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Simply, some airlines are better than others for reliability, comfort and customer service, availability of lounges, how easy it is to book, change or cancel a flight, even how friendly it is to family seating and pets. If you are traveling soon, these are the top ten US airlines, for all those reasons, and more.
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Frontier Airlines is celebrating its 29th birthday with $29 one-way fares. The fare deal from the ultra low-cost carrier also includes deep discounts on perks that usually cost much more, including priority boarding and reduced baggage fees. Frontier Anniversary Sale Perks: For an additional $29, the aptly named Perks bundle allows you one carry-on bag,
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Allegiant is celebrating six new routes with a limited-time airfare sale of one-way tickets as low as $40. The new routes launch in November in time for holiday travel, to popular vacation spots including Nashville, Portland, Phoenix and several Florida destinations. Tickets are on sale on the airline website. Flights must be purchased by July
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It’s tough to sleep on a plane. Air New Zealand wants to help with the world’s first bunkbeds in the sky on long-haul flights. It’s called SkyNest and will debut on New York and Chicago routes starting in Fall 2024. It’s designed to allow economy ticket passengers the chance to sleep lying down instead of
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Frugal Over Fifty: There are benefits to getting older, especially discounts for shopping, dining and traveling. More than 100 retailers, supermarket chains, health and wellness chains, airlines, hotels, restaurants and movie theater chains nationwide offer discounts to seniors. Few of these offers are widely promoted. Some don’t even appear on the company website. The top
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JetBlue is expanding flights across the U.S. and the Caribbean, including two new destinations serving the airline’s major hubs, New York, Boston, Orlando and Los Angeles, and launching the new routes with a fare sale. Some flights begin immediately, but even the routes launching in Fall 2023 are available for booking now – and all
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Get unlimited flights for six months with the new Frontier Airlines Go Wild! All-You-Can-Fly pass for just $299, for access to more than 85 destinations in the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. The GoWild! Fall and Winter Pass is valid for unlimited travel from Sept. 2, 2023 through Feb. 29, 2024. With a
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Delta is rated the best US airline for the fifth year in a row, and United is number two. JetBlue, Spirit, Allegiant and Frontier are the worst. After Delta and United, rounding out the top five are Alaska Airlines, American Airlines and Southwest airlines, in that order. That’s according to the annual Best Airlines Report,
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United Airlines plans to fly to 114 international cities this summer, with new destinations and increased service on popular routes between several US cities and Europe and Scandanavia, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and the Middle East. It’s a 25 percent increase in flights versus last year, to meet a pent-up demand for travel outside the
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Once again, Singapore Changi Airport has been voted the World’s Best Airport. This is the 12th time it has been awarded this prestigious accolade, a record number since the award was first given out in 1999. In addition to the World’s Best Airport award, Singapore Changi Airport also received awards for the World’s Best Airport Dining,
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