WESTJET SETS NEW SINGLE DAY RECORD

WestJet announced that it expected to fly 74,247 guests across its network on Sunday, setting a new single-day record. The airline's previous single-day record was 72,240 guests, set on July 31, 2015, the civic holiday long weekend.

President Barack Obama appears frustrated with Congress for not passing laws to tighten gun controls in the US. Critics say Congress is in the pocket of the National Rifle Association, the most powerful gun rights lobby group in the country.

Turkish Airlines announced on January 3 it had cancelled a total of 529 flights due to heavy snowfall in Istanbul over the previous three days. The carrier said it transferred some 9,700 passengers to hotels and offered food for some 28,900 passengers.

Airlines repeatedly tell passengers to wear their seatbelts throughout the flight. They reiterate that quite clearly when expecting turbulence. Yet, for reasons of their own, flyers frequently ignore the warnings and leave themselves unbelted and at risk. Unforgivably, they also do not ensure their children buckle up.

The federal public safety minister says he'll investigate the case of a six-year-old Ontario boy whose name appears to be on a travel security risk list.

Winter weather that spun off a series of deadly storms in the Midwest brought the season's first big punch to the Northeast on Tuesday, with snow, sleet and freezing rain greasing roads, sending drivers spinning and keeping people indoors amid sub-freezing temperatures.

If you’ve seen "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" you’ll recognize the locations to which I refer, if you haven’t – no worry and no spoiler alert necessary – this is only about locations and potential tourism hotspots – not plot or characters.

There has been a fair amount of recent press about the banning of lithium batteries on board aircraft. However, when tough guy Russell Crowe arrived at Sydney Airport in Australia, he was incensed that Virgin Australia refused to carry his sons' hoverboards and has vowed never again to fly with the airline.

When Delta overbooks a flight, they let their passengers decide how much getting bumped is worth. I discovered this last week when I checked in online for my flight from Minneapolis to Philadelphia. What was the minimum I was willing to accept in travel vouchers to take a later flight — $500, $300, $200, less?

Agatha Christie didn't much care for Montreal's weather when she visited in 1922, saving kinder words for British Columbia's beautiful Sequoia trees. But despite her less-than-glowing endorsement, Montreal's Pointe-a-Calliere museum is paying homage to the so-called “Queen of Crime” with an exhibit that is as much about the English novelist's life as her best-selling whodunits.

President Raul Castro has warned Cubans to prepare for tough economic conditions in 2016 despite warmer relations with the United States. Castro said that while tourism is booming, low oil prices have damaged the outlook of an economy that depends on billions of dollars of subsidized oil and cash from Venezuela.

In the age of technology, booking trips online is an easy choice for travellers. And yet the business of travel agents in the United States soared last year—ASTA reported that more of half of all agents saw an increase in clients, transactions, and revenue in 2014 over 2013, and their profits are expected to grow 12 percent in 2015 Here are 10 reasons that help explain why that is, from a customer’s perspective.