New York City Airports to Resume Flights
Medioimages/Photodisc(NEW YORK) — John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports are expected to resume passenger flights on Saturday morning after cancelling flights on Friday due to blizzard conditions.Newark Liberty International Airport in N…
Thousands of Flights Grounded Ahead of Northeast Blizzard
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The 2013 winter storm expected to pound areas of the Northeast with as much as two feet of snow this weekend is snarling travel in the Northeast. As of early Friday evening, 4,740 U.S. flights had been cancelled thro…
New Hampshire Airport Offers Holiday Travelers $12 Flights to Boston, NYC
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(LEBANON, N.H.) — Just in time for the end of the busy holiday season, Cape Air and a regional airport in New Hampshire are promoting flights to Boston and New York for $12.In attempt to qualify for federal grant money by flying …
Nor’easter Forces 1,500 Flight Cancellations
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — For the second time in as many weeks, airlines are cancelling large numbers of flights. First, it was superstorm Sandy. Now, a nor’easter. By Wednesday morning, the approaching storm caused more than 1,500 flight can…
JetBlue Offers $299 Unlimited Flights for Pets
Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Frequent fliers by the name of Fido, your time has come.This fall, JetBlue will offer unlimited flights for cats and dogs accompanied by their owners for $299.The “All Your Pet Can Jet” pass allows the purchaser to…
JetBlue Offers $299 Unlimited Flights for Pets
Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Frequent fliers by the name of Fido, your time has come.This fall, JetBlue will offer unlimited flights for cats and dogs accompanied by their owners for $299.The “All Your Pet Can Jet” pass allows the purchaser to…
JetBlue Offers $299 Unlimited Flights for Pets
Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Frequent fliers by the name of Fido, your time has come.This fall, JetBlue will offer unlimited flights for cats and dogs accompanied by their owners for $299.The “All Your Pet Can Jet” pass allows the purchaser to…
Is an Adults-Only Flight Worth the Money?
Photodisc/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) – What is it, exactly, that the traveling public seems to have against kids? After all, we were all kids at some point. But in the latest online, unscientific survey on whether people would pay extra for adult-only…
Cheapest and Most Expensive Weekends for Summer Travel
John Foxx/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Hotel prices are up. Airfare is up. So how can you beat higher prices and still travel this summer?It’s simple: just know when and when not to fly.Online travel agency Travelocity analyzed two years of book…
Unlimited Travel: Deals Too Costly for Airlines?
Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — American Airlines’ “unlimited” first-class travel program offered an “all-you-can-fly” lifestyle to 66 AAirpass holders, some of whom lived it up so much that American had to stop the program, igniting a rash of la…
Coming Soon: Just Tweet ‘Buy’ to Purchase Flight
TweetAFlight(NEW YORK) — Ever see an airline sale advertised on Twitter? Tweeting about last-minute deals is a great way for airlines to move unsold seats. Here’s a recent deal tweeted by an airline:“Boston to Dallas flights from $99 one-w…
Panetta Regrets Cost of His Weekend Trips to California as Defense Secretary
Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday he regrets the high cost of his weekend travels to California, and is looking for ways to save money on flights that have totaled about $860,000 since he came …
Solar Storm Causes Flights to be Rerouted
Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A geomagnetic storm caused Delta Airlines to reroute a handful of flights that were scheduled to fly over the North Pole Tuesday.A Delta spokesman said the flights were shifted to fly further south in an effort to ens…
Non-Stop Atlantic Flights Keep Stopping, Blaming Headwinds
John Foxx/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Thousands of passengers on non-stop flights from Europe to the U.S. over the past month have found themselves with an unexpected stop — an unplanned landing to take on more fuel.Pilots have had to put down in Canada o…