This winter has been downhill for snow lovers
This winter has been downhill for snow lovers –
A higher-than-normal jet stream and a moderate El Niño, a cyclical warming trend in the Pacific Ocean, have left many winter tourism businesses out in the cold. (USA Today)
Cruise line to pay more than $1 million to widow of missing man — Royal Caribbean Cruises agreed Thursday to pay more than $1 million to the widow of a Connecticut man who vanished on their honeymoon cruise nearly two years ago. (New York Daily News)
Disputed runway cuts delays in first month — Logan International Airport’s newest runway — one that took a 30-year struggle to build — in its first month of operation reduced delays without sparking community uprisings. (The Boston Globe) (Registration required.)
Deep discounts sail in on Caribbean cruises — Cruise lines have slashed prices for 2007 voyages to rarely seen levels — as low as $399 a week for February sailings — in an aggressive effort to jump-start sagging sales as the busiest booking period of the year begins. (USA Today)
Another storm looms in frustrated West — More than a week after a blizzard blasted Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado, the strain was taking its toll on exhausted emergency officials and the meager resources of small rural communities. (AP)
Nevada casinos report $2.1 billion profit in 2006 — A new report shows Nevada’s major hotel-casinos posted their highest net income ever in fiscal 2006 — a combined $2.1 billion. The report released Thursday by the state Gaming Control Board also showed that the 274 resorts had $5.4 billion in earnings before taxes, interest, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA — the indicator that analysts watch most closely. (AP)
Travel chaos seen as sign of progress at Baghdad airport — At the chaotic Baghdad International Airport, hundreds of passengers are jammed up at the only security checkpoint. Western contractors carrying green duffel bags and Iraqi families with carts of luggage shout at unfazed security guards. To Kifah Hussein Jabbar, director of Iraqi Airways, it’s music to his ears. (USA Today)
New budget airline debuts in Malaysia –
Malaysian aviation tycoon Tony Fernandes on Friday launched a new long-haul budget airline named AirAsia X, which will start flying to destinations in China and Britain in July. (AP)
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