With low-cost carriers collapsing on a seemingly regular basis, here’s what you should keep in mind when booking a flight. When the budget airline Wow Air abruptly ceased operations earlier this year, thousands of travelers were left stranded and scrambling, on both sides of the Atlantic, to make alternate travel …
With 52 primary languages, over 1,000 dialects, and 27 currencies, Asia is a potpourri of different cultures, races, and economic environments. While many entrepreneurs find the diversity daunting, online travel startups thrive on it. Such cultural vibrance positions Asia as an attractive destination for travelers of all stripes, seeking anything …
HONG KONG (AP) — When businesswoman Ren Hong flew home after a recent trip to Beijing on state-owned Air China, she was hoping for a decent inflight meal to tide her over until she got back to the spicy cuisine of her native Sichuan province. The airline’s meager offering, which …
Bangkok’s Don Muang airport has reopened to traffic after it was inundated by last year’s devastating floods. The first passenger flight took off from the airport bound for the northern city of Udon Thani early on Tuesday. Bangkok’s second airport and domestic terminal, Don Muang has been closed for four …
EVA PICKENS has made the six-hour drive between Huntsville, Ala., where her son lives, and her hometown near Destin, Fla., too many times to count. So when she saw that a carrier called Vision Airlines was advertising $49 one-way nonstop flights between the two places, she snapped up a ticket. …
Berlin’s once run-down district of Kreuzberg has been a symbol of Germany’s celebrated alternative culture for decades. It revels in a reputation for riots, ethnic diversity, squatting and “scene” bars and clubs. It has returned a Green MP to parliament for almost as long as its inhabitants can remember.