Airlines after a $400-million tax feast, drop airfares

The airlines, after enjoying two-weeks of collecting what should have been tax revenues, have dropped airfares as the FAA began taxing flights again. To passengers, who may not have been paying attention, it looks like airfares stayed level over the past month....

Airlines after a $400-million tax feast, drop airfares

The airlines, after enjoying two-weeks of collecting what should have been tax revenues, have dropped airfares as the FAA began taxing flights again. To passengers, who may not have been paying attention, it looks like airfares stayed level over the past month....

A tale of two Venices

[Updated from a previous 2007 post — not much has changed.] I’ve been in Venice for about four days now, enough to feel like an entitled local. Already, I have begun to define “my Venice” from “tourist Venice.” That is, the beautiful,...