Roundup: Air France update; Southwest Summer sale; China censors social networking sites

Air France Update | If you were looking for an update on Air France Flight 447 – you might be left unsatisfied. Search planes spotted a seat, an orange buoy, a tank and a fuel slick about 400 miles off the coast of Brazil. “Most of the wreckage is probably resting now 9,000 feet to 14,000 feet below the surface, where it is pitch black, the water temperature is 40 degrees and the pressure as high as 7,000 pounds per square inch, scientists said.” The Associated Press says that the debris field is 3 miles wide. French investigators are looking for the black boxes from the plane, but they might never be found.

Southwest Summer Sale | Southwest Airlines has select cities on sale with airfares as low as $49 each way, pre tax, from Los Angeles (LAX) to Las Vegas (LAS), San Francisco (SFO), Sacramento (SAC), Oakland (OAK) and San Jose (SJC).

China | If you are traveling to China this week, be aware that your social networking capabilities will be limited. China is censoring certain communications websites for the 20th anniversary of the pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. “Besides Twitter, which went down Tuesday, Hotmail’s Web-based e-mail and the photo-sharing site Flickr have been blocked. YouTube has been blocked here since early April,” writes the Los Angeles Times’ Barbara Demick.

– Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger

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