Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Today marks the first flight for OpenSkies between AMS and JFK. And, given the sale that has been out for a week, there are likely plenty of seats to purchase. Only $499 each way plus taxes and fees for roundtrip travel. Stating the obvious, the economy's collapse can not be ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
British Airways and Virgin join Air France, Singapore Airlines and Emirates in reducing their fuel surcharges.
These may fall more as recession fears set in, but look for them to come back next summer as fuel prices start to rise again.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Looks like JetBlue is trying to drum up some demand as it is out with a $30 off promotion code. Use promo code JetOct08 and book by October 16 for travel October 23 - December 15. Thanksgiving travel is not valid. As JetBlue would say, Happy Jetting.
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Google is celebrating its 10th birtday with a link that allows you to search the internet of December 2001and look at archived pages. If you are looking for something to make you ill you can check out this archived link to the Wall Street Journal and see not only the old ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Sorry everyone, it looks like American Airlines will be blocking certain inappropriate content on its in-flight wireless.
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Quick Tip: Imagine you’re planning a trip and decide it’s finally time to see how much it will actually cost you to fly from Point A to Point B. With much surprise you find out the tickets are inexpensive. You then make your final calls/emails to confirm the trip and ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Sun Country continues to be in the news (not a good thing) as they filed for bankruptcy yesterday. They plan to keep on flying and attempt to reogranize, but as I noted yesterday, announcing that you might go out of business is just the same as announcing you are out ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Quick followup on Friday's post: Sun Country is now warning that a December 1st shutdown is a "distinct possibility," citing the reasons discussed in Friday's post.
As you might imagine, when an airline comes out with news like this, advance bookings tend to evaporate. So, while they have a fleet ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Much of the talk about Southwest's entrance into MSP has understandably focused on Northwest's response. Northwest has promised to match Southwest on price and service. Yes, this is vague and it will be interesting to see how Northwest stumbles into a competitive response. It is only one route, but Southwest ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Good news for those in Chicago that travel to Toronto. Porter Airlines is launching service between the two cities on November 12. Aside from being the only service to Toronto from Midway, Porter Airlines has two great advantages:
They fly to and from Toronto City Centre Airport which is not congested and ...
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