Little thanks expected this holiday at NYC airports, nation’s worst air travel bottleneck
Despite fewer people traveling this Thanksgiving, New York area airports will be as crowded as ever.
Despite some recent improvements, the Big Apple’s three major airports continue to be the country’s worst air travel bottleneck.
Through the first nine months of the year, they ranked first, second and third worst in on-time arrivals among the 31 major U.S. air hubs, according to federal statistics.
The problem doesn’t affect just New Yorkers. Because such a large percentage of the nation’s flights pass through the city sometime during any given day, delays here have a tendency to ripple elsewhere.
United Airlines offers a free “try before you buy” Wi-Fi session on all p.s. flights
On all premium service (p.s.) transcontinental flights, United is offering fliers a free trial of their wi-fi service.
To get the free session, all you need to do is create a new Gogo Inflight account. After that, you can surf the web for the entire duration of the flight. Since these flights are some of the longest domestic flights available, you’ll be saving $12.95 with this freebie.
2009 large market benchmarking report: business class use no longer dropping
Although companies are cutting back on travel, business class usage is slowly recovering.
American Express Business Travel Monitor data released this month for the third quarter, which ended on Sept. 30, shows 37 percent of tickets purchased by clients were for business class travel, while 58 percent of tickets were in the economy cabin.
American Express Business Travel Global Advisory Services research director Christa Manning said, “We’re definitely seeing some people move back to the front of the cabin,” but the numbers are further evidence of the degree that corporations have cut business class usage since the third quarter of 2008, when 49 percent of tickets purchased by American Express clients were for travel in the front of the plane-a difference of 12 percentage points from the most recent quarter.
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