Category: Travel
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Sneak Peek: Say Hola to Puebla’s Cartesiano Hotel
Move over San Miguel de Allende. Puebla is fast becoming Mexico’s colonial city du jour. Located just 85 miles southeast of Mexico City, the historic town framed by the Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl volcanoes first arrived on luxury scene earlier this year with the opening of Rosewood Puebla; now it’s becoming a full-fledged destination of choice with…
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The Embraer Phenom 300 Gets Upgraded to the 300E
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Embraer Executive Jets introduced the Phenom 300E, an enhanced (thus the E) version of the top-selling Phenom 300, a $9 million light business jet, at the National Business Aviation Association’s Aviation Conference and Exhibition this week in Las Vegas The Phenom 300 entered service in 2009 and has been the most delivered business jet each of the last four…
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Five Fancy Ideas for Spending Your Free Hilton Honors Surpass Nights
The Hilton Honors Surpass card’s sign-up bonus is once again at 100,000 points after $3,000 spent in 3 months. You know what that means? More opportunities to stay at super fancy hotels! Hilton has a vast portfolio of awesome hotels worldwide. Lucky for you, you don’t have to look through all of them because I’ve…
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One Aviation offering anti-skid brake retrofit on Eclipse 500s
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne Aviation is offering anti-skid brakes as a standalone retrofit on Eclipse 500 very light jets. The Advent Aerospace-designed system, known as eABS, can be installed on all models that have received an update of their IS&S integrated flight management system to the 2.08 standard. This represents around 100 of the 300 Eclipse aircraft that…
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Volocopter Completes Test Flight Over Dubai
Volocopter Completes Test Flight – Dubai officials say they want theirs to become the world’s smartest city. A project certain to help reach that goal is developing a fleet of autonomous vehicles to handle a quarter of all passenger transport by 2030. Ignoring critics who scoffed at the claim earlier this year that the German-designed…
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Airline: Could This Be Singapore’s New A380 Suites Class?
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s an airline product geek, the last quarter of this year is going to be so exciting. Just days apart we’ll possibly see the world’s two best new first class products unveiled. Specifically, on November 2 Singapore is unveiling their new A380 Suites Class, while just over a week later Emirates is unveiling their new…
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Americans Agree That the TSA and U.S. Airports Are Getting Better, Except in New York
The agency has resolved some of the deep staffing woes that plagued America’s airports in early 2016, and the reduced wait times have had the desired effect, according to the latest J.D. Power ratings released Thursday. Investments by airlines and airports to install self-tagging baggage and check-in kiosks have also boosted customer satisfaction, the report found.…