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To visit Finland — named the happiest country for many years in a row — my husband and I traveled by ferry.

While Southwest just announced changes to its seating program (gone are the days of seat free-for-alls), one thing that hasn’t changed is its beverage program. The jostle of the cart, the “what would you like?” and the “ice or no ice?” But while you wait for your drink, you might be interested to know that the service starts in certain rows, and those rows are well-known before a flight. So yes, you can get your drink first. 

This article is part of our airport food survival guide, which includes tips and tricks—even a hot take or two—that challenge the notion that airport meals are always dull, overpriced, and tasteless.

Attempting to sleep on a long-haul flight in economy is one of the most uncomfortable tasks in travel, right up there with handling seasickness on a cruise or managing a third-degree sunburn at the beach.

Beneath a row of fir trees River Shannon Aloia walks along a remote dirt road on national forest land, scanning the ground for morels.

Engineers at Delta Air Lines' product development arm think they've found a solution that could make air travel a safer, more seamless and more dignified experience for passengers who use wheelchairs for mobility. It involves a spot in the front row of the aircraft.

Air France is giving some of the smallest jets in its fleet a big makeover.

Lie-flat beds have historically been reserved for business and first-class travelers, but Chinese aircraft services provider Ameco has developed a new bed-equipped product called the "Fly-Buddy Hub."

Three Black men have accused American Airlines of “blatant race discrimination” over its temporary removal of them and five other men from a Jan. 5 flight from Phoenix to New York, in a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday.

A family was kicked off a flight for orchestrating an announcement over their daughter's peanut allergy, according to multiple reports.

It's not often you get your own apartment in the sky.

A Frontier Airlines passenger appeared to be escorted off a plane in handcuffs after a dispute over the exit row.

FOR MUCH OF Italy’s history, ravioli was a luxury reserved for banquet tables or feast days. All pasta was a rarefied food in the Middle Ages, but few forms captured the popular imagination as completely as stuffed pasta, considered the noblest of the species. In “The Decameron,” a 14th-century collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio about a group of young Florentines who abandon the city for the countryside during the plague, one of the characters, Maso del Saggio, describes an idyllic landscape to entertain the friends: “On a mountain, all of grated Parmesan cheese, dwell folk that do nought else but make macaroni and raviuoli.” Centuries later, every corner of Italy has its own version of filled pasta, which is broadly referred to as ravioli throughout the country. The “Encyclopedia of Pasta” (2009), the Italian food historian Oretta Zanini De Vita’s decades-long effort to catalog Italy’s most popular food, identifies more than 80 types of pasta ripiena (“stuffed pasta”), allowing for countless variations.

The sun-drenched sepia photograph shows a dapper European, handkerchief in pocket, cigarette in hand, sitting among a row of men dressed in bisht and keffiyeh. The moment was captured during Jacques Cartier's first visit to the Persian Gulf in 1911, on his way back to London from Delhi—part of a sales trip encouraged by his father, Alfred, then the head of Cartier. The decline of the Ottoman Empire and the 1905 Persian Constitutional Revolution had flooded Europe's artistic centers with new influences, forging an aesthetic then known as “the Muslim arts.” Eager to learn more, Jacques spent four months traveling throughout Asia and the Middle East, rifling through bazaars and emporiums and mixing with high society.

Rows of purple, fragrant flowers are a treat to see and smell. But when lavender is in full bloom, destinations around the world celebrate their flowers with everything from lavender-flavored ice cream to yoga sessions amid the fields.

It took the better part of a decade, but Lufthansa's new, cutting-edge cabins are finally here. Mostly.

Returning to the Quail Lodge in Carmel, California on Saturday, May 4th, The Quail Motorcycle Gathering celebrates its 14th year in a row. Designed for motorcycle enthusiasts, this family-friendly event is always much-anticipated in the automotive world and promises a packed schedule of showcases, activities, vendors and more.

Pedal your way to a Park Hyatt award redemption? It seems Hyatt is making that possible.

The homeland of William Shakespeare, Stratford upon Avon is a historic market town in the English countryside of Warwickshire, known for its meandering river, rowing boats, half-timbered Tudor architecture, and world-renowned stage, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

My overriding memories of crossing countries by train, on a trip from London to Albania, are of half-empty carriages and countryside sweeping past windows bathed in the soft orange glow of sunset. I remember cypress trees, red-roofed villages with square churches, farmland in neat strips and row upon row of vineyards.

Seven years after it was first announced, the wait is finally over.