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Month: June 2025

JetBlue to Sell Semi-Private Plane Fares with JetSuiteX

JetBlue’s announcement of a new codesharing deal with semi-private plane carrier JetSuiteX highlights the behind-the-scenes growth of a new class of airline—corporate travel. JetSuiteX offers scheduled flights on a handful of routes from Burbank, California to nearby Concord, Las Vegas, Oakland, San Jose, and (seasonally) Mammoth. The big difference from your standard airline is that
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Delta Ends Empty Middle Seats Policy

For the last few months, Delta has been the lone U.S. airline holding out and leaving middle seats empty, but that’s about to change. Delta CEO Ed Bastian just announced that the airline will be unblocking the middle seat and booking flights to full capacity starting May 1. Bastian cited an increase in COVID-19 vaccination
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Airlines Set to Pull in Record $39 Billion in Profit This Year

Yep, that’s “billion” with a ‘b’. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the trade group for the world’s airlines, estimates that global profit for 2016 will be $39.4 billion this year, a nine percent increase over 2015. “It seems that we are living in extraordinary financial times,” said IATA director-general Alexandre de Juniac. He also noted that
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La Compagnie to Shut Down Business-Class Flights to London

Google “La Compagnie” and the top non-sponsored result describes the airline thusly: “Discover Paris and London with La Compagnie, the unique French all-business-class airline, at an affordable price.” That descriptor is accurate today, but won’t be from September 25, when La Compagnie suspends its service between the U.S. and London. The company linked its withdrawal
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Amazon Is Offering Nine Free Kindle Downloads for World Book Day

Amazon is helping us celebrate World Book Day (Thursday, April 23) in quarantine with nine free Kindle downloads. Take a look at the free books you can download … we’re especially excited because many of the downloads are travel related. Related: 9 Secret Amazon Kindle Tips You Probably Don’t Know About Check out the other
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United Airlines Is Changing Its Boarding Process

Flyers covet the window seat for many reasons, and now you can add another to the list: getting to board first on United Airlines. Starting October 26, the carrier will change its boarding process to allow window-seat passengers in economy class to board before passengers in the middle and aisle seats, according to an internal
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Canada Reminds U.S. Tourists to Leave Their Guns at Home

Canadian border officials have had their hands full with American gun owners lately, and now our neighbors to the north are launching a U.S.-geared “firearms awareness campaign” in response. In two separate incidents during the same weekend, U.S. citizens from Texas failed to declare their weapons upon inspection when they crossed the border, according to
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