Monthly Archives: November 2009

New travel books: 100, 300, 500 and 1000 ideas

The 2010 edition of Travel + Leisure’s “100 Greatest Trips” shows the upscale magazine’s editors suggesting some surprisingly down-to-earth destinations, such as the Jersey Shore, Niagara Falls, and Milford, Pa., mixed in

Glitch snarls air traffic in latest woes for FAA

For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation’s air travel system set off delays

Virgin America expands to Florida

Two-year-old airline Virgin America touched down Wednesday in Florida, marking one of its most ambitious expansion moves yet with a lavish welcoming ceremony that included Virgin Group Ltd. founder and billionaire Richard

Holiday windows from `SNL’ to child’s play

It’s not quite the warm and fuzzy crowd one imagines around most Christmas trees, but Barneys New York is celebrating the holidays with a motley crew that includes Roseanne Roseannadanna, the Church

Tree-lightings, from Rock Center to The Grove

This season’s Christmas tree displays include trees made from feathers at a historic home in Indianapolis, a thank-you tree in Boston sent from Nova Scotia, and the Obamas’ first National Christmas Tree

World’s top hotels

There’s visiting New York, and then there’s visiting the heart of Manhattan. At New York’s St. Regis hotel, guests stay in a 1904 Beaux Arts landmark building that underwent a $100 million

Hawaii’s famed white sandy beaches are shrinking

Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles. “It really used to be a beautiful beach,”

Italy opens new contemporary arts museum

Italy is opening its first national museum for contemporary arts and architecture in a bid to shed its image as merely a keeper of a glorious artistic past. The ⁈llion ($223 million)

BA chief says Iberia deal won’t raise fares

British Airways PLC began a charm offensive about its proposed merger with Spain’s Iberia SA Friday, dismissing suggestions the deal would increase fares or reduce standards at Britain’s flagship carrier. BA Chief

The nation’s weather

The remnants of Tropical Storm Ida were expected to continue tracking through the Southeastern U.S. on Thursday. The system was forecast to continue pulling abundant moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and