Travel Insurance Direct and its customers have helped drive a record level of donations to online charity program the Footprints Network, allowing an expansion of projects to ease poverty around the...

While younger people are more interested in travelling abroad on their vacations, most respondents to a new survey said spending time at the cottage or just relaxing at home was their ideal way to...

Online Casino , met up in London where they all boarded the Queen Mary II Cunard Cruise Liner. This week-long trip will see players getting the chance to meet and mingle with fellow casino...

DAI GREENE and Rhys Williams are in pole position to deliver the first Welsh gold at the European Athletics Championships in eight years. Both won their 400m hurdles semi-finals with ease last night...

A dead whale, believed to be a juvenile humpback, is pictured pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises liner near Juneau, in this National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration photograph taken on...

The Supreme Court today declined to stay the Bombay High Court order that directed Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines to co-operate with the fair trade regulator CCI. A bench headed by Chief...

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Heavy fog on Friday continues to hover over parts of Sydney and Brisbane in Australia, causing disruptions to airports and ferries. Two Sydney-bound international flights were diverted to Melbourne...

It has been revealed the suspended MP travelled to China earlier this month without his party's knowledge. Mr Goff says he does not know what Mr Carter was doing in Tibet, but he was not on party...

WASHINGTON -- Posing as someone else and using fake birth certificates and driver's licenses to get a U.S. passport can still work. For the second time in two years, government investigators exposed...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. -- Chelsea Clinton's wedding along the Hudson River will be under a no-fly zone. The Federal Aviation Administration says local airspace will be restricted from 3 p.m. Saturday to...

A dead adult female humpback whale is pictured pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises liner. (Reuters) ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A dead whale was discovered pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises...

FATIMA, Portugal - A few dozen people attend midday Mass. A handful of others light candles. A woman makes her way down a long, narrow path on her knees.The expansive esplanade bounded by two massive...

Meeting deadlines during a month-long trip to Ecuador was supposed to be a breeze. But a local energy-saving strategy of scheduled power outages caught us by surprise and short-circuited our workday....

DAI GREENE and Rhys Williams are in pole position to deliver the first Welsh gold at the European Athletics Championships in eight years. Both won their 400m hurdles semi-finals with ease last night...

Hilton has opened the first five-star airport hotel in China, at Beijing International Airport. The luxury hotel, which is close to the airport's newest terminal three building, will cater to the...

PARIS -- When travel takes off, something in the world is stirring and the latest airline data together with signals from factories across Europe suggest that the economic machine is getting back in...

DALLAS -- American Airlines has agreed to pay US$5 million and provide evidence against other airlines to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by freight shippers who were victims of a price-fixing...

BEIJING -- Foreign airlines can expect to receive more flight slots in the future at the busiest airport in the Chinese capital, as a result of government efforts to increase transparency and build...

Following its recent merger with China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines will terminate its membership with Star Alliance by the end of October. Passengers will still have access to the Star...

A dead whale, believed to be a juvenile humpback, is pictured pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises liner near Juneau, in this National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration photograph taken on...

Princess Cruises said the dead whale became stuck at the bow of the Sapphire Princess, and the vessel was stopped south of Douglas Island until the carcass was removed yesterday afternoon (local...

By Yereth Rosen Anchorage - A dead whale has been discovered pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises luxury liner near Juneau, the third such incident for the company's Alaska fleet in a decade,...

hotels in the city has been stalled indefinitely. "I would say 100 percent it's because we're in the worst economic times since the Great Depression," Des Plaines Ald. Mark Walsten said. "That...

will launch a 28-day Hawaii, Tahiti & South Pacific cruise aboard Sapphire Princess next year. The month-long excursion is in addition to the California-based company’s 43 sailings of 10...

Marriott International has launched a new "voluntourism" package in its New Orleans hotels for travelers who want to make a difference when they travel. Tapping one of the fastest-growing tourism...

Honda has been showing off its first ever aircraft at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, saying that the jet should fly by the end of the year. The HondaJet is the first venture into aviation for Honda, more...

The Austrian Airlines has posted an operating loss of 6.7 million euros (about 8.71 million U.S. dollar) for the first six months of 2010, about 28.3 percent less than during the same period of the...

Travelers looking for a bargain at sea should consider repositioning cruises. Each fall and spring, cruise lines move their fleets to ports in warmer climates so that their ships will be ready to...

reported second-quarter earnings that flew to 44 cents per share, from 38 cents last year, topping analysts' forecast of 42 cents. On an adjusted basis net income soared 14% to $129.3 million, from...

Loews Hotels had considered establishing a shared services center employing 187 people in Louisville, but the company has decided not to go through with the project despite an offer of up $3 million...

Public transport is free across Melbourne today. The State Government is waiving fares, to make up for the inconvenience of this week's rail meltdown. On Tuesday, a power outage at two city...

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Airlines may have been pounded financially for the past decade, but changes to their business models over the past couple of years helped make the second quarter one of the best earnings seasons in...

Scuba diving is now one of the most popular holiday activities in the world, with millions of people qualified to drift weightlessly beneath the waves and experience the delights of the marine...

Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 1:56 p.m. Southwest Airlines Co. serves 69 airports in the United States, but CEO Gary C. Kelly says there's still room to grow before looking at international flights. ...

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