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It’s already into December and you suddenly realize you really don’t want to sit at home that week after Christmas. A quick look online or a call to your travel agent will tell you, a few days in Hawaii or the Caribbean or Mexico really isn’t much of an option, unless you’re prepared to spend thousands in airfare before even beginning to look at prices for the few hotels available.
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Major US carriers urge the Obama administration to say no to re-regulating the industry or to intervene in airline operations.
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Super jetBlue unlimited travelers fly 50,000 miles. Conflicting climate change studies pit passenger airline association against cargo airline organization.
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That’s according to FlightStats, which just released its on-time numbers for August. The average for the top 40 North American airports was a 77 percent on-time arrival performance for the month, which is so-so.
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Priceline has just released their list of the Top 50 Destinations for Labor Day 2009. This is compilation based on actual bookings through priceline.com. That makes this list different from surveys that focus on future plans. This survey is based on future bookings of tens of thousands of travelers.
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The first rib-like forms of Santiago Calatrava’s World Trace Center Transportation Center are rising from the giant pit at the base of Ground Zero in Manhattan. What is expected to cost more than $3 billion and will not be completed for another four years, is a graceful building that will be the transportation hub for the train station below the World Trade Center.
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New York City is offering a unique tourism promotion that is sure strike a chord with anyone who loves to shop till they drop and who loves fashion: Fashion’s Night Out, on September 10th, 2009. Put it on your calendar. If you’re thinking of visiting The Big Apple, this is the perfect time.
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If you flew into Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport last month, chances are your plane was on time, according to the latest numbers released by FlightStats.com. Nearly 9 out of 10 flights pulled up to the gate within 15 minutes of their scheduled arrival. New York’s LaGuardia airport, where just over half of the flights were considered on-time.
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Air France wreckage starts to surface together with victims. Surveys rank top National Parks, but visitor counts disagree. Airlines are fighting over New York passengers as load factors shrink.
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Air New Zealand airs a racy new video with their staff wearing nothing but body paint. The airlines’ ontime statistics drop, but they are better than last year. And the FAA backs off auctioning slots in the NYC airspace — back to the drawing board.
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