Tag Archives: North America

Cambria Suites ready for Mid-town Manhattan

From 2009, mid-town Manhattan will have a new luxury option when it comes to hotels dedicated wholly to suites. The Cambria Suites Hotel will be in the prime location of west 33rd St, within walking distance of Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. PLC Partners and LLC of New York City are the owners of  Continue Reading »

Tailgate party in New Jersey before Giants leave

The Super Bowl is coming up, and the granddaddy of all American sporting events is set to be a memorable experience once again. This year, even if you can’t make it to Phoenix, Arizona to see the game, Continental Airlines, the official airline for the participating New York Giants is throwing their own tailgate party  Continue Reading »

New deal between Air Canada & hotels.com

There has been a new multi-year agreement signed between Canada’s national airline and the hotel booking site, www.hotels.com. The deal is yet another strategic partnership between two mutually benefited businesses, taking customers from one market to the inextricable next step; but doing it together. Air Canada passengers will now have access to the entire property  Continue Reading »

Book mobile with American Airlines

American Airlines has launched a mobile version of its website, www.aa.com, which will eventually enable customers to purchase tickets directly form their mobile devices. But that isn’t set to happen until later, but for now there are still plenty of useful features on the mobile website, such as weather reports, itinerary checks, delay information and  Continue Reading »

DFW sells itself to South Korea

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport has sent a delegation from the Dallas and Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) to Seoul, Korea in order to promote their new campaign to show the Asian market that DFW airport is the best way to explore the region, with their pitch titled ‘Visit DFW”. The initial buzz  Continue Reading »

Cruising from NY? This site’s for you

Anne Campbell is a longtime journalist for the cruise industry, and she has just launched a new website, Cruising From New York. As the name implies, the site is wholly dedicated to everything to do with cruising in and out of New York City. Practical concerns like directions to the ports and suggested routes are  Continue Reading »

AirTran adds new US routes

General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has become more well connected to the rest of the US, with AirTran expanding its service from Milwaukee to New York LaGuardia Airport. The airline until now has served Atlanta, Baltimore-Washington, Tampa, Phoenix, Orlando and Las Vegas. The AirTran fleet is one of the youngest in the country,  Continue Reading »

Broadband in the skies for Southwest passengers

It was announced yesterday that American Airlines was ready to do beta testing with its own system for internet use in its aircraft cabins, and one of its competitors, Southwest Airlines, is taking another approach, with its tests that will enable passengers with a wifi device to surf the net through their connection to broadband  Continue Reading »

BC develops high-tech driver’s licence

The United States has already made it mandatory that visitors from other North American countries must present a passport to enter the country, and in two years, the mandatory passport rule will extend to land and sea borders as well. This new set of regulations led to Chaos last year as Americans scrambled to get  Continue Reading »

Airline entertainment unveiled at Sundance

It’s not often that an airline’s inflight entertainment roster is announced at one of the world’s leading film festivals, but that is precisely what Virgin America has done at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The airline’s Red Inflight Entertainment System will showcase a selection of material from the Sundance Channel, selected specifically for the airline.  Continue Reading »

2008 Spring Break to cost 10% more than 2007

Spring Break is the time where many Americans take a week’s holiday and jet off to a sunny location either within the United States, the Caribbean or to a lesser extent, Europe or farther. With such high volume of travel, flights and such can be a bit more expensive around this time, even if flights  Continue Reading »

In-flight internet from American Airlines

American Airlines is currently testing the Aircell internet broadband system at its maintenance base in Kansas City. If things go to plan, passengers on the airlines Transcontinental routes will be able to surf the web, check email and access VPN networks from 30,000 feet in the air. The projected date of implementation is sometime this  Continue Reading »