Travel

Budget airlines often trade space and even basic amenities for crowded planes and cheaper tickets. With these four tips however, you can save some cash and even enjoy the trip. [...]

What type of Airbnb will $1,000+ buy you per night in San Francisco? We took a scan through the popular lodging site and found some beauties. Check out the top five most expensive private pads in the slideshow at the top of this post. [...]

On the year of the Madrid museum's bicentennial, our writer visits every gallery, vestibule and passageway to see if he had missed anything on his previous 200 visits. He had. [...]

In route news, Hawaiian Airlines bolsters its Bay Area schedule as Southwest enters the market; Spirit will launch two new California routes; Delta extends Vancouver service; United's first reconfigured 767-300ER starts flying; JetBlue debuts a South America route; Swiss plans a new cabin for long-haul flights; and Thomas Cook Airlines [...]

The hillsides are green, the flowers are blooming, and the rainy days are beginning to subside. Spring is here and California is calling. [...]

For a boy growing up in Oklahoma, a real-world passion became both an imagined universe and a taste of the wider universe. [...]

A record 81 U.S. flights were investigated in 2018 for carrying at least one person contagious with the disease, which has had a large number of outbreaks this year. [...]

Wearing gold-hoop earrings is the ultimate way to dupe people, the star of “Shrill” says. [...]

Villa Deevena, in Los Pargos, is a tropical take of the classic auberges of southern France. [...]

Just last year, the ancient neighborhood saw the opening of three high-end hotels. [...]

Automation has helped create one of the safest stretches in aviation history. But some pilots are worried they are relying too much on autopilot. [...]

Travelers on American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines flights will be rebooked — or scheduled on different planes — if they were to fly on the Boeing aircraft. [...]

Travelers on American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines flights will be rebooked — or scheduled on different planes — if they were to fly on the Boeing aircraft. [...]

Today, the FAA finally ordered all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft out of US airspace, following the lead of airlines and aviation authorities around the world. While a raft of flight cancellations is not going to be pretty, it's not going to be disastrous. I predict the US airline industry [...]

The easiest way to tell if you your 737 is a MAX jet by looking at the engines — if you see serrated, toothy rear edges, it's a MAX. Other versions of the 737 have round edges. You can also look at the wingtip — MAX jets have special "double" [...]

There was a flurry of incorrect media reports last week that Americans will soon have to apply for visas before traveling to Europe. In fact, visas will not be required, but a few minutes online and payment of a new fee will be, starting in 2021. We first noticed this [...]

A Honolulu plane bound for Oakland made a U-turn mid-flight Sunday, returning to Hawaii when a cockpit light suggested a potential problem in one of the two engines. [...]

New York will soon have "the edge" when it comes to magnificent outdoor observation decks. [...]

In airline route news, Delta will go year-round on a key route out of Oakland; Alaska adds a spoke to its Seattle hub and finally launches Paine Field service; Southwest's Hawaii flights begin in one week; United kicks off new domestic routes; Qatar is coy about its planned SFO [...]

Italy's Cinque Terre coastline has an almost mythic status among travelers -- who hasn't seen photographs of the pastel-colored houses built into rugged cliffs, surrounded by bright blue sea, and fallen instantly in love? [...]