Hotel, Airline, Dining, Car and Tech Reviews
American, Delta, KLM, Lufthansa, Qatar, Swiss, United and Virgin (among others) face off in the skies
In the past year, I’ve flown in international business class seats on six airlines, namely, Air France, American Airlines, Continental (now United), KLM, Lufthansa, and Swiss (pictured). Out of the six, only two airlines offered truly lie-flat seating that was horizontal to the floor, Continental and Swiss.
The fully horizontal seat made a difference. My Swiss …
Munich Airport (Flughafen München), located roughly 30 km (18 miles) northeast of the city, is one of the most modern and efficient airports in Europe. Since it’s opening in 1992, it’s become the second busiest airport in Germany after Frankfurt and the seventh busiest in Europe. Terminal 2, which opened in 2003, is used by Lufthansa and members of the Star Alliance.
Helvetic Airways is a Swiss airline that operates six …
Set Clocks, Reset Your iPhone Alarm, and Double Check Your Appointments
This coming Sunday morning, while most people are asleep, most of the United States and parts of Canada will switch to Daylight Saving Time at 2 a.m. local time.
In the European Union, Summer Time (the U.K. calls it British Summer Time or BST; in Austria and Germany it’s Sommerzeit) will start two weeks later on March 25, leaving the U.S. …
International travel comes naturally to San Francisco-based Andreas Dharmawan, senior director of solutions and services for the development cloud solution company, Electric Cloud. Although he was reared in Jakarta, Indonesia, Dharmawan attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York for his B.A. in electrical and computer science engineering, and has also lived in Boston.
In his position, Dharmawan establishes and leads global technical sales teams and outsourcing operations in India, traveling …
In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry landed in Japan for the second time. His business trip culminated in the signing of the Convention of Kanagawa, a treaty between the U.S. and the Tokugawa shogunate.
The United States government issued paper money for the very first time in 1862. The currency was [rinted in $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, and $1000 denominations.
In 1876, the U.S. Patent Office granted Alexander Graham …
There are several cities around the world that I, for a variety of reasons, am drawn to. Munich is one, Vienna is another, and Philadelphia is yet another. In Philly, I typically spend time in meetings at the University of Pennsylvania, but, until recently, I had sworn off the hotels that were on or near Penn’s campus. Having learnt that the Inn at Penn had undergone a major renovation, I …
As our taxi turned onto Pennsylvania Avenue, it became clear to me that the Willard InterContinental was indeed at the center of Washington, D.C. What I didn’t realize, until I had stepped inside its carefully restored ornate lobby, was that the hotel was central to the capital’s social and political life as well.
Founded in 1818 and named after Henry Willard, who acquired the hotel in 1847, the Willard earned its …
Boeing’s Dreamliner is on tour. The aircraft making the rounds has the designation ZA003, the third Dreamliner to come off the assembly line. It was built with the intention of being used as a test aircraft and the FAA considers it to be an experimental aircraft. Its first flight was on March 10, 2010 and it is currently travelling the world as part of Boeing’s Dream Tour, which began in …
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