| Continental Airlines resumes Sendai, Japan flights and Man allowed to fly wearing women's underwear |
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CHICAGO — Continental Airlines said Wednesday that it will resume twice-weekly flights between Guam and Sendai, Japan, on Oct. 2. Sendai's airport was closed after the March 11 earthquake that struck Japan. The airport reopened April 13.The summer travel season is barely underway and already we have a suitcase-full of stories about passengers behaving badly.The Continental flights mark the first resumption of regular service by a foreign airline at Sendai Airport since its reopening.Continental is a subsidiary of United Continental Holdings Inc., which began offering Guam-Sendai flights 21 years ago.United Continental has worked with the American Red Cross to gather monetary contributions and donations of frequent flyer miles to help those affected by the earthquake. The company said cash donations from more than 23,000 customers and employees exceed $2.5 million, and loyalty program members have donated more than 63 million miles. [Read the full article] The summer travel season is barely underway and already we have a suitcase-full of stories about passengers behaving badly.Some 63,000 U.S. citizens visited Cuba in 2010, up from 52,500 the previous year and 41,900 in 2008, according to a report by the National Statistics Office.U.S. citizens are forbidden from traveling to Cuba without their government's permission under a wide-ranging trade embargo against the island imposed nearly five decades ago.In the years following Cuba's 1959 revolution the highest known number of U.S. visitors peaked at 70,000 under U.S. President Bill Clinton, then dropped to an average of 30,000 in the last term of U.S. President George W. Bush.The 2010 numbers do not include 350,000 Cuban Americans estimated by travel providers and U.S. diplomats to have come to the island last year. [Read the full article] NEW YORK — Some family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks expressed outrage on Wednesday at a potential admission fee to a National Memorial Museum currently under construction at the former site of the World Trade Center towers.Last week, president and chief executive of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum Joe Daniels told New York City council members about the possible $20 or $25 fee. He said the museum must generate enough income to operate, which memorial officials say could require between $50 million and $60 million a year. The memorial portion will be free to enter."This is not the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It's supposed to be a memorial," said former New York City Fire Department deputy chief Jim Riches, whose son, also a firefighter, was killed in the attacks. "I think it's very crude.""This was not supposed to be a money-making thing. Most people will be coming to pay their respects to the people murdered that day," he added. [Read the full article] 
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