Mid-Atlantic Snowstorm Shuts Down Travel

by Jessica MCILHINNEY on February 8, 2010

The snowstorm that blew through the mid-Atlantic east coast this weekend left many flights canceled and delayed, roads un-drivable and hundreds of thousands of people out of power, making for tough travel conditions. After a day of air traffic cancellations, things started to get back in order, but the power was still out.
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Starwood Reports $107 million 4Q Loss

by Ella FAIRCHILD on February 5, 2010

This week Starwood Hotels & Resorts reported a 4Q loss of $107 million, or 59 cents per share due to vacation-ownership business-related charges. However, the hospitality company was still able to beat projections from analysts, which gives signs that business and leisure travel is recovering slowly.
Not including one-time charges from weakened time-shares, Starwood actually [...]

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TripAdvisor’s Top Ten Dirtiest US Hotels

February 4, 2010

TripAdvisor, the premier travel website that allows users to book hotels and provides other travel information, has released a list of the dirtiest hotels in the US. This list has been compiled using all of the customer reviews that have been left on their website.
The dirtiest hotel is the Heritage Marina Hotel in San [...]

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Trial Opens over Air France Concorde Accident

February 3, 2010

A trial for a crash that happened almost 10 years ago is finally underway as of Tuesday. On July 25, 2000 an Air France Concorde jet plummeted from the sky only a couple minutes after taking off and smashed into a Gonesse suburb hotel, exploding on impact. All of the 100 passengers and [...]

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Passengers Refusing Scan at Heathrow and Manchester Airports Banned

February 2, 2010

Heathrow Airport and Manchester Airport began operating full body scanners on Monday morning. Anybody that the security staff chooses to go through the machine doesn’t have a choice - unless they want to be banned from their flight by refusing.
A Department of Transport spokesperson said that this is a response on national security grounds. [...]

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United Airlines Reports Returning Business Travelers

February 1, 2010

According to United Airlines last Wednesday, business travelers are starting to travel by air more. The US carrier says that it is seeing an improvement in demand for premium and business travel for sure. United Airlines isn’t the only one to notice either, as other big airlines have said they’ve noticed it too. [...]

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Security Fears Surround World Cup

January 29, 2010

The lead up to the World Cup in South Africa has been an interesting one.  Many have wondered whether or not it was a good idea to have such a massive event in Africa, but the skeptics were silenced by those who said it could be a major boon for the region.  There have been [...]

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Company Fined for Man Killed at Heathrow

January 28, 2010

Airports in the United Kingdom have found themselves in the news a lot lately and none of it has been positive.  There have been several attempted terrorist attacks over the last few months which have once again stymied airport traffic and forced airports and airlines to increase their security.  Heathrow airport has taken an especially [...]

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Interpol Arrests Man in Airport after Warning

January 27, 2010

Since the failed Christmas day attack in which a young Nigerian man tried to explode a trans-Atlantic flight headed to Detroit with a bomb he had in his underwear, airports around the world have had to step up their security efforts, especially on flights coming to or from the United States or the United Kingdom.  [...]

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Travel Insurance May be Rip Off

January 26, 2010

There has been a lot of talk about travel insurance in the news these days for a variety of reasons.  Recently the Post Office Insurance company released a statement in which they encouraged people going on winter sport holidays to buy more insurance.  Also, many travel insurance companies have been trying to take advantage of [...]

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