Need a New Passport? State Department Tells Travelers to Apply at Least 6 months Before Departure
Amid continued unprecedented demand for international travel, the State Department is advising Americans to submit applications for passports at least six months before their scheduled departure dates.
A State Department official said in an email that current processing times are 10 to 13 weeks for routine processing. It takes seven to nine weeks for expedited processing, which costs an extra $60.
The estimates do not include the time it takes for your application to travel through the mail; the clock starts when the State Department receives the application, the official said.
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New Study Finds Many Business Travelers Don’t Have Equal Opportunities to Travel
The fifth annual SAP Concur Global Business Travel Survey highlights how business travelers around the world are eager to get back to traveling for work, but that many feel there aren’t equal opportunities to do so.
The survey asked 3,850 business travelers across twenty-five different countries for their biggest concerns, fears and whether or not they’re ready to travel for work.
The large majority of travelers (at 94 percent) are willing to travel for work within the next year, but almost two-thirds of respondents (62 percent) said that they haven’t had an equal opportunity to do so. For business travelers from the U.S., this is even higher, at 72 percent.
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Serving ‘Lunch’ Before Midnight — and Other Ways Airlines Can Help Reduce Jet Lag
From popping melatonin to making fists with your toes, passengers have long employed strategies to combat the negative effects of air travel.
But airlines can play a role too, according to new research from Qantas and the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre.
The research is part of Qantas’ Project Sunrise program, which plans to link Sydney to New York City and London via non-stop flights in 2025.
Qantas says that while it has the capability to fly the 20-hour flights, it’s studying ways — from lighting schedules to eating spicy foods — to make the journey less arduous for passengers and crew.
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