Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bangkok were the cities visited by the most tourists in 2013, according market research company Euromonitor International’s latest “Top 100 City Destination Rankings,” released today.
This article has been corrected.
Wi-Fi has become one of the most sought-after things on a flight, even more important to passengers than a reclining seat or extra legroom. The latest report from Routehappy, a website that compares airlines by in-flight amenities, finds that its availability is spreading fast.
There aren’t many perks left to being an economy-class flyer. Most airlines have thrust the burden of meals, checked bags, and seat arrangements onto their lowliest passengers. No doubt they will find other ways to make economy-class travel more miserable—starting with how long their aircrafts wait to land in an air traffic jam.
Airbnb has already overtaken major hotel companies in terms of its valuation by investors, but its growth could have it outpacing them in more concrete terms—actual guest bookings—in a few years, according to a Barclays research report.
Fans of the Seattle Seahawks are most enthusiastic about their team’s chances of reaching the Super Bowl of the National Football League this year.
Now that you’ve shaken off your holiday hangover and gotten back to the swing of things, it’s time to take that new year’s resolution seriously.
Your pet cat or dog has always had the short end of the stick when it comes to air travel, often traveling in uncomfortable and even dangerous spots deep in the bellies of aircrafts. And traveling with a horse (yes, people do) is a whole other story. But fear not, flyers, New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport has your back.
It’s yet another example of the Uberization of everything. Booking Now, which hit iOS stores today, is a hotel booking app that pairs a user’s GPS location with nearby hotels offering last-minute deals.
Southwest Airlines earns its keep by pairing high-quality customer service with a no-frills product. But the airline is getting decidedly frillier: It just launched a line of sleek handbags designed from old airplane seat cushions.
Bertrand Piccard had plenty of inspiration for building the world’s first solar airplane. Not only did he pilot the first around-the-world balloon flight in 1999, his father helped design the submarine that became the first to plunge undersea to hit the earth’s surface, and his grandfather rode the first air balloon into the stratosphere in 1931.
Cheap oil, which this week closed below $50 a barrel for the first time in nearly 6 years, has been a boon for beleaguered motorists who are enjoying lower prices at the pump. But will airfares follow the same downward spiral? The short answer is: Don’t hold your breath.
If globe-trotting is on your bucket list this year, travel guide company Lonely Planet wants to tell you where to go. Its list of the world’s best travel experiences of 2015, part of its latest ebook, “New in Travel,” will take you off the beaten track from Ireland to Panama to South Africa. Here’s a smattering of its 26 picks.
Not only is the exchange rate terrible for Europeans traveling to the US, now it’s taking them significantly longer to fly there, too.
The US Olympic Committee board picked Boston as America’s official bid city for the 2024 summer Olympics and Paralympics, hoping to bring the games back to the US for the first time since 2002 in Salt Lake City.
Europeans may have a reputation for long lunches and indulgent siestas, but those aren’t keeping their airlines from being remarkably punctual. European airlines dominated a ranking of on-performance airlines in 2014 published by OAG, an aviation data service that provides flight schedules worldwide. By contrast, only two of America’s airlines made it into the top 20.
Last year no doubt was a bad one for airline safety. While the rate of accidents was historically low—just one for every 1.3 million flights—21 of those accidents were fatal, a higher-than-average number that claimed 986 lives. Those statistics are courtesy of the aviation website AirlineRatings.com, which has just put out its annual list of the world’s safest airlines.
Travelers are endlessly seeking ways to crack the code of erratic airline pricing in search of the cheapest fare. A recent report (pdf) by online travel search engine Expedia and the Airlines Reporting Corporation offers some answers.
Although it isn’t legally required, most full-time employees in the US receive some paid vacation. It’s around 10 paid work days a year in addition to six federal holidays, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonprofit think tank.
Uber expected New Year’s eve to be its busiest night yet. And it was, in many cities where its dreaded surge pricing didn’t backfire. On a very busy night, the company said it delivered two million rides—and shared what it learned from those rides on its blog earlier today.
There’s good news for those who resolved to travel more in 2015. Overall, ticket prices will be cheaper globally, thanks to lower fuel prices, and a forecast economic pickup in some regions that could help drive flyer demand and airline capacity. That’s according to a data-heavy report (pdf) by online travel agency Expedia and the Airlines Reporting Corporation predicting air travel trends for 2015. Despite many industry reports indicating that prices will remain flat or even slightly increase in the new year, Expedia’s experts believe that many popular routes will be more affordable in 2015. Here’s a look at some of them.
Sweden is on its way to reaching zero road deaths per year. It’s an incredible feat, coming from a peak in road deaths in the 1970s. In 1997, Sweden implemented a “Vision Zero” plan in hopes of eradicating all road deaths and injuries, and it has already cut the deaths by half since 2000. In 2012, just one child under seven years old was killed on a road, compared with 58 in 1970.
Baggage screening officers at airports are good at spotting common suspicious objects. They’re less good at spotting rare ones—the kind that appear only once in hundreds or thousands of bags. How to improve their success rate? Monitoring them all and giving them feedback would be very labor-intensive. A research team at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, has devised another method, by crowdsourcing knowledge from millions of people playing a game on their mobile devices.
If you’re a frequent flier, you know all about air travel hacks. Whether it’s when to book the cheapest tickets, or how to get out of an airport the quickest, hacks make their rounds among travelers. 22-year-old Aktarer Zaman made it easy for travelers to engage in a very specific hack on his website, Skiplagged, by helping them buy what the industry calls “hidden city” plane tickets.
