CUZCO, Peru – As many a Peruvian traveler can tell you, climbing Machu Picchu is easy, especially if you take one of those tourist buses that do most of the work. It’s embracing Cuzco that can be hard.
Sea-Tac Airport ranked fourth among major North American airports in March in on-time departures, new figures from Flightstats.com show.
It doesn’t matter if it’s spring break, Easter break, midwinter break or you just need a break, the Washington coast offers plenty of recreational escapes in the coming month.
The agency that operates the New York City area’s three major airports has a message for passengers who don’t turn off their cellphones or tablets before takeoff: Pay up, or see you in court.
Southwest Airlines Co. says it’s raising ticket prices to offset the high cost of jet fuel. And several other big airlines are following Southwest’s lead.
Camping on the Oregon Coast in late winter is a good way to break up the winter and enjoy fresh seafood and local craft beer, strolls on the beach and just relaxing with the sounds of crashing breakers nearby.
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MEKNES, Morocco – Visitors to Morocco usually head straight for the beaches or plunge into the winding alleys of exotic medieval markets, but this rich North African country also has a wealth of ruins from its days as a Roman colony.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – Like most of the people soaking up Sunday brunch at the Parker Palm Springs hotel, the hungover-looking dude in slacker attire with the fashionista girlfriend looked as if he had just rolled out of bed at 10:30 a.m. He also looked strikingly familiar – like a richer version of me from about 10 years earlier, pre-child.
SeaTac’s Alaska Airlines today sought to bolster its repertoire of routes from Washington, D.C.’s convenient Reagan National Airport with new non-stop flights to Portland and San Diego.
Lake Pend Oreille below makes Schweitzer Mountain feel like the Northwest’s own Lake Tahoe region. And the 2,900 acres of steeps, tree skiing and family-friendly groomers are a skier’s dream.
KEY WEST, Fla. — Lots of Northerners shake off the last of the cold weather with a trip south this time of year. We decided to head into the Florida sunshine on two wheels, on a motorcycle trip from Miami down through the Keys, where the flat lanes seem to skim you over the blue-and-aquamarine, coral-lined sea before you’re vaulted skyward up a causeway and on to another island.
MINNEAPOLIS — Fliers can stop sharpening their elbows. Overhead bins are getting bigger.
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SOELDEN, Austria —We arrived in Soelden after heavy snows had fallen and the sky had grown as blue and clear as an Alpine lake. (“We” being a family of three: husband, wife and a toddler named Ryan.)
Picture this: You’re standing on the edge of an island staring across beautiful bare fields lit by a pale sunlight. You’ve had no problem finding reasonably priced lodging, haven’t had to wait for a dinner table and there might even be a whale coming along soon. Best of all, you haven’t spent three hours in a ferry line.
Faced with a backlash from angry military families, United Airlines has relented on its policy requiring military families to transport their pets as cargo, not as checked baggage when going to or returning from overseas posts.
Katla Adalsteinsdottir was at a sewing machine, her eyes fixed on the bobbing needle, when I wandered into the Collective of Young Designers in Reykjavik, Iceland. Loops of down-tempo rhythmic whirring and electronic blips streamed from a small set of shabby speakers. She greeted me, glancing up quickly from her handiwork – an embroidered beige wool skirt that she would later add to the shop’s inventory of dresses, plush tunics and whimsical, flowing capes. The charming, cluttered shop is in a stone-walled subterranean level of a coffee shop that becomes a bar by late afternoon.
If you’re a first-timer on Maui, the guidebooks can help with the official checklist: sunrise at the Haleakala volcano. Snorkeling at Black Rock. Paddle-boarding off the coast in Lahaina. Been there. Done that, or just looking for something new? Pry yourself out of the lounge chair and put together your own mini-adventure. Here are three ideas for exploring off-the-beaten path.
A new rewards program will give travelers at Sea-Tac Airport opportunities to earn airline frequent flier miles for purchases at airport merchants and for parking in the airport garage.
