‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Plane to be on Display in Charlotte Museum The US Airways plane that landed in New York City's Hudson River nearly two years ago will soon be on display for visitors at the Carolinas Aviation Museum. Officials at the museum said they are almost...
Continental Reaches Agreement With Flight Attendants Continental Airlines and union leaders reached a tentative deal Tuesday Continental Airlines and union leaders representing 9,500 flight attendants have reached a tentative 20-month...
NYC Breaks Own Tourism Record in 2010 New York City was able to survive the 2009 tourism skid with a record-setting year in 2010. Mayor Michael Bloomberg reported that 48.7 million people visited NY in 2010, beating the previous record of 47...
American Airlines Back in Negotiations with Flight Attendants It's back to the bargaining table for American and its 18,000 flight attendants American Airlines will head back to the bargaining table with its 18,000 flight attendants on...
California Restaurant Month Going on Now Hundreds of restaurants spreading throughout California will be feeding travelers and locals to tasty affordable dishes during the month of January, and some into the first week of February. The areas in...
Lufthansa Invests in Major Cabin Upgrade Lufthansa is kicking off 2011 with some major revamps to many of their planes as 180 aircraft will receive brand new seats. Roughly 32,000 seats will be installed onboard the German carrier's short- and...
Spain Prohibits Smoking in Bars, Restaurants Spain is joining the anti-smoking party now with new laws against smoking in bars and restaurants. The new bans on smoking kill any hopes of establishments allowing smoking. Before the new laws went into...
Five Reasons you Should be Traveling in January While December is often the busiest travel season of the year, it's often followed by one of the slowest travel months of the year, January. While January gets kicked off with a bang for New Year's,...
Top 11 in ’11: Destinations You Must Visit This Year With only a few hours left in 2010, we here at CheapOair are already thinking about where to go in the new year. The travel addicted writers that make up the CheapOair travel blog got together and...
Passenger Punches Teen for Refusing to Turn Off Phone A 68-year-old man was arrested in Boise after he punched a teenage boy aboard a Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday night. According to police, the altercation took place during the landing of a flight...
How to Enjoy a New Year’s Abroad As we say goodbye to 2010 and hello to 2011, those with the heart to travel or Christmas gifts to do so might want to consider spending their New Year's celebration abroad. What better way to bring in a...
Kahn, Father of Airline Deregulation Dies at 93 Alfred E. Kahn, the man credited with ending government control of the airline industry in the 1970s, passed away yesterday at age 93. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under President...
LAN Expects Merger with Brazil’s TAM in Mid-2011 Chile’s LAN Airlines expects a planned merger with Brazil’s TAM Airlines to be approved in mid-2011, according to a top executive. The merger, which was originally announced in August, needs...
Five Things We Learned From Travel in 2010 If there's anything we learned about 2010 from travel, it's that it was a roller coaster year. From publicity stunts, to flight attendants jumping out of airplanes, to snow blizzards, to...
