I’ll give a bit of credit where it’s due:  AirTran has really helped to drop fares out of Chicago.  It has a 2-day sale starting today that has $39 fares from Chicago to Boston and $49 fares from Chicago to Newark.  Before AirTran came along, the Newark fares started at double that price.  What a [...]

Two air marshals were arrested and charged with using their positions to smuggle narcotics on airplanes.  The geniuses were brought into custody after an informant delivered 33 pounds (?!) of cocaine to the home of one of the air marshals.  Incredibly, the pair were willing to risk their lives and career for a combined $67,000.  [...]

Quick note:  Virgin Atlantic (bookable via Travelocity) has a $196 r/t fare from New York to London during the summer months (with tax, it comes to about $400.  I think it’s also available from Boston).  This is crazy cheap for summer travel—about half what you’d usually pay.  I’m sure this will go quickly.
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A small bit of housekeeping:  My email address (jared@onlinetravelreview.com) is back up and running after being down for quite a while. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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Baggage screeners at Fort Lauderdale’s airport discovered a human head in the luggage of a passenger arriving from Cape Haitien, Haiti.  Myrlene Severe said that the head was related to her belief in voodoo—the head was being used to ward off evil spirits.  Apparently it didn’t work.

A Turkish Airlines A340 skidded off the runway while landing at JFK airport last night.  No one was injured, but it took workers about an hour to get passengers off the plane.  New York City received about 27 inches of snow yesterday, so investigators are (obviously) looking into whether weather played a role.

Sir Freddie Laker, the aviation pioneer responsible for introducing cheap fares across the Atlantic, died Thursday at the age of 83.  Laker ran Laker Airways, a British carrier, that flew the Laker Skytrain from London to New York.  The airline offered $100 fares in 1977, 2/3 below what competitors were charging, making it possible for [...]

Delta Air Lines announced that it has applied for permission to fly from Atlanta to Johannesburg, South Africa, with an intermediate stop in Dakar, Senegal.  If permitted, the flights will begin in December, 2006.  These flights would mark the only non-charter flights to Africa by a US carrier (North American Airways flies to Ghana, but [...]

Some of you visiting the OTR yesterday may have gotten an error page suggesting that I had screwed something up with this site.  That was not exactly true.  Typepad, the software I use to write this thing, had some networking issues (well beyond my technical knowledge), which led to some people being able to read [...]

Air Tahiti Nui has a fantastic sale for flights from New York to Auckland, New Zealand.  Round trip fares are just $598 for flights March 27th to June 10th.  Added bonus?  Free stopover in Tahiti.  You can’t beat that.

If you’re involved in New York mortgages and like many others you’re thinking about refinancing your [...]