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Compensation for your travel troubles

Compensation for your travel troubles

The day I was supposed to fly from London to Newark this spring, British Airways sent an e-mail pronouncing the flight had been canceled. Once I called to rebook, the agent offered a flight two hours past, which intended my boyfriend and I needed to drop the whole lot and […]

 
 

Big cruise lines post onboard crime data

Big cruise lines post onboard crime data

MIAMI — For the first time, the three greatest U.S.-primarily based cruise traces on Thursday began posting on their web pages more comprehensive data about allegations of great crimes committed aboard ships.

 
 

Crowds return to Las Vegas, but gamble less

Crowds return to Las Vegas, but gamble less

When the closing recession battered the nation, the bottom fell out in Las Vegas. One out of every six jobs vanished. House costs dropped as much as 50 percent.

 
 

Flying cars: Waitingin the wings or poised for takeoff?

Flying cars: Waitingin the wings or poised for takeoff?

Look, up within the sky, it’s a fowl, it’s a airplane, it’s… smartly, in case you were in Oshkosh, Wis., this week, it just might have been a glimpse of the future because the Transition flying car took to the sky in its first public flight.

 
 

All Disney parks to use wireless MagicBands as tickets

All Disney parks to use wireless MagicBands as tickets

Traveling the Magic Kingdom is usually a magical expertise, if it wasn’t for all the long lines made worse by way of an antiquated ticketing device. But identical to superb know-how can seem supernatural, Disney has decided to offer, as an alternative choice to paper tickets, wi-fi “MagicBands” the place […]

 
 

Sand storm shuts down Calif. highway

Sand storm shuts down Calif. highway

    

 
 

Tornado touches down north of Milan

Tornado touches down north of Milan

    

 
 

Plane makes belly landing in Newark

Plane makes belly landing in Newark

    

 
 

Helipad build for Russia’s Vladimir Putin

Helipad build for Russia’s Vladimir Putin

    

 
 

Barbie Dreamhouse draws kids and protesters

Barbie Dreamhouse draws kids and protesters

    

 
 

Do well-needed vacations actually bum us out?

Do well-needed vacations actually bum us out?

Spend a bit of time in an airport and you’ll quickly be able to tell the travelers setting out on a trip from these returning: Departing globe-trotters are those just about dancing with anticipation, while these simply back do a zombie shuffle for you to airport parking.Coming house is tricky. […]

 
 

FCC moving forward on speedier in-flight Internet service

FCC moving forward on speedier in-flight Internet service

U.S. federal telecommunications regulators are pushing in advance with efforts to carry faster Internet provider to industrial and private airline flights.The Federal Communications Fee on Thursday started deliberations on a thought that would provide a new type of in-flight broadband service promising U.S. fliers better Wi-Fi speeds and better connections. […]

 
 

Goats to clean up at Chicago’s O’Hare International

Goats to clean up at Chicago’s O’Hare International

If they had passports, they’d most certainly eat them.A herd of about 25 goats will quickly arrive at Chicago’s O’Hare Global Airport and go to work munching weeds and invasive plants on about one hundred twenty acres of airport-owned land that is difficult to get to with conventional landscaping gear. […]

 
 

‘Tallest’ building in the West? Symbolic One World Trade Center aspires with spire

‘Tallest’ building in the West? Symbolic One World Trade Center aspires with spire

Surrounded via sacred ground, destined to turn out to be a Large Apple icon and watched with hope by using an entire nation, the outstanding new skyscraper in an effort to reshape New York’s skyline is one step nearer to completion.When crews carry the final sections of spire to the […]

 
 

8 must-have travel gadgets

8 must-have travel gadgets