Munich, a city of broad avenues, Baroque architecture, and Bavarian accents, not to mention beer and BMWs, is one of the most visitor-friendly cities in Germany and its motto, “München mag dich,” which literally means “Munich likes you,” reflects its welcoming nature. Approximately 1.38 million people live in the Bavarian capital, which spans 120 square miles (311 square kilometers) and where the sun shines more often than any almost other …
Housed in two buildings, the modern and the palace wings, Istanbul’s most famous hostelry, the Ciragan Palace, Kempinski, fronts the Bosphorus’ lively waterfront, and offers glimpses of the Bosphorus Bridge, which connects to the Asian half of the city, in the distance. A celebrities wall attests, with photographs, to a stellar roster of the hotel’s guests, which includes luminaries such as the Prince of Spain, the King of Jordan, Hillary …
When redevelopment of what is now John F. Kennedy International Airport started in the 1950s, the goal was to what planners called Terminal City, a kind of village where different airlines would have their own unique buildings in a horseshoe-like arrangement. Indeed, JFK was to be unusual in having airline-designed and owned terminal buildings, some named by the airlines (Pan American World Airways’ Worldport and National Airlines’ Sundrome) and some …
In 1963, at the dawn of the Jet Age, New York City demolished the historic Pennsylvania Station, a move that launched preservationists into frenzied action. In the late 1950s, predating Penn Station’s demolition, efforts to redevelop Idlewild airport were made and led to the creation of a “terminal city” where individual airlines built terminals that heralded the age of air travel. One such structure was Pan American World Airways’ Worldport. …
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Big babies. We’re kicking off our second annual air travel pet peeves poll. What’s worse than having to tell the brats behind you to stop making a racket? The fact that they’re full grown adults.
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away. Apple updated its MacBook Air lineup with all-day battery life, and introduced iOS7, its newest …
For the frequent traveler, flying several times a month isn’t something out of the ordinary. As a frequent flyer, you inevitably accept some unavoidable annoyances about air travel. Of course, there are still things that are bound to irritate you in flight, and we want know what they are.
We once again teamed up with FlyerTalk, the world’s largest online travel community, to compile a comprehensive list of air travel pet …
In April we launched our “Where Are You in Japan” contest, where we asked you, our internationally savvy readers, to identify the locations of six photographed vistas throughout the region. The winner of the contest would be awarded a two-night stay at the luxurious Capitol Hotel Tokyu, in Tokyo Japan.
We’re happy to announce that the winner of the contest is Tom Moody of Miami, Florida. As an active real estate …
Edelweiss Air isn’t a well-known airline in the United States but perhaps it should be. In early April, Edelweiss, which is a small airline based in Switzerland and part of the Swiss family, took over the operation of one daily flight between Zürich and New York in order to provide vacation relief for Swiss crews that had accumulated a backlog of vacation time.
The Edelweiss crews currently operate flights between Zürich …
Manhattan’s Battery Park City is located on the southwestern edge of the island, literally across the street from Ground Zero and sits atop landfill derived in great part from the excavation for the World Trade Center. The mixed residential and institutional use neighborhood borders the waterfront with parks gracing its North and South boundaries. It is undoubtedly a part of the neighboring financial district, only with a much better view …
Icelandair operates from ten gateways in the U.S. and an even greater number of European destinations making Reykjavik Airport (or, in Icelandic, Reykjavíkurflugvöllur) an efficient transit hub and a long-standing carrier of travelers between North America and Europe. All of the aircraft in its fleet of Boeing 757s are equipped with spacious business class cabins that resemble domestic U.S. first class cabins.
Services, however, are more akin to those of international carriers, …
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