Today in travel news-that’s-not-news.

The saturday before last, it hit 70º in New York City, but lately things have been suitably wintry. It would be a relief, if I hadn’t just found out that it snowed in Los Angeles yesterday.

Royal Nepal Airlines has some ‘splaining to do: A recent ad campaign sporting the tag line “Have You Seen Nepal?” featured, instead of pictures off the majestic Himalayas, a shot of Machu Picchu.

If you’ve ever visited a great ape exhibit at the zoo and had the painful awareness that there are very sentient creatures on the other side of glass, well, the Adelaide Zoo hears you.

The Airbus “superjumbo” A380 has been declared worthy for the commercial air market by both the FAA and the European Aviation Safety Administration (EASA) in a joint ceremony today.

At the Thai restaurant where I ate last night, a woman in traditional dress was rinsing everyone’s hands with rose petal water before they sat down to eat, a lovely bonus, really. It was, she said, in honor of Songkran, or Thai New Year.