10 travel stories from the last 24 hours — here’s what’s moving:
Four Thousand Athletes Are Sleeping on a Cruise Ship
Costa Serena docked at Kinjo Pier in Nagoya to house around 4,000 Asian Games athletes and officials, because the Games built no athletes’ village.
Nobody Has Seen an Atlantic Season This Quiet Since 1966
As of mid-September the 2026 Atlantic season has produced no hurricanes at all, the longest such stretch since satellite tracking began.
The World’s Twenty Best Airlines Include No American One
Singapore Airlines took the top spot at the 2026 Skytrax World Airline Awards, announced in London on 18 September, and no US carrier made the top 20.
Russia Just Placed the Biggest Aircraft Order in Its History
Aeroflot Group signed in Moscow on 18 September for 90 Yakovlev MC-21-310s, the largest contract in Russian civil aviation.
Nine Aircraft Are Leaving Because of the Price of Fuel
Corendon will fly 21 aircraft this winter instead of 30, cutting its fleet by almost a third as fuel costs bite.
Lufthansa Just Bought a Boeing It Has Never Flown
Lufthansa Group’s supervisory board approved 20 Boeing 737 MAX 10s on 17 September, the group’s first order for the largest MAX variant.
Nashville’s Newest Hotel Has a Museum on the Third Floor
Dolly Parton’s 245-room SongTeller Hotel has quietly begun welcoming guests on Commerce Street, ahead of a September 29 debut alongside a 20,000-square-foot museum inside the building.
Fifty Cruises Just Had Their Bahamas Clock Quietly Reset
Carnival has rewritten the port times at Celebration Key on more than fifty Carnival Elation sailings from Jacksonville, with changes reaching all the way into April 2028.
Six Years Later, Delhi and Guangzhou Get Their Flight Back
China Southern restarts daily nonstops between Guangzhou and New Delhi on September 21, closing a gap in the India-China air map that has been open since February 2020.
Three Thousand Airport Trucks Are About to Start Broadcasting
The FAA is putting $1.1 billion into 280 airport grants, including $10.9 million to fit 3,000 ground vehicles at 61 airports with transmitters that make them visible to controllers.
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