The rest of the week's travel news in brief:
Tie the knot mid-flight
In-flight marriages at 9,000m will dispense with the formalities and let the honeymoon get started, if Easyjet has its way. The "weddingmoon" is a major travel trend, with many companies offering to arrange the ceremony at a location of the couple's choice, often with their friends and family on board. This new idea allows couples to embark engaged and disembark married so that they can proceed directly to the honeymoon suite. Easyjet says it has made enquiries about whether pilots could be legally entitled to pronounce passengers husband and wife.
Food for thought
Manhattan's celebrity restaurants have found a way to lure clientele on budgets: smaller plates. They're also trying out prix-fixe menus and tapas menus to attract tourists away from affordable pizzerias and delis and into the higher stratosphere of pretentious food. French restaurant Picholine is offering "tasting flights" (three dishes for $20) and "tasting plates" at $15 each. Each dish is a mouthful of delicacies such as Wagyu beef, foie-gras lollipops or gnocchi. You might want to stop in for pizza on the way home. Picholine, 35 W64th Street, 00-1-212-7248585.