Travel in city Tucson

Phoenix is the heart of the Valley of the Sun. It is the fifth-largest metro area in the US, but this city does not enthusiastically embrace the hustle and bustle of its counterparts. Instead, sunshine and saguaro cacti rule supreme, setting the scene for an outdoor enthusiast’s paradise.

For the first time in the summer of 2025, Alaska Airlines will add service to Anchorage from Detroit and Sacramento hubs with seasonal nonstop flights and resume nonstop service between Fairbanks and Portland.

Thousands of travelers trying to make it to their loved ones for the holidays were stuck at airports through much of Tuesday after American Airlines briefly grounded all its flights in the United States because of a technical issue and bad weather made those delays worse.

Frontier Airlines, a discount carrier based in Denver, recently announced 16 new routes spread across international and domestic destinations, including Antigua, Las Vegas, and Orlando. Best of all, the airline is celebrating the new routes by offering introductory fares as low as $19. The airline will begin weekly service to Antigua and Barbuda from San Juan, Puerto Rico on February 15, 2025.

Nov 18, 2024 • 6 min read

Southwest Airlines has extended its bookable flight schedule through April 7, 2025.

Southwest Airlines is expanding its flight schedule and adding new destinations.  The airline known for low fares and free checked bags recently expanded its flight schedule to April 7, 2025, and added new flights to popular spring break destinations such as Punta Cana and Cabo San Lucas. In total, the airline added six different routes to its spring schedule, according to a news release.  From the music city of Nashville, Tennessee, Southwest will begin weekly, Saturday service to both Cabo San Lucas / Los Cabos, Mexico, as well as Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic on March 8, 2025.

Southwest Airlines is back with another big network update.

It was another busy month for airline network planners.

On an otherwise unremarkable Saturday in Tucson last month, I visited the intersection of the Harlem Renaissance and romance lit with Netflix darling Tia Williams, brushed up on global security threats with MSNBC contributors Barbara McQuade and Frank Figliuzzi, got an easy Roman-Jewish cake recipe from cookbook wunderkind Leah Koenig, and caught a dramatic reading by National Humanities Medal winner Abraham Verghese. All before lunch. And tens of thousands of people around me were doing much the same thing: making the rounds at the famed Tucson Festival of Books, where I’d decided to spend a few hours on a trip to see my parents. As I began to realize the more people I met in line, many had come to town just for this.

Canyon Ranch is one of the world’s greatest spas – and as a luxury and wellness writer, I have had the privilege of visiting – and reporting on – this award-winning destination for the past 25 years. And I never tire of it. Every time I go, it is a new thrill – whether it’s a new class that I take, or a spiritual seminar that fortifies me, or, in Lenox, the absolutely wonderful lectures on miracles, gratitude and positivity that have been given there for more than 30 years by a fabulous speaker named Jerry Posner. I always leave refreshed and renewed and strengthened in this journey that we call life. (Oh yes, and I always get the dreaded bodyfat-assessment test that keeps me motivated.)

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