Travel

Delta ranked the best airline from April 2020 to March 2021. These other airlines weren't far behind.

Only 310 hosts across the country have achieved 100% 5-star ratings.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a letter to Airbnb, Vrbo and other vacation rental platforms asking them to require hosts to "lock outer access doors or otherwise disable the elevators in their properties."

Larry Page, the secretive co-founder of Google, has reportedly spent much of the pandemic hiding out on tropical islands in Fiji, entering the country through a system designed to allow the ultra-wealthy to circumvent COVID-19 travel restrictions.

American Airlines plans to hire on more than 1,300 by the end of 2022 as the airline sees an increased demand for travel following the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Southwest Airlines cleared financial turbulence as it emerges from the pandemic turning its first profit without federal assistance.

The Biden administration announced Wednesday it was extending the ban on nonessential travel, such as tourism, at the land borders with Canada and Mexico for another month, prolonging the economic turmoil U.S. border businesses have faced since the pandemic began over a year ago.

Adobe Digital Insights lead analyst Vivek Pandya called the spike in U.S. spending on domestic flights a "notable" increase, seeing as how ticket prices continue to grow as more travelers eagerly hit the skies.

Rising concern about the fast-spreading delta variant of COVID-19 is creating turbulence for the stocks of big travel companies, but airline executives say they don’t see any slowdown in ticket sales, maybe because a high percentage of their best customers are fully vaccinated.

The heavily battered industry has improved since January due to an increasing number of Americans getting vaccinated and gaining confidence in travel once again.

Overall, restaurant and food businesses, as well as retail businesses, experienced the highest number of reopenings over the three-month span with 22,441 and 13,700 locations reopening, respectively.

Lawmakers across the political aisle have called on the Biden administration to address a backlog of passport applications that's threatened to upend millions of Americans' summer travel plans.