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Wednesday, December 26, 2018
American Airlines Resumes Service to St. Marteen and St. Thomas
12/26/2018
American Airlines is resuming service from New York Kennedy and Philadelphia to St. Thomas and St. Maarten this week, ending a 15-month hiatus caused by Hurricane Irma in September 2017.
Flights from Philadelphia resumed Wednesday and flights from New York launch Saturday.
American flies year-round daily service from Philadelphia to St. Maarten and four times per week year-round from Philadelphia to St. Thomas.
From Kennedy, the carrier operates a Saturday flight year-round to St. Thomas and Saturday winter seasonal service to St. Maarten.
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Saturday, December 15, 2018
As people prepare for the holiday season, AAA is forecasting a record-breaking 112.5 million travelers will take to the nation’s runways, roads and rails during the year-end holidays.
The estimated 112.5 million travelers would represent a 4.4 percent increase over last year and the most since AAA has been tracking holiday travel.
In total, more than 102 million people who will pack up their cars for the 11-day, year-end holiday travel period between December 22 and January 1, 2019, a 4.4 percent increase from last year.
Another 6.7 million people will fly to their destinations this year, a 4.2 percent increase and the highest number in 15 years. As for those traveling on a train, bus or cruise ship, a total of 3.7 million passengers will be utilizing these other means of transportation.
“’Tis the season for holiday travel, and more Americans than ever will journey to spend time with friends and family or choose to take a vacation,” AAA Travel managing director Bryan Shilling said. “Strong economic growth fueled by robust consumer spending continues to drive strong demand for seasonal travel. With a record-breaking one-third of the country choosing to travel this holiday, roadways and airports are sure to be busy.”
Driving this year could be a headache, as the most congestion on the roads will come before the holiday week, starting on December 19. Drivers in Atlanta, New York City, Boston and Houston will see travel times more than three times a normal trip.
As for fuel prices, a recent drop resulted in the cheapest national gas price averages of the year at $2.46 for the first week of December, which is two cents per gallon less than one year ago.
For those looking to avoid the busiest travel times at the airport, December 22, December 23 and December 26 will be the most congested days in the skies, while Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are the lightest travel days around the holidays.
Daily rates for car rentals have increased three percent over the last year, averaging $76 per day, making it the most expensive rate of the last 10 years. On the other hand, the average price of a AAA Three Diamond hotel fell three percent.
AAA also provided a list of the top 10 most popular holiday destinations, including:
1. Orlando, Florida
2. Cancun, Mexico
3. Anaheim, California (Disneyland)
4. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
5. Montego Bay, Jamaica
6. Honolulu, Hawaii
7. New York, New York
8. Kahului, Hawaii (Maui)
9. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
10. Miami, Florida
Friday, December 14, 2018
Travelers Sing National Anthem at Nashville Airport to Honor Gold Star Children
Traveling during the holidays can be a major headache, but passengers waiting for their flights in Nashville proved there is still good in this world when the entire airport honored the children of soldiers who had died.
According to The Tennessean, a video was shared online Monday that showed people waiting for their flights at Nashville International Airport as a group of more than 100 children who lost a parent in combat prepared to board a plane to Disney World.
As word spread around the facility about why the group was together, the vast majority of people inside the facility began singing the national anthem as a way to show solidarity and honor the children.
Traveler Jen Tringale was at the airport and filmed the moment.
Just beautiful: Nashville's airport came to a complete stop as travelers stopped to sing the national anthem to a plane full of children whose parents had died in combat— WSVN 7 News (@wsvn) December 11, 2018
STORY: https://t.co/BMuPpdZHZZ
(Video courtesy: Jen Tringale) pic.twitter.com/uSSYOJ66WA
“When they announced them over the loud speaker and they lined up to board the plane, the whole airport literally stopped and sang the national anthem with military present in salute,” Tringale told The Tennessean.
“Most every person standing around, myself included was bawling at the sight of these kids and spouses who have paid so great a price for our country,” Tringale continued. “To see all of this at Christmas time was so humbling. Seeing the general public in an airport stand still to honor these kids was simply beautiful.”
The children were being flown to Disney World as part of the Snowball Express, which flies more than 1,000 Gold Star children to the theme park as part of a partnership with American Airlines.
The Snowball Express is part of the Gary Sinise Foundation, which says the goal of the program is for “our Gold Star families to feel remembered and for them to see that they are not alone. It's something I feel is incredibly important for our nation, letting the children know that we do not forget their sacrifices and we honor them. And it's such a great feeling to see them healing, smiling, and having fun.”
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Sunday, December 2, 2018
JetBlue and Hawaiian Airlines Team Up Again to Help East Coasters Get to Hawaii
JetBlue and Hawaiian Airlines Team Up Again to Help East Coasters Get to Hawaii
12/01/2018
There’s been a flurry of good news for East Coasters coming out of what appears to be a budding relationship between JetBlue and Hawaiian Airlines.
Back in September, Hawaiian Airlines announced it will begin five-day-a-week nonstop service from Boston to Honolulu in April 2019. Currently, Boston is the largest U.S. market without nonstop service to Hawaii.
Sweeting the deal was a more recent announcement that the non-stop flights from Boston would be a codeshare with JetBlue, meaning JetBlue loyalty members could earn and use TrueBlue points on the route. It’s great news for the Jetblue folks in Boston and throughout the East, who can now get all the way to Honolulu using points (or earn points while getting there).
But there’s good news for Hawaiian Airlines loyalty members, too. The airlines announced that 26 JetBlue flights connecting to and from Boston would also be codeshare. This means that Hawaiian loyalty members can also use (and earn) points to get all the way to Hawaii, first on the codeshare JetBlue flight to Boston and then, as usual, on the Hawaiian Airlines flight to Honolulu.
The match is perfect on paper. Hawaiian Airlines does not offer domestic flights on the mainland, and JetBlue does not offer flights to Hawaii. The agreement opens up new options for loyalty members of both airlines when traveling to the islands.
JetBlue flights connecting to and from Boston that are covered by the codeshare agreement serve Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Charlotte, Charleston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, Newark, Orlando, Palm Beach, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Raleigh-Durham, Savannah, Syracuse, Tampa, and Washington, DC.
In commemoration of Hawaiian Airlines' 90th year of operation, the flight to Boston will be numbered Flight HA90. The inaugural flight will take place on April 4th and run five days a week. HA90 will depart Honolulu every day but Tuesday and Wednesday at 1:45 p.m. and arrive in Boston the following morning at 6 a.m.
Flight HA89 will depart Boston every day but Wednesday and Thursday at 8:55 a.m., except for Friday flights, which will depart at 8 a.m. The flights will arrive in Honolulu the same day at 2:35 p.m. and the Friday flight will arrive at 1:40 p.m.
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