TRANSPORTATION
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Florida has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to force the reopening of the state’s cruise industry. The lawsuit, filed April 8 in U... Read more -
MINNEAPOLIS — Delta Air Lines is unblocking its middle seats in May, marking the end of social distancing on all U.S. carriers and signaling a turning point in pandemic-era travel. The Atlanta-based... Read more
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The State of Alaska is pulling out all the stops in an effort to get cruise ships, and the people they bring, back to Alaska, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said April 9. The governor insisted in a lengthy... Read more -
The State of Alaska is pulling out all the stops in an effort to get cruise ships, and the people they bring, back to Alaska, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said April 9. The governor insisted in a lengthy... Read more
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The director of the maritime division at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said passengers could be boarding cruise ships in U.S. ports as soon as July. It all depends on how many... Read more
TOURISM & TRAVEL
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The Inland Empire 483 miles from the ocean wouldn’t qualify it as a “shore-side excursion” in the traditional sense but that’s exactly how Fairbanks is designated as thousands of cruise ship visitors make their way directly from the dock to the train or bus that takes them to Interior Alaska. -
Alaska has some of the highest hotel occupancy rates in the country on average in the short four-month period from May to September, enough to warrant yet four more hotels on the Anchorage landscape in addition to three that went up last summer.