Month: January 2023

Where to travel in 2023: The best destinations to visit

January 3, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

(CNN) — New year equals new outlook. Apply this formula liberally to travel planning in 2023.

After nearly three years of travel disruptions and complications, many countries have dropped most of their pandemic restrictions. People are traveling internationally in large numbers, and there’s plenty of pent-up demand to spread around the world.

The Points Guy managing editor Clint Henderson says that now is the best time to book your dream vacation because he expects prices for flights to international destinations to go up dramatically due to a spike in demand as more countries ease Covid restrictions.

International tourism was expected

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Lost luggage still clogs some Canadian airports after chaotic holiday travel week

January 3, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

Eight days after Toronto aviation engineer Parham Zabeti was supposed to fly to a family reunion, he is still in Toronto and still looking for the bag he checked.

The 40-year-old paid $517 for an Air Canada ticket to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he planned to visit his brother and then drive to Florida to join his mother and other relatives. He arrived at Pearson International Airport on Dec. 22 with plenty of time to spare before his flight. The plane took off after a bit of a delay, but was turned back due to a blizzard.

The seemingly straightforward journey

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State Officials Warned Buttigieg About Airline Mess

January 3, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

Southwest Airlines stranding thousands of Americans during the holiday season is not some unexpected crisis nor the normal consequence of inclement weather — and federal officials are not powerless bystanders. Before the debacle, attorneys general from both parties were sounding alarms about regulators’ lax oversight of the airline industry, imploring them and congressional lawmakers to crack down.

The warnings came just before Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared on national television insisting travel would improve by the holidays, and before Southwest executives — flush with cash from a government bailout — announced new dividend payouts to shareholders, while paying themselves millions

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Family’s Disney World Vacation Turns Deadly

January 2, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

A visit to Walt Disney World Resort can be a magical family vacation for most, but this trip for one family turned deadly in this instance.

Flagler County Sherriff's Office — Credit: Flagler County Sherriff’s Office

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Trips to any of the Disney Parks should be a time for family and friends to get together and escape from the daily realities of life. Unfortunately for one family, the trip on the way home from “the most magical place on earth” had made a turn for the worse.

On his way home from a vacation to Walt

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The Best Dining Experiences Our Editors Had in 2022

January 2, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

As travel editors, we are fortunate to not only travel the globe and call it work, but to also snag reservations at some of the best restaurants in the world—both well known and under-the-radar. We each have an interest in, and a nose for, sniffing out great places during our travels. After all, it comes with the territory.

After discussing our favorite meals of the year in a very animated meeting, our team agreed it would be a shame to withhold these gems from our readers. That’s why this year, our editors (always keen, and sometimes hard-to-impress) decided to share

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Ex-Russian commander dies ‘suddenly’, Vladimir Putin’s strange response: Report | World News

January 2, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

A former commander of Russian forces with close ties to Ukraine died “suddenly” the day after Vladimir Putin abruptly cancelled a trip to the tank enterprise where he worked, a report said. General Alexei Maslov, 69, passed away in a Moscow military hospital, The Mirror reported.

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General Alexei Maslov’s death comes after Alexander Buzakov, 65, general director of Admiralty Shipyards’ sudden demise in St Petersburg. Alexander Buzakov had been healthy the day before he died, and “nothing had been heard about Maslov’s health problems”, the report

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