From Lifehacker Travel: Have you ever sat on a long flight and been mesmerized by the large screen map of the plane’s position as it flew across the country or the ocean? More often than that, have you ever been waiting to pick someone up at the airport and wanted to know exactly where the…
Think about this for a second: If you were in an accident and a paramedic was trying to reach a loved one on your cell phone, how could they tell who to call? Obviously, they wouldn’t know Ellen is your wife or Sara is your daughter. So after the British tube bombings, British paramedic launched…
Detroit and Minneapolis-St. Paul were not the best destinations last Friday when the mechanics walked off the job from Northwest Airlines Corporation. But America’s fourth-largest carrier vowed to keep flying a full schedule with its replacement workers. According to www.nwa.com, some late-evening flights were delayed, but it all could have been far worse than it…
From Gadgetopia via the The International Herald Tribune: “Travel managers feel threat of extinction: Much like the Internet is slowly killing off the travel agent, it’s apparently going to do the same for the corporate travel manager. “Two years ago, Akamai dumped the agency for an online travel management company, Expedia Corporate Travel, to set…
Have you heard about Billion Dollar Babes? Fashionistas in LA and NY know the company was created in 2001 with invitation-only, quarterly sample shopping events featuring 40+ designers. Now, they’re also held in London, Chicago and San Francisco. In fact, the SF sale comes to SF in October 14-15 and December 10-11 after a successful…
If you’ve ever flown First-Class — or even Business Class — on a long flight, you’ve no doubt vowed never to fly Coach again. I have. But I can’t always afford the upper echelon seats or have enough miles to cash in to get the chilled champagne, hot towels and warm cookies. But now, according…
Qantas Airways Ltd., the largest airline in Australia, announced it will commence non-stop flights next March between Sydney and sister city, San Francisco. There will initially be three flights a week on Boeing Co. 747-700 planes. Plus, Qantas will add flights between Sydney and Vancouver with a stopover in SFO during North America’s winter, spring…
Fueled by record highs of oil — above $67 a barrel on Friday — most airlines are raising their fares $6-10/route to compensate for prices they pay for jet fuel. In fact, the price of U.S. oil rose more than 7% this past week. More amazingly, it’s climbed over 50% since January. With growing global…
The original Emporium department store building in San Fransco first opened its doors in 1896. Two centuries later, in Autumnn 2006, it will become the focal point of Westfield San Francisco Centre as the edifice is transformed to become a brand spanking new Bloomingdale’s. This nearly 500,000-square foot, multi-level vertical shopping center in the heart…
When the new, 2-million square foot DFW International Terminal D opened last week in Northern Texas, so did 49 restaurants, retail and service shops. In fact, the new terminal, the most advanced built in the US since 9/11, will offer international passengers flights to a record 38 global destinations, plus an unparalleled list of options…
Northwestern University’s national champion Women’s Lacrosse Team was invited to meet President Bush at the White House on July 12. Because several of the ladies chose to wear comfortable flip-flop sandals in the scorching DC heat, they were criticized by staffers and created a groundswell of emails –– both positive and negative about their choice…
Who’d have ever thought of grouping New York’s Catskills with the South Pacific’s Cook Islands? Or Baltimore and Barcelona? Or even Cambria (near Hearst Castle) in California and a town in Vietman? Arthur Frommer, that’s who. He’s recently polled hundreds of global experts and published their Top 10 Up and Coming Destinations For Summer 2005.