Happy Wednesday Travelers! Here’s an update in travel news: JETBLUE was offering $10 tickets to celebrate its 10-year anniversary of service, to be purchased yesterday and today, but the promotion was so successful it sold out. CHINA has lifted a 20-year ban on travelers with HIV and AIDS that prevented them from entering the country. The [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Now Boarding’
May 2, 2010
Now Boarding: United merges with Continental
The news is out: United Airlines is buying out Continental Airlines, a $3 billion merger that will make United the world’s biggest airline. As long as the merger wins approval from the Justice Department’s anti-trust department, the merged airline will be headquartered out of Chicago (United’s current headquarters and major hub). What does this mean to [...]
April 26, 2010
Now Boarding: Charging for carry-ons
Now airlines are charging for what? Yes, Spirit Airlines is charging for CARRY-ON luggage. It is news that is rocking the travel industry and poor Spirit Airlines is shielding itself from hurled tomatoes and huffing customers taking their business elsewhere. The small discount airline, which flies to 40 destinations, mainly out of Miami to the Caribbean, South America, [...]
April 16, 2010
Now Boarding: Flying through ashen skies
If you’re one of the thousands of travelers stranded because Iceland, a country named for being very icy, had a volcanic eruption spewing fire and ash into the skies and making visibility and flying conditions unsafe, then you must be enjoying the long queues trying to get a rail ticket, a rental car, a hotel, [...]
March 24, 2010
Now Boarding: “Fly Girls” on the CW
O.M.G! The CW has debuted its own reality show where they follow around five very sexy, pretty young female flight attendants through all their drama and daily woes. Viewers of “Fly Girls” fly around with the Virgin America flight attendants donning straight-jacket-tight white button-up shirt uniforms and tight skirts as they spend their layovers going to parties [...]
March 16, 2010
Now Boarding: Trouble in Paradise
Recently, we’ve been trying to book my inlaws on a much-deserved tropical vacation for a week. They wanted somewhere quiet, clean, comfortable, ocean view, with good restaurants and weather, minus screaming kids, minus drunk college students, minus drunk middle agers pretending to be in college. So we chose St. Martin – an island for those [...]
February 22, 2010
Now Boarding: Monday Hat News- American charges for blankets!
Happy Monday everyone! Here’s the latest in travel news. American Airlines is charging for BLANKETS and PILLOWS – at a whopping $8 a blanket/pillow set on domestic flights and flights to/from Mexico and Canada. Those questionably clean (even though sealed in plastic), staticky nappy blankets and bunchy little pillows that everyone fights over that American [...]
February 3, 2010
Now Boarding: Bye-bye, Northwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines and Delta Airlines quietly integrated into one company on January 31. The news had poked around my radar, but I didn’t get confirmation of it until I went onto www.nwa.com to check my miles number only to have it redirected to Delta’s site. For a while, the two airlines had been operating together [...]
February 1, 2010
Now Boarding: Monday Hat News
Yes, someone’s got a severe case of the Mondays, after being couped up indoors through the weekend’s snowfall and freezing temperatures. Some news in the travel world: Machu Picchu landslide strands 2,000 tourists: Heavy rains caused landslides in the ancient city of Machu Picchu, destroying houses and crops and damaging the railway tracks between Cuzco, [...]
