Southwest Lands at Newark Liberty Airport (EWR)

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Mar 282011
 


Budget airline Southwest has commenced flights from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) with eight flights initially.

The new service offers six daily nonstop flights to Chicago Midway and two daily nonstop flights to St. Louis.

Beginning June 5, 2011, Southwest plans to expand the service with three daily nonstops to Continue reading »

United Offers Mobile Boarding Pass for International Travelers

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Mar 242011
 

United Continental Holdings, Inc., the parent company of United and Continental Airlines, has expanded its mobile check-in and mobile boarding passes to United customers traveling with international itineraries. Customers may check in at united.com using a Web-enabled mobile device beginning 24 hours before departure. United’s mobile boarding pass option is […]

Travel Industry Takes Beating

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Mar 242011
 

These are not good times for the travel business. Political unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya, the high unemployment in the U.S., severe winter weather in January and February in the U.S., soaring gas prices and now the triple whammy of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan have […]

Continental to Offer Inflight WiFi in 2012

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Mar 232011
 

Continental Airlines plans to roll out WiFi Internet service on flights within the U.S. beginning next year. Continental is working with inflight entertainment provider LiveTV to offer the service via Ka-band. Ka-band is supposed to offer higher transmission speeds for browsing content-rich websites, sending and receiving e-mails and downloading files. […]