Travel - Atlanta topped Hotwire's fifth annual travel Value Index, which points out the top 10 cities where travelers can find deals.
Travel - Climbing’s elite headed to the jungle island in search of a bold way to the top of Mount Kinabalu. They had no idea how hard it would be just to find the bottom.
Travel - Hong Kong's biggest gallery crawl snakes through the city on March 17, when 62 galleries open their doors for the 10th annual ArtWalk, an entertaining evening of art, food and drink that raises money for local charities.
Travel - Shirley Tafoya, Travelzoo's North American president, talks about what makes Travelzoo tick, how it refreshes its inventory of deals and why subscribers trust it.
Travel - Continental Airlines' chief, Jeff Smisek, offered a rare public CEO tantrum on Tuesday at a J.P. Morgan investor conference. He was asked about the general tone in Washington toward the airline industry and took the opportunity to vent about the new federal rule targeting tarmac delays exceeding three hours. Smisek's blustery prediction that the public would suffer waves of canceled flights garnered heavy press attention so I thought it was worth transcribing the entire rant:The day that I rely on government to help this industry you should make sure that I get fired. Look, my goal in Washington is just to prevent them from doing more harm. And candidly what I’d like them to do is just leave us alone for a while. Because every time they try to make things better they just make things worse. An example of that is long tarmac delays. That’s solving a problem that doesn’t exist. I mean long tarmac delays are extremely rare. They do occasionally occur, there’s no question about it. But having a rule that requires us to cancel flights at three hours or suffer a fine of $27,500 per passenger, is inane. And so what we do in the face of a fine like that is we’re going to cancel a lot of flights. Which means customers who would have gone at two hours and 45 minutes –
Travel - Maison Moschino, a hotel from the Italian designer, opens in Milan.
Travel - Nowhere is a new Web zine of offbeat travel articles written by novelists and poets who view travel through their idiosyncratic artistic lens.
Travel - "My wife and I would like to celebrate our 25th anniversary on a Greek island. Any suggestions?"
Travel - A new miniseries bears down on the brutal, sometimes barbaric fighting in the Pacific theater.
Travel - The Department of Transportation's new rule, which takes effect April 29, orders airlines to let passengers off planes delayed for three hours or more or face hefty fines.
Travel - An airport official told KMGH-TV in Denver that the incident involved ''a couple thousands of bags over a couple of days.''