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Social distancing doesn’t work on crowded planes

When Robyn Wilkov boarded a recent flight from New York to Dallas, she was surprised to find a masked passenger in the middle seat next to hers. “The plane was packed, with nearl...

DATE: Jun 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

U.S. citizens likely to be left out as Europe reopens borders

BRUSSELS – Americans are unlikely to be allowed into more than 30 European countries for business or tourism when the continent begins next week to open its borders to the world, because of ...

DATE: Jun 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Heading to these three states? Quarantine might be in the cards

New York, Connecticut and New Jersey asked Wednesday for travelers from states with high coronavirus infection rates to go into quarantine for 14 days in a bid to preserve hard-fought gains ...

DATE: Jun 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Theme parks hope the thrill is not gone

Carefree days giving way to virus safeguards

DATE: Jun 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Would-be vacationers approach summer travel cautiously

How bad is the fear of travel right now? So bad that even people in the travel industry are staying home. Annie Gofus, a Washington, D.C., travel agent who founded the site Wunder...

DATE: Jun 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

As business trickles back, hotels compete on cleanliness

Marriott, Hilton and other big hotel companies are used to competing on price or perks. Now they are competing on cleanliness. From masked clerks at the front desk to shuttered bu...

DATE: Jun 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Too sick to fly: Should airlines offer refunds to infectious passengers?

Can you be too sick to fly? In light of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s a question consumer advocates are raising with new urgency. They’re fighting for regulations that would require airline...

DATE: Jun 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Tourist rescued after being trapped 6 days in well in Bali

DENPASAR, Indonesia – A Ukrainian man who fell into an abandoned well and broke his leg while being chased by a wild dog on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali was rescued after being trapped...

DATE: Jun 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

French Quarter sans tourists: ‘An old neighborhood again’

NEW ORLEANS – For Jack Greenwood, New Orleans’ COVID-19 lockdowns brought sadness, but also a revelation: He was making more acquaintances with fellow residents – people he might not have no...

DATE: Jun 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

National parks hope visitors comply with virus measures

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A man pets a wild bison on the head. Rescuers pull a treasure-seeker from a snowy canyon. A woman taking photos stumbles into scalding water. Visitors to Yellowst...

DATE: May 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

What happens to your loyalty program after the pandemic?

Sheree Davis was one of hundreds of thousands of air travelers eager to know how loyalty programs would treat them after the pandemic. So she was excited when American Airlines r...

DATE: May 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Boeing slashes 12,000 jobs as virus seizes travel industry

Boeing is cutting more than 12,000 jobs through layoffs and buyouts as the coronavirus pandemic seizes the travel industry. And the aircraft maker says more cuts are coming. One o...

DATE: May 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

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