Travel

Nearly half of the states have measures in place for visitors, from mandatory testing to quarantine requirements. [...]

The work the artist made near the end of his life changed my understanding of both beauty and suffering. [...]

Wandering through corn mazes, picking pumpkins and visits to wineries and haunted houses are still on the calendar, but social distancing and face masks are part of the plan. [...]

To fly today, most flights require 100 percent of passengers (except kids under 2) to wear face coverings. This requirement is being enforced: Major airlines have reportedly banned more than 700 customers, permanently, for not wearing masks. Issues of “personal freedom” aside, are the airlines being overly cautious or is [...]

In route news, San Francisco International gets quieter; Southwest extends its open middle seat policy through Thanksgiving; American’s website adds a trip planning feature that details COVID-related restrictions on U.S. travelers to countries worldwide; New York now allows California residents to visit without subjecting them to a mandatory 14-day quarantine; [...]

Sarah Firshein tries to resolve how a nonstop with seat selection became a packed “split flight,” with concerns over proper cleaning and an arrival two hours later than expected. [...]

Australian airline Qantas has announced plans for a seven-hour scenic flight that will perform a giant loop taking in Queensland and the Gold Coast, New South Wales and the country's remote outback heartlands. CNN's Richard Quest reports. [...]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that six states — California, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada and Ohio — have been removed from  the state's COVID-19 travel advisory list. That means that residents of California arriving at airports in New York (as well as New Jersey and Connecticut) are no longer [...]

For Americans eager to resume international travel, here are the countries that currently allow U.S. citizens to enter, though there may be restrictions. [...]

Hawaii Gov. David Ige said Wednesday that starting Oct. 15, travelers arriving from out of state may bypass a 14-day quarantine requirement if they test negative for COVID-19. Travelers will have to take the test within 72 hours before their flight arrives in the islands. Ige said drug store operator CVS [...]

Neither a pandemic nor wildfires can keep Americans from traveling. With options for air travel limited, road trips are all the rage, especially to remote places where it's easy to remain in fresh air in the great outdoors. This includes national parks, many of which are hosting large numbers of [...]

Despite its exotic name, there's a very good reason you've never booked a vacation to the Quilombo of Palmeres. Same goes for the Islands of Refreshment, the Fiume Endeavour and Neutral Moresnet. [...]

In the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean, Maldives is made up of more than 1,000 islands, which tourists travel between on seaplanes. [...]

A large number of U.S. hotels temporarily closed their doors as bookings dried up last spring due to the coronavirus epidemic. And as fall approaches, it looks like a significant number of them might not be able to reopen as expected even if business starts to pick up to a [...]

The itinerant hotel developer Jayson Seidman purchased a crumbling, storied house — and had the good sense to leave it mostly alone. [...]

On Monday American Airlines announced that it will open its much anticipated new Admiral's Club in the Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport on October 6. SFO opened the first phase of the $2.4 billion Harvey Milk terminal in July 2019 with flights from only Southwest and JetBlue. [...]

Birds are the undisputed masters of aerodynamics. [...]

After living for nearly half a decade in the capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia, a photographer offers an intimate look at a city where the act of celebration is indelibly ingrained. [...]

In route news, JetBlue is adding more California routes, including one from San Francisco, one from Palm Springs and several from Los Angeles; United tweaks its new no-change-fees policy; United also announced some new international service including a route to India from SFO; American will push up the revival of [...]

If international air travel is ever going to open up again in the age of coronavirus, it’s becoming apparent that some kind of fast and efficient COVID-19 testing program will be required at airports. With the U.S. government’s decision to stop its current ineffective policy of checking international arrivals next [...]