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How to donate airline miles, hotel points & money to storm relief efforts

11/01/12
A lot of people need – and will continue to need – help recovering from Superstorm Sandy and several airlines are offering incentives for their customers to make cash donations to the Red Cross and other relief organizations. Here are a few options: JetBlue  is matching up to $50,000 in customer donations to the Red […]

Flight schedules reviving; relief efforts rewarded

11/01/12
In the New York area, JFK, Newark-Liberty and LaGuardia airports are all expected to be open on Thursday morning, although on reduced schedules, and passengers “displaced” by Sandy throughout the country – and the world – are slowly making their way to their destinations – or giving up altogether and making plans for another time. […]

Hurricane Sandy: airlines, airports not fooling around

10/29/12
Airlines & airports are not fooling around when it comes to Hurricane Sandy. On Sunday evening, news outlets were reporting that airlines had already canceled close to 7,000 flights throughout the system – not just in the northeast – in anticipation of the storm and encouraging passengers to take advantage of cancellation waiver offers. Airports […]

Airlines, airports getting ready for “Frankenstorm” Sandy

10/27/12
As hurricane Sandy makes it way to the U.S. airlines and airports, Amtrak, the New York subway system and highway departments along the projected path of the storm are getting ready. Pretty much eery airline – including Hawaiian Airlines has offered to waive change fees and fare differences for passengers whose travel plans will be […]

Airline Travel Alerts/Travel Waivers for Tropical Storm Isaac

08/25/12
[Updated Sunday, August 27, 2012] Weather happens. Here are links to some of the travel alerts and flight change options issued in response to the tropical storm Isaac by airlines as of Sunday morning, August 27th: Air Canada AirTran Airways American Airlines  Delta Air Lines Frontier Airlines JetBlue Spirit Airlines Southwest Airlines US Airways  United […]

Airports and travelers deal with summer heat and weather

08/17/12
Temperatures around the United States have been unusually hot. So hot, that NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) proclaimed July 2012 the hottest month since 1895, when recordkeeping of temperatures in the United States began. And so hot that on July 6th, when thermometers in Washington, D.C. reached 100 degrees, a regional US Airways […]
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