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Atlantic Coast tourism leaders worry about the coming hurricane season
DestinationsWhen Scott McQuade thinks about the Jersey Shore these days, he envisions something he hopes he never sees here. To the director of the Golden Isles Convention and Visitors Bureau, the images are haunting — oceanside attractions like roller coasters and homes yanked from their foundations and tossed into an angry sea like children’s toys; [...]
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Add bumpier flights to the list of effects climate change will have on travel
TransportA new paper in the journal Nature Climate Change argues that thanks to projected changes in the jet stream, one form of air turbulence will likely increase in intensity by between ten and 40 percent in the North Atlantic by 2050, making for more white knuckle transatlantic flights and increasing costs to airlines, damage to [...]
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Last-minute booking surge as millions of Brits flee bad weather over Easter
DestinationsThe grim weather at home is sending millions of Britons abroad in search of guaranteed sunshine over the Easter break, according to travel agents and holiday firms who have reported a surge in last-minute bookings and the strongest demand for seasonal beach holidays in a decade. Despite the prospect of travel chaos on roads and [...]
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Canceled flights in good weather: Why it’s not a bad idea
TransportAs yet another winter storm rambled across the upper half of the United States this week, a time-honored tradition set in: hundreds of flight cancellations struck travelers in a coordinated wave just ahead of the storm’s leading edge. At the very least, it’s an inconvenience for the tens of thousands of people trying to get [...]
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5 ways flight delays are even worse for flight attendants than passengers
TransportThis past weekend flights across the northeast United States and eastern Canada were cancelled en masse as a winter storm descended on the region. For the tens of thousands of travelers stranded or delayed, it’s a lousy experience that seems to have no end. But we know it isn’t any better for the pilots and [...]
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What New York’s top tourist attractions looked like during Friday night’s blizzard
DestinationsThousands of flights were cancelled, Amtrak stopped services, and travel warnings were put into effect on Friday in preparation of the big storm of 2013. While other areas including Long Island and Boston got pummeled by snow, Manhattan walked away relatively unscathed. As many New Yorkers spent the night bunkered down in their apartments watching [...]
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Fliers at Heathrow can’t get to Boston today, but New York is okay
TransportFlights to Boston from London were disrupted for a second day after a storm dumped more than two feet of snow on the U.S. Northeast. IAG’s British Airways canceled two of its three flights to Boston today, a spokeswoman said, while Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. scrapped its London-to-Boston service for a second day. London’s Heathrow [...]
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New York and Boston show off empty streets and train tracks on Twitter
DestinationsAs the biggest blizzard of 2013 hit the Northeast last night, the transportation authorities of New York and Boston took to Twitter to share photos of empty streets and train tracks, as well as what the city was doing to help keep people safe. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority posted more than twenty photos and [...]
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Weaker results than expected for insurer with big Costa Concordia and Hurricane Sandy ties
TransportPayouts for the Costa Concordia disaster and Superstorm Sandy meant Catlin’s shares were one of the mid-cap index’s biggest losers. In its annual results on Friday, the insurer said the bill for the liner’s grounding was $16m (£10.2m) above previous estimates, while the storm that battered the US cost $25m more than had been thought. [...]
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The top 10 winter storms to hit the United States
DestinationsAs the East Coast of America prepares for what could be one of the largest blizzards on record, we take a look at ten of the biggest snowstorms to hit the U.S.: 10. The Cleveland Superbomb, Jan 25-27, 1978 Also known as the Great Blizzard of 1978, this affected large swathes of the US. One [...]
