Four Seasons Hotel New York, one of the most iconic hotels in the Big Apple, is officially reopening next month after years of closure. It's now accepting reservations for stays starting Nov. 15.
17.10.2024 - 15:31 / travelandleisure.com
San Antonio and San Diego are poised to land new nonstop flight options to Washington, D.C. as soon as early next year.
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday tentatively awarded new flights at Washington’s Reagan National Airport to American Airlines for a daily flight to San Antonio, and to Alaska Airlines for a daily flight to San Diego. Both cities lack nonstop flights to National Airport, which is just across the Potomac River from the capital, because of a federal rule that bars most flights longer than 1,250 miles from the airport. DCA’s main runway is one of the busiest in the U.S., and the airport is generally considered the most convenient to get to from downtown D.C., making its routes especially sought after by airlines.
Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Seattle would also gain new flights. While they already boast nonstop options from Washington National, Sin City would gain a new nonstop on Southwest Airlines; San Francisco a second flight on United Airlines; and Seattle a new option on Delta Air Lines.
If the DOT’s decision is finalized — and they almost always are — the five new flights would begin within 90 days, or in early 2025.
The new flights would give San Antonio and San Diego residents easy access to Washington’s many sights. From the iconic monuments along the National Mall to a tour of the U.S. Capitol or a visit to the world renowned Smithsonian Institution museums.
“With the largest concentration of military assets in the world and the largest national defense workforce in the country, a top-tier biotech and innovation economy — and as the center of binational business with Mexico — this nonstop flight will be a major boon to those doing important business in our nation’s capital,” said San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria in a statement.
And Washingtonians could hop on one of the new flights to take in San Antonio’s famed River Walk with its shops and restaurants. Or visit San Diego’s beaches and soak in the city’s relaxed Southern California vibe.
American plans to celebrate its new Washington-San Antonio flights by numbering them 1718 and 1947, or the years San Antonio was founded and the U.S. Air Force — San Antonio is home to Lackland Air Force Base — was established, respectively.
Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, and Spirit Airlines also each sought one of the DOT’s five new Washington National flights but were not successful in their applications.
Four Seasons Hotel New York, one of the most iconic hotels in the Big Apple, is officially reopening next month after years of closure. It's now accepting reservations for stays starting Nov. 15.
In 2014, when the artist Dan McCarthy moved from Brooklyn into a converted schoolhouse in upstate New York, he decided the grand hall would be a future gathering spot for his many Facepots: large, wonky vessels decorated with a spectrum of grins and grimaces. The earliest ones, about a decade old, recall a time of emotional swings. “I hadn’t even found the clay that worked,” McCarthy says of that experimental phase, “so a lot of the pots were breaking in the kiln.” He learned to relinquish control, repairing the salvageable works using the Japanese technique known as kintsugi, in which mended seams are accented in silver or gold. The Facepots brought a new openness to McCarthy’s practice, as did the Hudson Valley. Absent the city’s pressures, he explains, “I was like a kid — on my hands and knees, lost in making a thing.” “Freedom,”a new monograph of McCarthy’s work, charts that arc, with nods to his Southern California upbringing, seen in rainbow-colored paintings of surfers and songbirds perched on guitars. Birds also animate new ceramic works in his solo exhibition at the Tokyo gallery Kosaku Kanechika, on view through Nov. 16. For McCarthy, these first faceless pots offer a shift in narrative. “Instead of a vessel, maybe it’s a nest,” he says, describing a fascination with his neighborhood birds. Kintsugi-like detailing appears on these pieces, too: Silver-leafed slabs camouflage the occasional split, while shiny rectangles evoke the little mirrors tucked inside birdcages. For the artist, fresh off his first flight to Japan, it’s a time of possibility. “I’m 62, which is old and not,” McCarthy says. “I think I’ve got another act in me. It should be an adventure.”
For a trip in June 2023, I booked a first-class ticket on Japan Airlines from New York to Tokyo (and continuing on to Osaka) using 100,000 miles I had accumulated on Alaska Airlines, one of JAL’s partners. The flight from New York to Tokyo was canceled a few hours before departure because of a mechanical failure. A Japan Airlines agent categorically refused to help me rebook, even when I offered to take a downgrade in the following days or fly another airline. The agent insisted I take it up with Alaska, in direct violation of JAL’s contract of carriage, which requires it to book me on an upcoming flight with it or “any other Carrier.” Alaska could only refund my miles, so I ended up paying for a last minute, one-way ticket later that day on United Airlines to Tokyo and then a train ticket to Osaka, for a total of $3,400. That is far more than the value of the refunded Alaska miles. Can you help?
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Five new long-distance domestic flights are coming to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).
Delta Air Lines has announced that its newest premium lounge will be located at its Mountain West hub, where the carrier is boosting international service over the next year. Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) is slated to receive a Delta One lounge, as confirmed by an airline spokesperson to T+L. While the exact opening date hasn’t been shared just yet, this marks the airline's fifth Delta One lounge in the country. A step above the existing network of Delta Sky Clubs, the Delta One lounges are exclusively available to long-haul business or first-class passengers.
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