Cruising San Francisco, With No One Behind the Wheel

It’s the backpacker’s call to India, the sunseeker’s attraction to Mexico, and the digital nomad’s drive to get to Thailand: Go where the dollar buys more.

Travel payments is the theme for this week’s startup funding roundup. 

Alaska Airlines will fly its largest summer schedule this season and is boosting flights to some of America’s most popular national parks in the process.

Short-term rentals in cities and suburban areas are struggling with their occupancy rates. At Skift’s Short-Term Rental Summit, AirDNA Chief Economist Jamie Lane said the “mass exodus” of people from certain places is redefining where guests stay.

The U.S. Government is taking a summer road trip to make it easier for first-time passport holders to complete applications.

Traveling to Europe this summer? If so, we'll take a wild guess that you're visiting either Spain, Italy, France, or Greece.

The Oneworld alliance is getting a new full-fledged member in the South Pacific. Within the next year, Fiji Airways will become a full member of the global alliance, Oneworld leaders announced Monday.

Not long after my 48th birthday, in August 1999, my husband Barry invited me out for a margarita at Compadre's, a Mexican restaurant near our home in Palo Alto. It turned out he had an agenda.

For too many years, the lesbian bar suffered from a tragic narrative: It was disappearing. The once-ubiquitous venue found in almost every city and small town was no longer as necessary as it used to be, for some reasons good—a new level of acceptance, and anti-discrimination laws—and the less sunny, like the immense cost of operating a small business in America. The lesbian bar was so close to extinction in the US that The Lesbian Bar Project emerged in 2020 to help protect the remaining 20 or so spaces trying to survive a pandemic, through fundraising and awareness.

Southwest Airlines is making another round of changes to its route map.

It's still not entirely clear when American Airlines might receive or launch its first Airbus A321XLR aircraft — a single-aisle jet that promises to give it (and its competitors) new flexibility to fly to Europe.

My wife and I couldn't afford the constant apartment rent increases in our city, so we started looking for a tiny home at the end of 2021.