The 28-day sailing from Rome to Singapore in 2011 will include stops in Europe, Africa and Asia.

An Asian news service has gone so far as to create a digital recreation of how the incident may have looked on the plane.

From USA TODAY's Airport Check-in column: Delta touted its efforts to develop Asian gateways in both Detroit and Seattle last week as it launched ...

From USA TODAY's Airport Check-in column: Delta touted its efforts to develop Asian gateways in both Detroit and Seattle last week as it launched ...

Asiana Airlines has been voted the world's top airline for 2010 in the annual survey conducted by Britain aviation consultancy SkyTrax. With ...

Beleaguered U.S. airlines are increasingly looking to Asia to bolster their fortunes.

Vanilla pods, packed in sugar, photo by Donna James and I made popovers Sunday morning and sprinkled them with vanilla sugar, and this sugar made the popovers appealing in a surprisingly effective way.  Like fleur de sel on caramel.  It brought the flavors and textures together without overtly calling attention to itself.  When I’d posted a while ago in a recipe to discard the vanilla bean, I got what amounted to a scolding from Shuna , who found it appalling that one could so easily waste an opportunity for the pleasures of vanilla sugar.  She was right to scold. I had never really taken the time to appreciate the wonderful aromatic flavor of sugar but now I always will.  It deserves a place in the spice rack.  That it is born of economy makes it all the more enjoyable. If you’ve just made some crème Anglaise , or used vanilla bean in any way, pack the beanless pod in sugar.  In a week or two, the sugar will be perfumed with vanilla.  The vanilla is so powerful that when Donna was shooting the above photo, the room was fragrant with it.  I’ll never toss an empty vanilla pod again. I know vanilla sugar is nothing new and would love to hear how others have put it to use.  In fact, I’ve got several pods sent to my by cousin Missy and her partner, Chris, who travel widely in southeast Asia and sent me an array of spices from there (and the lovely new book by Deborah Madison, What We Eat When We Eat Alone —thank you Missy and Chris!).  Tell me how you’ve used it (or even might use it), I’ll choose one of you at random, and send you some of these very special beans with thanks to all for the ideas and comments.

Delta Air Lines is expected to move more aircraft to the Pacific Northwest to handle service to Asia as it continues to shuffle ...

Walter Keats, president of Asia Pacific Travel, says the country's state-run travel company will allow visitation throughout ...

Japan Airlines, the largest Asian airline by revenue, filed Tuesday for a court-supervised restructuring that will reduce its ...