Biden administration touts airline refund rules in renewed push for 'simpler customer service'

Melissa Dewalt caught the travel bug a decade ago when she drove from her home state of Pennsylvania across the country to California to visit her then-boyfriend. She then road-tripped north to Seattle.

Clarksville, a historic district of Austin, Texas, has lately emerged as a stylish dining and shopping enclave. Among the area’s most compelling new businesses is La Embajada, a design shop housed in a 1923 Craftsman bungalow. Combining the hospitality and interiors expertise of its founder, Raul Cabra — who has designed tableware for some of Mexico City’s most celebrated restaurants, including Rosetta and Pujol — La Embajada presents a refined, regionally diverse selection of Mexico’s artisanal offerings. A series of small rooms display vintage and contemporary furniture, from stately midcentury armchairs and 1970s glass sconces to a minimalist agave fiber rug by the Oaxaca-based textile artist Trine Ellitsgaard. The house is also an actual residence. Cabra often stays in the bedroom up the creaky stairs, and he’s recently made it available for short-term stays (bookings include a daily basket of baked goods from Austin’s Swedish Hill). Guests can purchase the room’s handmade décor, such as a pair of sleek bedside lamps in milky white onyx, a 1960s La Malinche dresser and a bedspread from a Michoacan manufacturer that once supplied Herman Miller. Downstairs, glassware, candles and gifts fill a section modeled after a typical general store in a small Mexican town. But La Embajada’s heart is its inviting kitchen, where visiting chefs cook elaborate meals and staff prepare ice cream and coffee. In another twist, every bespoke detail — including a hammered copper sink, caramel-colored tiles and waxed pine cabinets — can be custom-ordered for one’s own home.

Despite 481 orders from airlines around the world, Boeing can't sell US carriers on its new widebody jetliner.

United Airlines flight attendants voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike as tensions with management rise. 

America's third-smallest state by land mass is suddenly at the center of the nation's latest airline turf war.

Saving on flights to South America just got easier with deals from American Airlines to some of the most popular destinations across the continent. 

Frontier Airlines unveiled 11 new routes across 15 airports that are scheduled to launch in October and November.

Alaska Airlines cleared a major hurdle this week with the Department of Justice and its intended merger with Hawaiian Airlines. Getting regulatory approval from the DOJ is a huge step.

The flag carrier of Mexico is growing in Miami with an all-new route to Cancun, Mexico.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Scarlett Kiaras-Attari, a marketing executive and education content creator who moved to the UK for her studies. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Aug 23, 2024 • 7 min read

Ukraine's military says it used high-precision US glide bombs for strikes in Russia's Kursk region and that is has recaptured some territory in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv that has been under a Russian offensive since spring.