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Low-cost airline Spirit is upgrading the customer experience with extra legroom seats for an additional price, just like the full-fare airlines. The new, more comfy seats are being installed on planes in June and available for purchase in July across most of the Spirit fleet, with the new seating arrangement on flights starting July 9.
Get ready for clogged roads and airports. AAA predicts more than 45 million of us will be on the move over Memorial Day weekend, the largest number in 20 years, and more than one million more than last year. Not surprisingly, nearly everybody will be traveling by car – more than 39 million of us – also an increase of one million compared with last year, and also a record.
Every year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation tells us which treasured sites are most in danger, because of damage by hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, or simply old age. These endangered sites can be a single building or an entire downtown area, and include examples of how communities are taking the lead to preserve and find
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Things have to be really bad when an airline advises flying into or out of one of its major hubs, and offers free flight changes to another airport. But that’s exactly what United has done with the ongoing melt-down at Newark Airport. United Airlines has slashed more than thirty daily flights at Newark Airport, due
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The best and and most popular lat night TV shows are taped in NYC, and tickets are FREE for all the shows. Here’s how to get them to be in the audience. All the shows have similar rules about attendance, including to prevent the FREE tickets from being sold, and to prevent fights on the
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United Airlines is slashing more than thirty daily flights from Newark Airport, due to a combination of FAA staffing shortages and one of the airport’s three runways out of service for repaving. Newark is a main hub for United, so it is utter chaos, with some passengers stranded by cancelled flights and others delayed for
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Air Canada, WestJet, Porter and Flair are slashing flights to US cities, including New York, Washington, DC, Miami and San Francisco, in response to rising diplomatic tensions, including tariffs and new registration requirements for Canadians staying longer than 30 days.
The first Saturday of May is Free Comic Book Day, when comic book shops nationwide offer free comic books, no purchase required. This year is the 20th anniversary, with greater participation than past years, giving fans an opportunity to discover new titles and genres.
Save the green in your wallet along with our great green globe, with these tips for green living on the cheap at home or on the road, on Earth Day and year-round.
Like most of you I’m already looking forward to the 2025/26 skiing and snowboarding season. There are changes to multi-resort passes, and new lifts and terrain on the horizon. Here’s what we know now.