Keith Lotman went to New Delhi on a two-week business trip. But a quick day of sightseeing in India's capital city left him enthralled and ready to see more of the country.
The red ink is mounting for airlines amid soaring fuel costs, leaving them little choice but to further hike ticket prices. As Delta Air Lines and American Airlines reported big second-quarter losses Wednesday, they signaled customers should expect more hits to their checkbooks.
Those vexatious new fees on the airlines (fees for an aisle or window seat, fees for soft drinks, fees for luggage checked aboard, fees for talking to a telephone reservationist) remind me of what Mark Twain said about the weather: Everyone talks about it, but no one does anything.
Summer has just begun and I am already tired of hearing about some vacation destinations. But not so tired that we won't run stories about these places ourselves. Sometimes the beaten path is the beaten path for a reason.
AIR TRAVEL
''So. Turns out, I'm the security threat,'' I told my editor, calling him from my airline seat. The police with their assault rifles had left, along with the cop who moments before had shoved me against a jetway wall.
By 7:15 the first morning at sea, the gleaming chrome and glass Ship Shape Fitness Center on Voyager of the Seas was alive with passengers. They had all 20 treadmills going strong, the 13 elliptical machines in motion and most of the bikes spinning.
American Airlines is eliminating 79 jobs at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and cutting a third of its flights, as it attempts to deal with sky-high fuel costs.
Move over, Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best.
