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Airlines travel waivers for Winter Storm Blair

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Winter Storm Blair is disrupting travel across the Midwest and East Coast and causing thousands of flight delays. As of late Sunday evening, here’s what airlines were posting in terms of travel waivers and alerts:

As always, be sure to check with your airline before venturing to the airport for your flight.

Alaska Airlines: “We are offering a flexible travel policy to/from Baltimore (BWI), Cincinnati (CVG), Cleveland (CLE), Columbus (CMH), Detroit (DTW), Indianapolis (IND), Kansas City (MCI), Nashville (BNA), Philadelphia (PHL), Pittsburgh (PIT), Raleigh (RDU), St Louis (STL), Dulles (IAD), Washington D.C. (DCA), and Wichita (ICT) if you would like to change or cancel your flight.”

American Airlines: Travel waiver in effect for trips to, from or through more than 40 airports. If you are scheduled to travel January 4 – 6, 2025 you can change your ticket to fly instead through January 9, 2025

Delta Air Lines: Travel waiver in effect for travel to, from or through more than 20 airports. “When rebooked travel occurs on or before January 10, 2025, in the same cabin of service as originally booked, the fare difference will be waived.”

Frontier Airlines: Travel advisory in effect for about 10 airports.

Jet Blue: A travel waiver is in effect for these airports: Nashville, TN (BNA), Philadelphia, PA (PHL), Pittsburgh, PA (PIT), Raleigh-Durham, NC (RDU), Richmond, VA (RIC), and Washington, DC (DCA). “Customers may rebook their flights for travel through Wednesday, January 15, 2025.” 

Southwest Airlines: Travel advisory in effect for 16 cities. Travelers “may rebook or travel standby (within 14 days of their original date of travel between the original city pairs and in accordance with our accommodation procedures) without paying additional charges.” 

United Airlines: The travel waiver is in effect for more than 10 airports. The new flight must be a United flight departing by January 13, 2025. 

Travel tidbits: JetBlue travel waiver & a contest

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I’m racing to finish my book about things museums don’t show you, so just two quick travel tidbits for you today:

There’s still a lot of fall-out from Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast, including the fact that many schools are canceling or moving their mid-winter break times because schools were closed during the storm. That’s messing up plans many families have made for mid-February vacations.

To help out, JetBlue is waiving change fees for travel to or from New York airports (JFK, LaGuardia, Newark, Newburgh, White Plains) on Thursday, Feb. 14 through February 25, 2013, (although passengers are still responsible for any difference in airfares.

(Please let me know if you discover other airlines doing the same.)

And, in addition to some special events and in-store sales, the Philadelphia Marketplace Food & Shops at Philadelphia Airport is running a Facebook Friday contest . Answer some trivia questions to be entered in a contest for fun prizes.