Singapore Airlines Ending World’s Longest Flight

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According to the AP’s Scott Mayerowitz, Singapore Airlines is ending their nonstop flights from the U.S. (LAX & EWR) to Singapore. They have been the world’s longest nonstop flights. The Singapore to Newark route had a distance of 9,520 miles and flight time took 18 hours and 20 minutes. The Los Angeles to Singapore route [...]

Video of the Week: Now You Can Park Your Car in the Living Room

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Do you love your car so much you wish you could park it in your living room? Don’t laugh – I know plenty of people who wish they could. A building in Singapore has made it a reality – could it be the future? Check out this video of the owner of a Lamborghini Aventador [...]

Travel News: Week of July 30th, 2012

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Top Travel News Delta Air Lines to shut down Comair regional unit Global airlines gross $22.6 billion in ancillary revenues Airport customs agent pleads guilty to groping women Singapore Airlines to move A380 out of JFK for winter, switch to SFO-HKG-SIN Skydiver jumps from 96,000 feet An 11-year-old who flew from Manchester to Rome without [...]

Singapore Airlines 11-Day Fare Sale to Europe and Beyond

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Singapore Airlines is celebrating their 20 years of service on the New York-Singapore route with a decent fare sale. Flights from New York to Frankfurt, Singapore and five Southeast Asian destinations start at $799. They are all aboard the A380, the world’s largest and most spacious commercial aircraft. Fares include round-trip, Economy Class travel, as well [...]

Travel Contests: Week of June 18th, 2012

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This week’s featured travel contests: Featured: Featured: Win a trip for two to South America Win a Trip to Thailand American Airlines Half-A-Million Mile Sweepstakes Spa Finder’s win a trip to Miami Win a Pair of Business Class Tickets to Any Singapore Airlines Destination Win a trip for 2 to Australia and New Zealand Win [...]

Singapore’s Hawker Centers

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One of my favorite things about Singapore is its incredibly good food and how cheaply you can get it. Singaporean cuisine is a combination of Chinese, Indian and Malay and the best place to get it is at one of the city’s famous Hawker Centers. Most of these 90 centers were built in the mid-‘80s [...]

Lo Hei or Yu Sheng

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Speaking of Chinese New Year, almost everyone in the city goes to a Chinese restaurant to get Lo hei or Yu sheng for lunch. It’s a uniquely Singaporean dish which has shredded carrots, salmon, jellyfish, ginger and some other ingredients I didn’t catch. But everyone around the table stands up and tosses it together as [...]

Singapore’s Candlenut Kitchen

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The first night of my Singapore trip our hosts took us for dinner at a restaurant called Candlenut Kitchen that was located in a budget hotel in a residential area. I thought it was weird until I got the back story, met the chef and saw that all the patrons were locals not tourists. Self-trained [...]