BUCHAREST, Romania – On a Sunday morning in Bucharest, I knew just what I wanted to do: I wanted to go to church. I also wanted to go down to the Old City, visit a few museums and buy a warm pretzel from a sidewalk stand. But mostly I wanted to go to church.
Sea-Tac’s Alaska Airlines is adding two cities and subtracting one from its repertoire of East Coast cities it serves from the Puget Sound area.
ISTANBUL — The sea of Marmara shimmered to my right, a pod of dolphins played improbably in the ferry- and tankers-choked Bosporus strait, and minarets pierced my jet-lag fog on my first Istanbul evening.
QUALITO ISLAND, Fiji — We were dozing on the sand at the edge of the bluest lagoon I’d ever seen when suddenly I remembered. The snorkel trip. Grabbing our masks we rushed to the dive shack, catching the skiff as it was pulling out for the ride to the far side of the lagoon.
Elbe business owners can stop holding their breath. And travelers passing through the small community 17 miles from the main entrance of Mount Rainier National Park can stop holding their bladders.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Gene Autry I wasn’t. Barely an hour into an all-day trail ride, my hiking boots felt like ovens and my baseball cap barely shaded my face.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Virtual visitors to Mount Rushmore can now explore more remote areas of the memorial than some who see it in person.
The eighth-annual beer-tasting festival attracts brewers and beer lovers from across the Northwest.
HOBART, Tasmania – Last March, I embarked on a mini-road trip around Tasmania, the island off the southeast corner of Australia that is about the size of West Virginia.
PASADENA, Calif. – It’s 1922, and nothing much is up in Pasadena. Not among the orange groves, not along the leafy streets. Just as the little old ladies like it.
1. Pick the right program. You want a relationship with the airline that offers you the most convenient flights. Generally, it’s best to pick the largest carrier at your hometown airport.
LOS ANGELES — You know them as the folks who make you take off your shoes and bark at you about liquids and gels. But Tuesday, the TSA Chorus made hearts light at Terminal 4’s American Airlines gates as they performed for passengers caught up in the extra madness of holiday travel at Los Angeles International Airport.
NEW YORK – Before you board a flight this holiday season, think twice about stuffing that carry-on full of gifts to avoid a checked bag fee. You might get charged anyway.
If only it were as easy as over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house. But no, Thanksgiving, one of the most-traveled holidays of the year, creates special challenges for people on the Interstate 5 corridor.
Air France will leave the Puget Sound airline market next spring when it calls quits to its Sea-Tac-Paris route.
Amtrak is adding 11 trains in the Seattle-Portland corridor during the Thanksgiving season.
SeaTac’s Alaska Airlines will begin commercial flights powered by a mix of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from refined and reprocessed used cooking oils Wednesday.
SeaTac’s Alaska Airlines, which three years ago had no flights to Hawaii, on Tuesday announced new daily service from Oakland and San Jose in the San Francisco Bay Area to Honolulu.
It’s not too late to enjoy one last bonfire on a coastal beach, a fall-color road trip, a fall festival, a weekend picking huckleberries, a family fishing getaway or just a weekend of some solitude. You can do all that and more, while saving on your lodging costs.
A Democratic-led Senate panel has approved an increase in airline ticket taxes of up to $6 for a round trip in order to cover increased security costs at airports.
Delta Air Lines today unlocks the doors to the latest of its Sky Club passenger lounges, this one at Sea-Tac Airport's South Satellite Terminal.
WASHINGTON – For the next two months at Logan International Airport in Boston, passengers will be casually greeted by Transportation Security Administration officials. But the officers aren’t there for a simple friendly “hello” – they’re trying to deter and detect passengers who pose a risk to aviation security.
While sandboarding might be Florence’s most unusual attraction, the area has much more to offer. “We have a little bit of everything,” said Beverly Morgan of the Florence Chamber of Commerce. “People can do everything from play on the dunes to shopping.” Five things worth doing in Florence:
Some people come to Florence, Ore., for the sea lions, and some come to tour the lighthouses. Lon Beale came for the sand and never left.
For two young men who hadn’t been on bicycles since childhood, pedaling 4,733 miles across a country they’d never explored seemed daunting – but doable.
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