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Routes: American, United, JetBlue, Southwest, OneJet, Frontier

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In domestic route news, American grows its Philadelphia hub and expands transcon wide-body flights there; United adds spokes to its O’Hare and Denver hubs; JetBlue revives a California route for the holidays; Southwest drops a Washington D.C. route; and Frontier keeps rearranging its network. American Airlines is expanding access to its Philadelphia hub by adding […]
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Airbnb’s newest lure for business travelers

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Alternative lodging company Airbnb has taken several steps in the past couple of years to make its rental accommodations more attractive to business travelers – creating filtered searches  for member properties that have business amenities, building links to corporate expense reporting systems, and so on. Now the company is testing the addition of one more […]
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Don’t miss these 10 hottest ‘hoods in the U.S.

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If business keeps taking you back to the same cities, do you spend your free time there revisiting the same old haunts and/or hanging around your hotel? For a bit of urban adventure, why not check out a city’s up-and-coming hot neighborhoods that are loved by locals but still undiscovered by visitors? Travel publisher Lonely […]
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TWA Hotel takes shape at JFK – and NYC (slideshow)

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The foundations have been laid and construction is proceeding on the new TWA Hotel at New York JFK Airport, a 505-room property that incorporates the original 1962 TWA Terminal as its centerpiece. A pair of guest room structures will soon rise on either side of the old terminal, which is being preserved and restored, and […]
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Airport Lyft & Uber pickups get faster. Why?

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When I got off the plane late last night at SFO and called up Lyft for a ride home I was surprised when the app told me that the driver was only one minute away. I was still deep in the terminal and had to hustle to get to the curbside to keep him from […]
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Deal Alert: California Corridor goes dirt cheap

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There’s a good old fashioned fare war happening in the California Corridor this week with round trip fares on several airlines as low as $51 round trip on NorCal-SoCal flights.  It appears that the war got started when Southwest Airlines deeply discounted round trips between its big Oakland hub and southern California cities. Spirit jumped […]
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New: Take a bus to your plane at SFO

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To help meet the feverish demand for gate space, Virgin America and Alaska Airlines started using a remote stand at San Francisco International last month. Remote stands are a lot more common overseas than they are in the U.S. where nearly every flight loads and unloads passengers via enclosed jetways at each gate. Instead, passengers […]
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Airport experience at all-time high. Why?

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A new of passenger satisfaction with North American airports found that flyers’ happiness with the airport experience is at “an all-time high” with airports like Orlando, Detroit and Las Vegas emerging as favorites. However, The J.D. Power survey points to big frustrations at facilities undergoing major construction projects. I have to agree with those findings when […]
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