survey of airline quality, while the industry overall fared poorly amid rising fuel prices and increasingly fed-up consumers.
Skybus Airlines announced Friday it is shutting down its passenger flights -- becoming the third airline this week to cease operations.
For Jake Kwon, spring doesn't begin until the city's famous cherry trees have bloomed, wrapping the Tidal Basin in a stunning canopy of pink and white petals.
Before boarding an American Airlines flight to Dallas this week, Jody Johnson took an unusual pre-travel precaution: She checked to see whether the aircraft was among those recently grounded because of safety concerns.
The abrupt shutdowns of ATA Airlines and Aloha Airlines won't keep travelers off Hawaii's shores altogether, but they could make an already expensive vacation destination even pricier and potentially put the leis and luaus out of reach for many.
United Airlines canceled 31 flights Wednesday in order to test fire suppression systems on a number of Boeing 777 aircraft, after discovering a routine check had not been done.
United Airlines temporarily grounded 11 percent of its fleet and cancelled 31 flights Wednesday while it tested dozens of Boeing 777s to make sure components of a cargo fire suppression system were operating effectively.
The Breakers in Newport is an opulent, oceanside mansion completed in 1895 as a summer "cottage" for the wealthy Vanderbilt family. Less than 15 minutes away, and across a bridge into nearby Bristol, stands the 45-room Blithewold mansion and its verdant 33-acre garden estate of trees, shrubs and lawns.
Radiohead made news when it allowed its fans to pay whatever they thought was reasonable to download the band's latest album. Now, innovative restaurants around the world are doing the same thing -- letting their patrons decide how much their meal is worth.
On a chilly pre-dawn in this wondrous and once-secluded place, scruffy European backpackers and well-heeled American tourists have staked out their firing positions.
The landlocked country of Laos inaugurated a new highway that will allow a north-south land route connecting Southeast Asia and China to operate year-round, the Asian Development Bank said.
Your ginger-ale doesn't come in a glass anymore on most US Airways flights. On Delta you'll find yourself in a thinner, lighter seat. If you fly JetBlue cross-country, you'll get a dainty bag of 100-calorie crisps in place of the original snack box of cookies, crackers and spreadable cheese.
The next time the kids balk at doing their math or science homework, tell them about Chrissie, Kevin, Marc, Dustin and Steph.
US Airways Group Inc. has found problems on seven of its Boeing 757 aircraft during inspections prompted by the loss of a wing part from another company plane during a flight.
American Airlines canceled a handful of flights on Friday as it finished up its inspections of wiring bundles on some of its planes, while Delta Air Lines resumed normal service after completing its inspections.
Its opening may have been an unmitigated disaster of canceled flights, lost baggage and painful delays, but the architects behind Heathrow Terminal 5 say they hope their $8.6 billion colossus will eventually bring a different kind of drama to the traveling experience.
Delta Air Lines and American Airlines announced Thursday the cancellations of hundreds of flights so the companies can conduct inspections on bundles of wires in some of their jets.
Twelve towns -- from a French colonial village in Missouri to a town on the Florida Panhandle -- have been honored this year by the National Trust for Historic Preservation for their commitment to historic preservation and community revitalization.
Of the 28,000 commercial airline flights that take to the skies on an average day in the United States, fewer than 1 percent are protected by on-board, armed federal air marshals, a nationwide CNN investigation has found.
A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down a state law requiring airlines to give food, water, clean toilets and fresh air to passengers stuck in delayed planes, saying the measure was well-intentioned but stepped on federal authority.
What's not to like -- from a kid's perspective anyway.
My best friend from childhood is Italian-American. Very Italian-American. So when Mary Immaculata Ferrario Rinaldi invites me to visit the Pizza Capital of the World, I don't ask questions. She knows pizza.
Travelers frustrated with delays at airport security checkpoints may soon have a new fast-lane option. The Transportation Security Administration is experimenting with a new system, dubbed Diamond Lanes, that will allow travelers to choose one of three lines that best suits their traveling style: expert traveler, casual traveler, or families and special assistance.
The troubled Chinese man, obsessed with his outstanding debts, boarded the tourist bus and opened his jacket to reveal explosives. In the only English he spoke that morning, he told the frightened Australian passengers, "I'm sorry."
Welcome to Princeton University! Your first assignment is to take the year off.
When Ann Kahn was growing up, her family took the same summer vacation every year -- a trip to Yosemite. But things are different for her daughter, Ashley.
When Steve Chan's car rental company in Ireland runs out of the vehicle he reserved, it offers to set him up with a car from another company. He's led to believe that he'll pay the same rate, but when his credit card bill arrives, Chan discovers he's been billed more than twice the price he was first quoted. Now Alamo, the company he first rented from, won't refund the difference. Does Chan have a case?
Louisiana tourism officials have unveiled the first 26 sites on an African American Heritage Trail running from New Orleans to northern Louisiana.
United Airlines said Friday it boosted its ticket prices by as much as $50 round-trip, raising the stakes in the airline industry's battle against rapidly rising fuel costs.
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