Other parts of the travel industry are helping, too Many corners of the travel industry are looking for a way to pitch in to help end the pandemic. More than a dozen U.S. airports now double as virus testing sites, including Chicago O’Hare and Chicago Midway, Los Angeles International, Tampa, Newark and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Inside…
Before the riots, United Airlines moved its crews from downtown Washington hotels and increased staffing at area airports. The airline has been and continues to be working with the Transportation Security Administration and law enforcement agencies, including the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. On Wednesday, American Airlines banned alcohol in first class for flights out of…
Liisa Linna, a partner at Liverte law office, who specializes in real estate, pointed to changes in the law enabling notaries to conduct virtual transactions. “Last spring, we had harsher restrictions, and the notaries almost immediately found a way, with some changes in the law, to conduct sales transactions through the internet,” Ms. Linna said.…
Even if you don’t have the latest and greatest smartphone, the tools for your photography can go beyond the more commonly used ones like the portrait and lowlight modes. With a reasonably up-to-date operating system, you can have voice-activated photo sessions, create wide-screen images, record video at different playback speeds and visually search the internet.…
Owners of a Mexican tile import company in Austin, Texas, Nick Barreiro and Canan Kaba have had to travel for business during the pandemic. But the opportunity to stay as the sole guests of the five-room Hotel Amparo in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, for $500 a night last summer satisfied two of the couple’s…
Taiwan on Monday released a new passport that puts a diplomatic spin on the concept of social distancing amid the pandemic. The self-governing island’s official name, Republic of China, has been downsized, though it remains on the cover in Chinese characters. The words “Taiwan Passport” appear in large bold type. The government said early in…
I was only a few days into a meandering trip across America, and already I was easing into something of a nighttime routine. Earlier in the day I’d pinpointed a promising campsite in Ozark National Forest. Now, I found myself ascending an isolated forestry road to get to it, my tires crackling over its rough,…
They are also the most versatile and unpredictable of the Panthera crew, at once stealthy and brash, antisocial and plugged in. “They have a bit of attitude to them,” said Alan M. Wilson of the Royal Veterinary College, who has studied leopard movement patterns and athletic performance. If you irritate leopards, he said, “they’ll come…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. On March 11, I flew home to New York after a quick vacation in Brussels, arriving at an eerily quiet Kennedy Airport where the fear of the spreading coronavirus felt tangible. We landed at 1:30…
Dear Tripped Up, I live in Massachusetts and had hoped to ski at Okemo Mountain Resort as much as possible this year. However, in November, Vermont announced a new set of cross-state travel guidelines, which include a mandatory quarantine that makes it all-but-impossible to visit regularly throughout the winter. Despite a blitz of preseason assurances…