Eco-friendly features are becoming almost commonplace in hotels these days. ANDREW BENDER looks at lodgings that take going green one step further, in this month’s edition of Singapore Airlines’ in-flight magazine, SilverKris. A hotel that melts away each spring, preferred parking for hybrid cars, and more…
“More Americans have passports now than ever before,” says Ken Chavez, Public Affairs Officer in the Office of Policy Coordination and Public Affairs at the US State Department. Over one-third of the population to be exact, or nearly 110 million out of 313 million Americans. That’s more than double the number of US passports in circulation in 2000 (48 million) and around 15 times 1989’s 7 million.
Read the rest of the story on my Seat 1A blog on Forbes.com.
Frankfurt-am-Main proves my first rule of long layovers: get out of the airport! Though it’s Germany’s international transit hub and consistently ranked one of Europe’s three busiest airports, I find FRA particularly user-unfriendly.
Fortunately, it’s easy to get out of the airport, and in under 15 minutes you really feel like you’re in Germany.
Read the rest of the post on my Forbes Seat 1A blog.
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