It was “a year of going through hell” for United Airlines. Delta Air Lines had “the toughest year” in its history. And for American Airlines it was “the most challenging year.” That’s how the executives who run those companies described 2020 in recent weeks. The airline industry is eager to move on, but it hasn’t…
Even during a normal year, Jacqueline Kim, a stay-at-home mother of two in Encinitas, Calif., is pretty bullish about making travel plans to national parks. She researches trails and sites, and logs on to the websites right when reservations open up. “Six months ahead, I book it, because I know exactly where I want to…
Three Historic Houses Outside Zurich $10.6 MILLION (9.5 MILLION SWISS FRANCS) This 17th-century viticultural farmstead, comprising three renovated timber-frame buildings with lake views, sits on two-thirds of an acre in the town of Wädenswil, about 15 miles south of Zurich, in north-central Switzerland. Listed as a protected historical monument, the winemaking estate — including a…
As Americans continue to weather the pandemic, the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and spending bill passed by the federal government in December brought an unexpected and lasting gift: a new national park. The 5,593-page spending package included a raft of provisions authorizing little-known projects — the construction of the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library in North…
For Zoe Waldron, 30, the polar vortex and gray sky made her nostalgic for La Conner, Wash., her hometown. But in San Antonio? “It feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event,” she said. Ms. Waldron’s boyfriend, Patrick Attwater, 34, drove to the couple’s house in Austin on Saturday to heat it to 65 degrees and to let…
While transactions fell sharply in 2020, not every sector languished. While Buenos Aires’s lockdown, from March through November, curtailed property tours, it also shifted buyers’ interest from the city to roomier homes in gated communities in the northern suburbs, said Herman Faigenbaum, managing director with Cushman & Wakefield in Argentina. “That market has exploded,” he…
Growing up in the frigid confines of Endwell, N.Y., I tried to escape the endless winters and year-round rain by visiting my local library, where I sought out photography books with images of warmer places. I remember being thrilled by a picture book that traced the Mississippi River from its source in Minnesota to the…
Four backcountry skiers were killed on Saturday in an avalanche in Utah, the police said. It was the deadliest avalanche in the United States since May 2014, when six climbers were killed on Mount Rainier in Washington, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. The avalanche on Saturday was set off about 11:40 a.m. local…
Nadine Toe Toe and her family run Kohutapu Lodge and Tribal Tours in Murupara, a northeastern village of about 2,000 people, of whom about 90 percent are Maori. Before the pandemic, about 98 percent of the company’s customers came from overseas. Updated Feb. 5, 2021, 12:52 p.m. ET “We wanted to create a really truthful,…
Market Overview St. Croix, with about 50,000 residents, is the largest of the three main U.S. Virgin Islands, followed by St. Thomas and St. John. In addition to its many white-sand beaches, it is known for its diving sites, including the Buck Island Reef National Monument, one of three underwater national monuments in the U.S.…