The Importance of An Ai...

I’m still hanging out, getting to know my son, so here’s another guest post for you. This time it’s an interesting look at airports and their names. —- The name of an airport: we see it when we book reservations, on billboards as we cruise down the highway, on...
US Airways Moves Toward Smaller Cities at National After Getting Delta’s Slots

US Airways Moves Toward...

It’s really interesting to watch US Airways as it starts to announce how it’s going to use its newly acquired slots at Washington’s National Airport . While Delta made a huge splash in New York with its hub-creation at LaGuardia after it got the US Airways slots there,...

Iceland Express Leaves ...

Iceland Express, which had been flying leased 757s across the Atlantic to Boston, Newark, Chicago and Winnipeg (?), has announced that they will no longer be flying those routes. The Icelandic budget carrier had been leasing the 757s from Astraeus Airlines which: a) went out of business...

News and Deals: January...

Maldives Tourism Asks Hotels to Close Spas ‎ Focus on Travel News The Maldives’ Government order to ban all spas and health centers in resorts has evoked concerns in the country’s tourism industry. The Maldives Tourism ministry instructed all resort hotels across the...

Microsoft and Southwest...

Filed under: Festivals and Events , Europe , United States , Airlines , Airports For the second year in a row, Microsoft and Southwest Airlines have joined forces to offer free holiday themed photos and giveaway some great prizes as well. Between now and December 24th, you’ll be...

Delta, JetBlue, and Spi...

It’s been a tough few weeks for American without question. After filing for bankruptcy, it’s probably not a surprise that we see airlines trying to take advantage of the situation by moving in on American’s turf. There were three moves last week in particular that...

News and Deals: Novembe...

Cruises lead strong revival of New Orleans tourism‎ Reuters Mark and Glenda Dodd of Panama City Beach, Florida, could have booked a Mexico-bound cruise out of Miami, but on Monday they stood among hundreds of other passengers lining up to board the Carnival Cruise Line ship Elation in...
Southwest Announces New International Service, Buries Route and City Cuts

Southwest Announces New...

It looks like Southwest has decided to take a queue from the old school PR handbook by making a big splash over new city and route announcements while quietly slipping in cuts to other cities and routes. There are a lot of changes with the schedule for next summer and we’re really...

Roundtrip Fares to Dubl...

We haven’t seen any non-mistake, non-fuel dump cheap airfares to Europe in quite some time, so I thought it was noteworthy that you can hop a Continental Airlines flight from New York to Dublin and Shannon, Ireland, for $380 round trip (Shannon may be a couple of dollars less)....

Host and experience bud...

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