Travel

Air New Zealand has lowered fares to Auckland, New Zealand for travel October 16 to Nov 10, 2010. Fares from Los Angeles are $782 round-trip including tax and fuel surcharge (or "all in" as the fare geeks like to say). This sale ends midnight PST August 26. For $100 more, you can fly onward to Wellington, Christ Churt or Queenstown, and you can do a free stopover in Samoa, the Cook Islands, or Tonga at no additional charge. As of Wednesday 7.10 p.m. other airlines haven't matched, but they will. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Civil rights lawyers sued the government Tuesday to stop authorities from snooping in the laptops, cell phones and cameras of international travelers without probable cause. Full Story »

HELENA, Mont. - Federal transportation safety officials are using the deadly crash of an overloaded plane in Montana to revive a long-standing debate about whether small children should be allowed to travel on the laps of adults. Full Story »

BANGALORE (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice department is looking into Google Inc's takeover of airline ticketing software firm ITA Software Inc, to determine whether the deal would exert too much influence on the online travel industry, the Wall Street Journal said. Full Story »

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The state's growing list of aviation and aerospace companies added another name Wednesday, when Ohio-based GE Aviation announced plans to build a coatings plant for military jet engines within three months. Full Story »

FORT WORTH, Texas - American Airlines said Friday that its August traffic rose 3.1 percent from a year ago thanks to a healthy gain in international travel. Full Story »

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Thomas Jefferson's clothes and linens didn't get pressed on their own, and the meals for his lavish parties didn't cook themselves. Full Story »

NEW YORK - The new iPhone application mTrip is a travel guide and then some: It uses the latest in smart phone technology to make it easier to stay on track in a foreign locale. Full Story »

MARINA, Egypt - Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade. Full Story »