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A new partnership between JetBlue and United Airlines will allow frequent fliers to earn and use points on both airlines. United and JetBlue will also offer each others’ flights for sale on their websites and swap slots at New York area airports. Here’s what you need to know: The new partnership deal is being called
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Epic Pass for the 2025/26 ski and snowboard season is on sale now at the lowest price of the year, and include free passes for friends and family. Prices increase on May 26, and you lose the free passes.
Indianapolis is justifiably famous for the Indy 500 race every Memorial Day weekend. It’s the oldest race in the USA – 2025 is the 109th running – and one of the most famous races in the world. But Indianapolis has a much more to offer, during Race Week or anytime of the year. Here’s why Indianapolis is on our list of where to go next.
One of the best things to do on a warm spring or summer day is a picnic in the park. Here are the best picnic spots in NYC’s Central Park, whether you bring your own food or purchase take-out at one of the local cafes, and the rules and restrictions for barbecuing or grilling.
Once again, Frontier Airlines is offering its all-you-can-fly unlimited passes, one for annual travel, the other just for summer. There’s also a monthly unlimited pass. All you pay are taxes, fees, and a one penny processing fee for each flight.
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.
Avoid the tourist traps and suburban mall chains and get native NYC vibe and flavor, along with value for your restaurant dollar, at these local choices, where celebrity-spotting is included on the menu.
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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