2025/26 Ski & Snowboard Season New Developments
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.
2025/26 Ikon Pass Buyer’s Guide
The current ski/snowboard season is still underway, but passes for next season are on sale now at the lowest prices of the year. There are big changes changes to the Ikon Pass for to this pass next season, with new resorts added, one leaving, and the end of the Base Pass Plus, plus price increases. Here are the details.
Avelo $39 Fares to Introduce New Routes
Avelo Airlines is launching seven new routes with one-way fares as low as $39. The low-cost airline also adds Chicago O’Hare to its growing East Coast network serving mostly smaller cities often under-served or ignored entirely by “big three” Delta, United and American.
Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Program Launches at Sesame Place Philadelphia
Sesame Place Philadelphia is the first theme park in North America to launch the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower program, launching in time for Autism Acceptance Month in April. Also known as the Sunflower, it is a global initiative designed to support children and adults with non-visible disabilities and conditions, including children with autism and military veterans
Read more
Frontier Adds Friends Fly Free Deal to New Perks, $39 Fares
Frontier is making a blatant pitch to customers of rival Southwest who are unhappy about its new checked baggage fees and other changes. Frontier is promoting it free perks, which include free carry-on, free seat selection and free flight changes and fares as low as $39, in a cheeky new ad campaign called “Your New Love”, which promotes “divorce your old airline deal”.
Southwest Ending Free Checked Bags Policy
Southwest Airlines is joining the rest of the airline industry and charging checked bag fees. No more “bags fly free” – it’s signature advertising phrase – after May 28, 2025, except for top tier frequent flyers.
UK Now Requires New Travel Document for International Visitors
International visitors to the United Kingdom, including from the United States and Canada, now require a new travel document called an ETA. You won’t be allowed entry without it, but you can get one easily online before you travel.
Record Travel Expected Over Holidays
Get ready for crowded roads, airports and cruise ship terminals for the Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-New Year’s holidays – as many as 3 million more than last year’s holiday season. AAA projects a record 119.3 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home between Sat., December 21 and Wed., January 1. This year’s domestic travel projection is a bit more than the previous record set in 2019.
Thanksgiving Travel 2024 to Set Record
AAA projects nearly 80 million of us will be on the road, in the air and on the seas. That’s an increase of 1.7 million people compared to last year and exceeds pre-Pandemic levels. So be prepared for traffic jams and long check-in lines at airport and cruise ship terminals.
New Airline Refund Rules for Cancelled and Delayed Flights
New Federal rules now in effect require airlines to pay you back automatically and immediately within seven business days, with a full refund to whatever method you used to pay – cash, credit card or frequent flyer miles. No more haggling. No more vouchers.