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A fair few budget airlines over in Europe have been doing it, but there’s been a shocked reaction this week in the US after American Airlines announced that they will start charging passengers a $15 fee for checked baggage.
The charge starts from June 15, and will apply to all American Airlines passengers who buy a [...]

With the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games drawing ever nearer – and with the Olympic torch already making it into China – the half a million foreign tourists expected to head into China to watch Olympic events should be making their final travel arrangements. With another two million domestic tourists expected t be flooding into Beijing [...]

With the summer tourism peak just starting up, you could be forgiven for getting a bit worried about whether or not you can get around safely once you’ve landed at your destination. In the last week or so there seem to have been endless news items about vehicle crashes involving tourists, which could almost make [...]

Travelers across the US, as well as the rest of the world, had their eyes on the big airline merger news this week: Delta Airlines and Northwest Airlines will, as long as they get the legal green light, become one. The plan is to keep the name Delta, and the resulting airline will be the [...]

Since the REAL ID Act was passed in 2005, there’s been all kinds of discussion across the United States about what data will be required and how privacy will be protected, whether or not such a system is constitutional and how people without REAL ID will be discriminated against.
What we really [...]

Frommer’s has been telling travelers where to go since 1957–first with its popular guidebooks and more recently on the web. Each year, the Frommer’s editors get together and choose the top destinations for the coming year. This year’s list is surprising. It offers everything from the Jersey Shore to Morocco. Below [...]

At the beginning of every year, the travel media industry likes to predict the next big travel trends for the coming year. Whether they make these predictions come true by the simple act of publishing them or whether they’re based in sound research is perhaps open to question, but the trend list [...]

You might have heard of the New 7 Wonders of the World project, which culminated in July this year with the announcement of seven modern day sightseeing must-sees. With that project behind them, the organizers are busy working on the New 7 Wonders of Nature nominations, a long process which will see 21 finalists selected [...]

U.S. to free up skies for holiday – USATODAY.com
The White House on Thursday announced a raft of new measures designed to minimize airport delays during the busy Thanksgiving holiday and toughen penalties when airlines bump passengers or operate chronically delayed flights.
Top 10 Thanksgiving destinations – Seasonal- msnbc.com
We’ve come up with a [...]