May 5, 2012 – Hour 2

Airline analyst Ernie Arvai of Boston’s Arvai Group explains why US Airways is so interested in merging with American Airlines and why American is trying to ignore its suitor. How many ways can you die in Yosemite? Author and Arizona river guide Michael Giglieri, author of Death in Yosemite, explains how to visit the park and live to tell about it. Also: the co-author of an authoritative new book titled Markets of Paris, Marjorie Williams, explains how to find the bargains and hidden delights at food, furniture, and other markets in the City of Light; and don’t forget the gardens of Paris, advises Susan Cahill , author of Hidden Gardens of Paris. Plus, travel expert and rabbi Peter Tarlow marks National Travel & Tourism Week by tracing tourism to Biblical times, and Rudy Maxa wraps up the week’s news in travel.