Some jobs have perks. it must be said; and being a flight attendant has always retained a modicum of romance for the travel-hungry job seeker. Taking off from New York and having a couple of days to kill in Shanghai is appealing, and flight attendants manage to collect some rather useful information about the places  Continue Reading »

Soon travelers using Los Angeles International Airport will have more choices about which destinations to explore. Delta Airlines is adding a number of flights out of LAX to several cities in the sun. The Atlanta-based airline said on Tuesday that it would begin operating flights between Los Angeles and Leon, Mexico starting on July 1.  Continue Reading »

When Delta Airlines raised the price of its domestic fares by $5 each way on Friday, many predicted the hike would not catch on. Over the past year, there have been four attempts by American airlines to raise ticket prices in order to compensate for the increasing cost of maintenance, labor and jet fuel. In  Continue Reading »

Adverse weather in the Northeast resulted in Chaos over the weekend at many US airports, as the busy budget carrier JetBlue cancelled more than 200 flights on Friday alone, affecting up to a third of all its travellers. Flights from New York’s JFK airport were hardest hit, but La Guardia, Newark and Boston Logan were  Continue Reading »

The results are out, and Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport can once again claim to be the world’s busiest airport. The world’s leading passenger throughput airport for many years, Hartsfield lost the title last year to O’Hare, but has reclaim the number 1 spot with some 84 million passengers passing through its terminals in 2006. Despite  Continue Reading »