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How safe is that airline?
We don’t think much about airline safety in this country. It’s been more than a year and 11 million flights since the last fatal accident involving a major U.S. airline. But in other parts of the world airline safety isn’t always a given. (USA Today)
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Is cruising right for you?
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NTSB: FAA slow to respond to smoke incidents
The Federal Aviation Administration has yet to implement recommendations stemming from several instances in which smoke was reported in the cockpit of a Boeing 757 aircraft, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday. (AP)
The greenback is losing global appeal
The continued slide of the dollar against other currencies is creating new problems for American travelers abroad. (The New York Times) (Registration required.)
Bomb scare becomes First Amendment issue
A computer science student who unwittingly created an airport bomb scare by wearing a blinking circuit board attached to her shirt had a First Amendment right to express herself in that manner, her lawyer argued Friday. (AP)
Connecting passengers at Heathrow to face biometric scan
Heathrow Airport introduced a new security system for some of its passengers Friday, requiring them to undergo iris scans and be fingerprinted before boarding their flights. (AP)
New Beatles-themed Hard Days Night hotel
Visitors to Liverpool, England, birthplace of the Beatles, can rest their heads in the Lennon or McCartney suites at the Fab Four-themed Hard Days Night Hotel that opened Friday. (AP)
Today’s Travel Blogs
Mystified by mergers
What is it that I just don’t seem to understand about airline mergers? From my point of view and from all of my experience over the past decades there has never been an airline merger that seems to have gone well. Yet, here we are in the midst of frenzied merger mania in the airline industry. (Tripso Traveler)
How much money have the candidates spent on hotels?
Are the presidential candidates spending your campaign donations wisely? When it comes to their hotel bills, the answer is “no” according to a nifty new site from Holiday Inn Express. (Elliott.org)
A nifty site for finding the perfect (wacky) hotel
Sometimes it’s really about the destination, and not the journey. I’ve just come across a great site, UnusualHotelsoftheWorld.com, which is exactly about what its Internet address describes. It claims to be the most comprehensive listing of unusual hotels in the world, and on top of that, they also publish a 224-page book, titled, that’s right, “Unusual Hotels of the World.” (Gadling)
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