
On the road: Intelligence to Help You Travel Smarter
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By Joe Brancatelli The Canada Line has opened and slashed mass-transit travel time between Vancouver Airport and downtown Vancouver to 25 minutes. The airport station is in the Link Building between the domestic and international terminals. The train serves nine stops in Vancouver and four in suburban Richmond. Mexicana has shifted its check-in operations at Los Angeles International Airport to the upper/departure level of the Tom Bradley International Terminal. Hertz has signed up Andrews Car Rental, an agency in Sri Lanka , as its franchisee in the island’s…
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By Joe Brancatelli HIGH-TECH TRAVELER Free Wi-Fi in the Air and the Airport: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and that means free Wi-Fi thanks to the folks at Google. The 800-pound gorilla of search engines will sponsor free Wi-Fi at more than 47 airports around the country until January 15. Google will also sponsor free in-flight...

By Joe Brancatelli AIRPORT REPORT Comings, goings, changes and moves: While our attention was diverted by the holidays and the terrorism chaos, a lot of airport-related news came in over the metaphoric transom. Ready for the full report? We’ll go fast. AirTran Airways is bringing its flights back to Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi. AirTran...

By Joe Brancatelli SECURITY WATCH All Airport Registered-Traveler Lanes Are Now Closed: Now you can write a definitive obituary for registered traveler programs. The last two players in the game, Flo and Vigilant , have now closed their airport lanes after Clear, the biggest operator of airport-bypass services, folded in June. Flo, which operated...

DOLLAR WATCH: Surprise! Travel Fees Keep Rising Frontier Airlines has been busy on the fee front. It has raised its first checked bag fee to $20 and its second checked bag fee to $30. It also lowered some of its ticket-change fees. The supposedly fee-free carrier, Southwest Airlines, has invented an optional new charge. For $10, you can get so-called...

By Joe Brancatelli Never let it be said that airlines let a little thing like volcanic ash clouds stand in their way if they think they can find (or resume) a profitable international route to fly. So get out the scorecard, dust off the ash and take note. Alitalia is bringing back its Los Angeles-Rome nonstops on June 5. Virgin America will launch...

By Joe Brancatelli AIRPORT REPORT Follow the Bouncing Airlines: The SkyTeam Alliance is moving to new facilities in two major international airports. At London/Heathrow , for example, SkyTeam is essentially taking over Terminal 4 , British Airways’ former digs. (BA is now in the new Terminal 5.) Three SkyTeam carriers — Delta Air Lines...

Did you know that several Caribbean countries charge a departure tax? That’s right: If you want to leave, you have to pay. Sometimes the departure tax is built…
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(Photo by Hady Khandani/courtesy: Lufthansa) By Joe Brancatelli INTERNATIONAL ITINERARY Lufthansa’s Plans to Dominate Europe’s Skies Advance: Lufthansa is quietly taking the next steps in an audacious plan to dominate the European continent. (Or, more accurately, the skies above the continent.) European regulators have approved Lufthansa’s...

By Joe Brancatelli THE AIRPORT REPORT San Jose Terminal B Concourse Opens Its First Five Gates: Aging San Jose Airport in Silicon Valley is getting a $1.3 billion makeover and here’s the first evidence of the upgrade: Five gates have opened in the new Terminal B Concourse. All the gates will be used by Southwest , which now splits its San...

By Joe Brancatelli Business travelers headed to Tokyo have spent the last generation flying to the distant, charmless Narita Airport . Closer-in (albeit equally charmless), Haneda Airport has been off-limits to virtually all international flights since 1978. But thanks to a recent open-skies agreement between the United States and Japan , Haneda...
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