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The plane poised to shake up transatlantic travel

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Also: Europe's overtourism woes and Japan's convenience store rival View in Browser 11.16.24 In  travel  news this week: crackdowns on overtourism in Florence and Pompeii, new developments in the world of long-haul and ultralong-haul flights, plus the California couple who moved to France, where things did not go as they hoped.   By Maureen O'Hare   ✈️ Launch of the Airbus A321XLR Iberia Airbus A321XLR (Courtesy Airbus) It's slim, it's sleek, it has a third fuel tank, and it's ready to open up unexplored long-haul routes.   It's the new Airbus A321XLR — the XLR   is for "Xtra Long Range" — and it just made its inaugural flight with Spain's Iberia airline on Thursday, with a hop from Madrid to Boston.   Iberia's 182-seat plane is the world's longest-range single-aisle commercial aircraft, with a range of up to 4,700 nautical miles (a little over 5,400 miles).   For c

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An LA mansion has become the latest dark tourism hot spot

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Also: Michelin-star ice cream and a fountain of discontent View in Browser 11.09.24 This week in  travel news: why true crime buffs are heading to Beverly Hills, a look at the world's only Michelin-starred ice cream restaurant and the reaction to a "makeunder" of one of Italy's star attractions.   By Lilit Marcus   🏠 Gawking at the Menendez mansion Former Menendez mansion. (Michael Blackshire/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images) A new Netflix series about Lyle and Erik Menendez, brothers who were convicted of murdering their parents Jose and Kitty in 1989, has resulted in tourists flocking to the Beverly Hills mansion where the crime took place.   "The Menendez Brothers" series, which revisits the famous case and focuses on the abuse the two men say they suffered at the hands of their father, has spurred calls  to resentence the Menendezes  and offer them parole.   On a recent Wednesday in Octo