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Tools, tricks to help you sleep on your next flight

The rumble of a jet engine is a comforting sound to some air travelers, making it easy to sleep on virtually any flight. For others, just the thought of being trapped in a pressurized alumin...

DATE: Apr 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

14 ways to survive 14 hours in coach

Let me start by saying one thing: If I can do this, you can, too. When I lived in China and traveled home three times a year, making a 14-hour trek from Beijing to the District of...

DATE: Apr 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

3 airliners in near-misses with drones at London’s Heathrow

LONDON – Three planes narrowly missed colliding with drones near London’s Heathrow Airport in the space of three weeks last year, underscoring increasing concerns about the devices being use...

DATE: Mar 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Expeditions to send huge trash bags to help clean Mount Everest

KATHMANDU, Nepal â€“ Mountaineering expedition organizers in Nepal are sending huge trash bags with climbers on Mount Everest during the spring climbing season to collect trash that then can...

DATE: Mar 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

International travelers cite politics as factor in U.S. trips

NEW YORK – Some international travelers are citing politics as a factor in whether to visit the U.S. this year, according to survey research by the tourism marketing agency Brand USA. ...

DATE: Mar 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

A round-trip flight just for the view – the Southern Lights

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – They took an eight-hour flight just to look out the airplane’s window, but it was an extraordinary view. A charter plane that left Dunedin, New Zealand, ...

DATE: Mar 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

How to tip the airline scales in your favor

Airport luggage scales lie. It’s not an uncommon allegation. And sometimes, it’s actually true. Ticket counter weights in Phoenix, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Seattle have been f...

DATE: Mar 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Professor calculates ultimate U.S. history tour

Here’s the shortest route to 49,603 historic sites

DATE: Mar 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

A return to Moscow: Reporter finds the familiar in a changed city

MOSCOW Leonid Brezhnev had a taste for fast, flashy Western cars. So perhaps it’s fitting that Lamborghini, Porsche and Rolls-Royce dealerships have opened near the Moscow apartme...

DATE: Mar 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Travelers sigh as latest attack puts London on terror list

NEW YORK – Turkey. France. Belgium. Now London. As yet another destination is hit by terror, travelers are sighing with dismay and thinking carefully about personal safety, even while saying...

DATE: Mar 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

$75 million pledged to protect heritage sites in war zones

PARIS – World donors pledged more than $75 million Monday to an historic UNESCO-backed alliance to protect cultural heritage sites threatened by war and the wave of ideological-driven destru...

DATE: Mar 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

For some airline passengers, new warnings bring new hurdles

NEW YORK – As far as the indignities of modern air travel go, the latest ban on laptops and tablets on some international flights falls somewhere between taking off shoes at the security che...

DATE: Mar 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel