Tagged With "Judy Chicago"
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Airline scheduling: Hurry up and wait, or run like crazy?
Have you ever stopped to wonder, while planning a trip, how your airline’s schedule was planned? Especially when it seems you’re about to be condemned to a headlong half-marathon across the airport to a flight that leaves all-too-soon, or...
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2014 not a good year for Airline performance
While 2013 was a good year for airlines, performance metrics declined across the board in 2014. The industry performed worse in four key areas — baggage handling, consumer complaints, denied boardings, and on-time arrivals. ...
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Road trip advice: NYC to Chicago
We haven't done a real road trip in years, although we used to enjoy getting in the car with no real obligation except to get to our destination. In October, we're going to a wedding in Chicago, and we'll have time to make a two-way road trip of it....
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Amsterdam on JetBlue? Orlando on Icelandair? Codeshare coming!
JetBlue Airways and Icelandair, which already have an interline partnership, have asked for U.S. government permission for a codeshare agreement. If approved, JetBlue would place its code on seven Icelandair routes from the U.S. to Iceland, and eight...
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Morse Museum: Tiffany and Much More
When it's time to leave Disney World for the Real World, Orlando's Charles Hosmer Morse Museum provides an excellent re-entry point.
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New map shows Roman roads, Metro-style
The roads that linked Rome with the near and distant parts of its empire have been re-imagined as a subway map by a statistics student
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United beefs up overseas schedules for summer
United adds several new cities for next summer and extends summer schedules for others.
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American Writers Museum opens in Chicago
A new museum highlights the work of American authors over a 5-century span.
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Airport competition: What's in it for you?
As is not surprising, none of the world's busiest airports is on the list of those with the most on-time flights...
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United shakes up its award program
United introduces flexible (and potentially higher) award pricing and a new way to qualify for stopovers.
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Norwegian claims it's "fastest-growing airline"
Norwegian nearly doubles its U.S. footprint in a year, and adds more flights to existing routes.
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Robots from Around the World at Chicago Museum
A popular exhibit, enhanced with new players, offers museum visitors a chance to work, play and invent with robots.
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U.S. airlines beef up hubs, stake out new routes
Both mainline and discount carriers are building new presence in key markets, often in direct confrontation with each other.
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Iceland's WOW extends its routes to Chicago
Icelandic discounter WOW adds its first destination in the U.S. midwest, and offers steep discounts to celebrate.
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Delta expands its Seattle empire again
Delta's continuing battle for Seattle adds non-stops to Chicago, the last 'top 10' city it didn't serve from Seattle...but it faces stiff competition on that route.
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Beautiful Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
A rain-forest garden that Samantha calls absolutely amazing (and incredibly hot and muggy). Here, she shares the highlights.
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Top Labor Day destinations listed
Expedia's list of where Americans are going this year is topped by New York and Las Vegas
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40% find hotel bill errors
Chicago survey finds frequent errors, mostly fixed. Be sure to check yours!
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AA adds to its Europe network
American adds seasonal flights to Budapest and Prague and beefs up service to Venice for next year.
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Mexico City due for more U.S. flights, discounters
Six airlines, including Mexican discounters, get airport slots for new routes as Delta and Aeromexico enter a joint venture.
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The Museum of Chinese in America
Jonathan L visits the Museum of Chinese in America, which explores the long history of immigration to this country
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Big boost for JetBlue's London plans
A forced reduction in London service from several U.S. cities by British Air and American may open a new opportunity for JetBlue, which was already lining up for London.
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90 Years of Flight Attendants
Last week marked the 90th anniversary of airline flight attendants. It's a long story!
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Missing links: the routes that aren't
New super-long routes seem to pop up every day, but the OAG has a list of possibles that haven't got an airline's attention yet.
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Virus impacts air freight, too
With most passenger flights canceled the demand for air cargo is pushing up prices, but the effects are uneven.
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Mind Your (Subway) Manners
PHeymont shares a selection of etiquette posters from New York's subway and from around the world.
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New features for Google Flights
New updates to Google Flights allow it to suggest alternate cities and dates, as well as to search by alliance.
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O'Hare upgrade: Runway done, terminals next
Chicago is continuing the updating and expansion of O'Hare as it continues to be one of the busiest airports anywhere.
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Taos: Celebrating American and Native culture and art
Jonathan L takes us on a tour of Taos and Taos Pueblo in New Mexico.
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Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway: A World First
Join PHeymont in a look at the world's first parkway, and one whose grand scheme has survived its hodge-podge of buildings and styles.
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Allegiant plans big expansion; 44 new routes
Allegiant, known for flying small-town vacationers to the sun, is using its growing fleet to add more large cities to its mix
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Feb. 12, 2020: Cancer Survivors Park, Phoenix, Arizona
Samantha shares some facts about the Richard and Annette Bloch Foundation and their Cancer Survivor Parks. This one she visited while in Phoenix, AZ.
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Now Atari's in the hotel game!
New hotels will reprise the games of the early digital age as well as some of the latest. Game on!
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Nintendo popping up at airports
Can't wait to get to the Nintendo theme park? Try one of these pop-up airport lounges...
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United celebrates flying women with all-female crew
There are many women working in aviation these days, but there's room for more. And many of the women now working are not in the high-end jobs, including cockpit crews and mechanics. So, United Airlines recent selection of an all-woman crew to take...
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787 is a cargo shipper's Dreamliner, too
With American Airlines just starting to fly Boeing 787 Dreamliners in passenger service. it comes as a surprise that one of them is being dedicated to cargo service. Boeing is still considering when (or if) to create a 787 freight version as it...
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'World's Best Restaurant' title heads south
El Celler de Can Roca, in Girona, Spain, northeast of Barcelona took the top listing when the year's World's Best 50 Restaurants list was announced June 1st. It's a return to the spot, trading places with Copenhagen's Noma, which held the spot from...
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How loooong does it take to get to your airport?
A USA Today blogger recently published a piece pointing out that only three U.S. cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Honolulu and Chicago Midway) have public transportation that gets to the airport faster than a car, and that in some cities it can take...
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Icelandair adds new route to Montreal
Icelandair continues its route expansion with new service betweeen Keflavik airport in Iceland and Trudeau airport in Montreal. The service will be seasonal starting May 16, 2016 through November 8, 2016, and will operate 4...
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SAS expands flights to the United States
Scandinavian carrier SAS will start three new direct routes to the USA next year, with daily flights between Stockholm and Los Angeles from March 14, and three-times weekly flights between Oslo and Miami, and Copenhagen and Miami,...
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Azul offers "All you can fly" deal for U.S. visitors
Brazil's Azul Airlines, founded by JetBlue founder David Neeleman, has an unusual promotion: Fly to Brazil on Azul or United, and you can buy a pass to fly all over Brazil for 10 or 21 days. The passes cost $299 and $399. There's a small catch:...
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American adds Caribbean, Mexico routes
American Airlines is adding service to more Caribbean points from Los Angeles, Charlotte, Chicago and Dallas, and is restoring direct flights between New York and Caracas. Most of the new routes are aimed at leisure travelers, although one,...
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Southwest's International Sale Ends at Midnight
Southwest is having a good international destinations sale with fares low as $99 one way.Must book by midnight tonight. For travel from August 25 to December 16, 2015 Read More:...
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Chicago's Midway to get a makeover, too
Chicago officials are looking at plans for a makeover for the city's #2 airport, aimed at relieving complaints about inadequate facilities and amenities, and above all ending security backups that have been reported as "mile-long." ...
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Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Named Cheapest Airport in the US
Cheapflights researchers named Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International the most affordable airport to fly out of in the US. The average ticket price was $199 Here is their list of top ten cheapest hubs. 1....
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Buy Now!Huge Sale on United! $150 round trip NYC-LA
Airfarewatchdog posted about this sale on Twitter .Ive seen fares as low as $149.20 for certain dates. These tickets are round trip from NY to LA. Here is an example. Don't wait ,buy now ...
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Chicago's History Museum knows the city's story
When it comes to the great Chicago Fire of 1871, seen in a diorama above, the Chicago History Museum knows all about it: The museum, founded in 1856, was destroyed in the fire and had to start again from scratch—only to burn again in 1874....
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Discounts top all in passenger perks survey
From all the online discussions and articles highlighting the increasingly uncomfortable seating in economy, you'd think that "more room in coach" (as the old American Airlines slogan had it) would be most passengers' first choice of a perk, if...
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Not-so-good day for flying airplanes...
Leaving aside the big stuff—like the Southwest Airlines computer glitch that grounded or delayed hundreds of flights over the weekend—it's been a tough couple of days for flying. Monday, on an Alaska Airlines 737, a credit-card...
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Is United floundering? You decide...
A few weeks ago, United Airlines seemed poised to make some big changes, with a new CEO on-board, Oscar Munoz, from rail giant CSX. Munoz acknowledged that United, one of the Big-3 legacy airlines, has struggled since its 2010 merger with Continental,...