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Several airlines that serve high-profile surfing destinations such as South Africa and Australia are poised to gain BA's lost customers - and none is ready to follow suit with BA by banning surfboards. BA's reversal is particularly drastic: going from allowing these items for free to...
Some people amuse themselves with books and magazines, in-flight movies or a few hours of shut-eye, while making the transcontinental trip from San Francisco to Boston. Crammed into my coach-class seat I'm entertaining myself as only a true data geek can - by perusing a massive spreadsheet...
If radio-frequency identification tags could be implanted in people to keep track of their location, they should certainly be embedded in baggage [Oct. 29]. They would make lost luggage easy to find, and travelers and airlines could save a lot of money and aggravation.
Which, as he knows, doesn't mean people can't dream. Born in a small village - "we were not even having a bus" - Gupta got the idea for his enterprise more than 20 years ago, when neighbors begged him for guided tours soon after he landed his job at Indian...
The arrival of low-cost airlines in India has made out-of-the-way locations much more accessible to foreign travelers, and the Internet has provided greater visibility without the hefty marketing budgets of the large hotel groups. They're not for everyone: "The sophisticated spoiled rich traveler may be...