Hi Everyone,
I hope that you are having a great Labor Day weekend and are doing something fun.
If you are traveling and see that your flight is delayed or cancelled, you will want to do what everyone else is doing by getting in line, and also getting on your phone to the airline, but you may want to pull up the website, Flight Aware. You can plug in your flight info and this site will tell you where your current flight is. If it is still sitting somewhere, it will be a while. This website can let you know if there is a ground stop on wherever your flight is. If it is on it’s way, you ‘ll be able to see the new time of arrival. It is one of the industry’s best flight tracking websites.
Going to Europe? There will be a little work to do. Visitors to the 20 countries of the European Union Schengen Area will need to comply with the new automated Entry/Exit System (EES) scheduled to begin on November 10. There is nothing to be done ahead of time but you will need to comply with a new procedure (EES)when you go through customs in Europe. It is an automated IT system for registering non EU travelers for short stays each time they cross the external borders of a most of the Schengen Area countries. There is nothing to do beforehand and there is no charge. It is going to make the customs lines longer though, at least at the beginning. It is scheduled to start this year.
This procedure is different than the the EITAS which is scheduled to begin in 2025. ETIAS travel authorization is an entry requirement for visa-exempt nationals traveling to any of 30 European countries. It is linked to a traveler’s passport and is valid up to three years or until the passport expires, whichever comes first. If you get a new passport, you’ll need to get a new ETIAS authorization. This is scheduled to begin next year and you’ll be able to get it online for approximately 7 euro. This is supposed to be a fairly easy process.
2025-26 Tours and Sailings
May 30-June 7, 2025 Columbia & Snake Rivers Board your river cruise ship in Portland, Oregon and cruise to Clarkston, Idaho on a 9 day, 8night journey. On your journey you will visit Ft. Clapstop, Mt St. Helens, Cross the “Bridge of the Gods and admire Nulnomah Falls. You’ll end your cruise in Clarkston, to Fly home from Lewiston Idaho.- American Cruise Lines
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