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Virgin Voyages is the latest cruise line to announce it will reroute a ship around Africa instead of attempting to pass through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

Transoceanic voyages may be among the most romanticized cruise itineraries. With their vast scope and leisurely pace, gliding across gaping seas, these epic sailings evoke the adventure and glamor of the “Golden Era of cruising" when star-studded transatlantic crossings were the epitome of luxury travel in the early 1900s.

A snowboarder reported missing at a ski resort in California on Thursday was stranded on a gondola overnight in the cold.

A major U.S. airline is poised to launch a new nonstop route from New York to Tokyo. American Airlines plans to soon fly from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Tokyo's Haneda Airport (HND).

The Sun Princess' delivery has been delayed and its inaugural 10-day voyage canceled. That cruise had been scheduled to depart Barcelona on Feb. 8 and conclude in Rome.

Kyoto is on the travel list of most first-time visitors to Japan for good reason. With its fleet of over 2000 temples, lush gardens and traditional tea houses, Kyoto is one of Japan’s major historical hubs – to say nothing of being easy on the eye (enjoy a sunset on the hill in Kiyomizu-dera to see what we mean).

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When we talk about traveling to upstate New York, with its fall foliage and shimmering lakes, the land above and beyond New York City is never called what it was known as for a thousand years—the homeland of the Haudenosaunee, ‘the people of the longhouse.’ The Haudenosaunee were a confederation of five (and later six) nations known to colonizers as “the Iroquois Confederacy"—the Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, and Tuscarora—who lost much of their land after the Revolutionary War.

Princess Cruises has announced the delayed delivery of Sun Princess and its inaugural 10-day voyage set to depart from Barcelona on February 8th.

On Tuesday, in a ceremony that, of course, involved a soccer ball, the Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi pressed a button and a bottle of champagne smashed against the bow of Icon of the Seas, christening the world’s largest cruise ship at its home port of Miami. Like an A-list celebrity stepping onto the red carpet, the arrival of Royal Caribbean’s 250,800-ton ship has captured the world’s attention, with some marveling over its cutting-edge features, like the largest water park at sea, while others criticize the gigantic ship’s potential to damage the environment.

The federal government is doubling down on high-speed rail with an announcement it is helping to raise $2.5 billion for Brightline West.

Holland America is taking inspiration from the 1920s again for its latest over-the-top Mediterranean cruise.

With Alaska travel on the rise, United Airlines is introducing a new route to Anchorage just in time for the summer season. 

There is much to be wary of when choosing private jet flight providers. Failures with both fractional operators, such as Jet It and jet card providers, such as JetSuite, cost customers tens of millions of dollars in cumulative losses. In both cases, it was likely a stew of growth plans that were too ambitious, flaws in their business models, external issues with their suppliers, and just bad timing. More recently, in the case of AeroVanti, there are lawsuits, allegations of fraud, and their CEO has been indicted by the Department of Justice for actions in unrelated companies. In these instances, the buyers were generally UHNWs who shelled out six figures or more to fly privately. By the same token, it’s easy to lose smaller amounts money, perhaps not inconsequential to your bank account. They are usually cloaked in promises of cheap private jet flights, often via empty legs.

Spirit Airlines, once a fast-growing low-cost carrier, is struggling to convince investors that it has a clear path forward after an antitrust ruling blocked the sale of the company to JetBlue Airways.

Depending on your perspective, American Airlines' latest move may be good or bad news.

A lucky traveler hit the jackpot at the airport in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Inside of the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas there are hundreds of slot machines where travelers can press their luck when departing or arriving on a flight into the famed gaming town.  The airport most recently announced a $1,031,200 winning play at one of the slot stations.  The jackpot took place on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, and was at the «Wild Wild Buffalo Penny Game.» The machine is located in Las Vegas Airport’s D Gates, which services Air Canada, American, Breeze, Condor, Delta, Flair Airlines, Frontier, Hawaiian Air, Sun Country Airlines, United, Lynx, and WestJet.  The traveler appeared to only make a $3 bet on the slot, according to a photograph shared.  The big win garnered excitement from people, such as one social media user commenting, “$3 bet? Oh holy Buffffffffaaaallllllooooo!!” In September, a woman from Texas won over $643,435 on a Wheel of Fortune themed slot machine inside of the Las Vegas Airport.  The Las Vegas Airport slot machines have become lucrative business, generating over $1 billion in all-time revenue, which can help lower the cost of airport maintenance, according to local outlet, the Las Vegas Sun. “When you land at Harry Reid International Airport you know you're in Las Vegas when you see and hear the sights and sounds of slot machines,” the airport shares about the slot machine experience.  The airport, which recently celebrated its 75th anniversary, has experienced a 9.4% traffic increase for most of 2023, with over 52 million passengers, according to statistics. For passengers looking to explore Las Vegas' airport, but not seeking to gamble, the airport recently opened several new shops including a Johnston & Murphy shoe store, and a Vera Bradley retail shop.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a much-anticipated merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, but experts say that’s good news for travelers.

Among the many aspects of travel that the pandemic disrupted, one issue was more bureaucratic — but no less frustrating — for some Americans: an enormous backlog of U.S. passport applications.

JetBlue's merger with Spirit Airlines was blocked by a federal judge on Tuesday, putting an end to a combination that would have seen JetBlue absorb Spirit and scrap the ultra-low-cost carrier's brand.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked JetBlue Airways’ proposed $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines, a victory for the Department of Justice, which argued that the deal would harm travelers.