Sometimes it’s hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we’ve complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.

· United:
While United isn’t spilling the beans—or potatoes—just yet it sounds like the carrier is planning to link Washington-Dulles with Dublin beginning next May. Sure it might not bring the same kind of sprit that Aer Lingus does—with their green, Shamrocked planes and all—but a new international option out of our nation’s capital is always a good thing. Don’t expect crazy airfare deals to celebrate the new route, but a little healthy competition might help everyone out a bit.

· Frontier Airlines:
Along with in-flight cookies, Frontier Airlines should be known for sending plenty of folks from Kansas City around the nifty fifty, as this week they’re boosting their domestic network out of KC. The furry-animal-tailed airline is linking Kansas City with Houston as of this week everyday of the week. That’s not all either, as Frontier is also doing Kansas City to Las Vegas each day of the week except for Saturdays. We guess there’s just too much going on in Sin City to come home on a Saturday. ]]> kjb 2011-11-04T10:00:15-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/3/7/3720/10670

I see dead people...in Times Square! Leave it to one of the world's biggest tourist meccas to attract one of the world's biggest thanatourist (thanatourism = death tourism) draws to it: New York City is showing Pompeii's ash casts of the victims of the volcano eruption some 2,000 years ago with an exhibit at Discovery Times Square, in partnership with Alitalia.

The event, which opened a few days ago and has no set end date, showcases 250+ artifacts from the old Roman city, which were buried and preserved under layers of volcanic stone and ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Alongside pottery and whatnot will be a selection of the "bodies" found at the excavation site, which are injection molds of hollow spaces left deep within the ash by the long-gone bodies of the volcano's victims. The bodies, in their contracted and huddled shapes, show the final torturous moments of the citizens of the once-great town on the Bay of Naples. ]]> JetSetCD 2011-03-07T15:31:38-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/9/20/05514/9665

Last week, the Pope boarded his private Alitalia plane, a Boeing 777, for a quick trip to the UK. But before he could even get off the ground, one of his advisors had already begun controversy around the trip, by likening London's major Heathrow Airport to "a third-world country." The man who put his foot in his mouth is Cardinal Walter Kasper, the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Here's the thing: he didn't even accompany the Pope on the trip to London, but he stayed behind in Rome after making the remarks, using his gout as an excuse.

The remarks were made during an interview he gave to German magazine Focus, and the exact quote is this: "When you land at Heathrow you think at times you have landed in a Third World country." He apparently also hated on British Airways a bit. ]]> JetSetCD 2010-09-20T10:34:51-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/10/8/165642/030

If you know anything about Venice, you know that it is a city built on water, so it's quite fitting that the perfect location for plane spotting is onboard a boat. But not just any boat, we're talking about the water taxis between Venice's Marco Polo Airport and Venice proper. The airport sits on marsh land right on the coast, while the tourist-filled portion is out in the middle of the lagoon.

Going between the airport and the city of Venice therefore means taking either a private boat or the Alilaguna Waterbus right underneath the paths of arriving and departing flights. While you rock on the waves of other speeding water taxis passing by, you can look up at airplanes from carriers like Alitalia and other major carriers. Smaller LCC airlines like Jaunted personal favorite Germanwings sadly won't be found here, but at Treviso Airport. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-10-08T17:45:28-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/1/20/165842/501

· Remember when President Barack Obama first flew on Air Force One (elect) and ate a cheeseburger? Well, The National Geographic Channel has a clip of that and will be showing it in their "On Board Air Force One" special which airs on Sunday, January 25 at 8pm EST/PST. [National Geographic Channel]

· Virgin America Has New Food Menu: More munchies, more wraps and salads and don't forget the made-to-order shaken Margaritas, Cosmos or Mojitos await you on Virgin America [Official Site]

· Spank Your Children on Plane, Get Arrested Under Patriot Act: Are airlines abusing the Patriot Act? This woman spanked her misbehaving children, then hurled profanities at a flight attendant as well as a glass of tomato juice. Now she's pissed she got arrested for a terrorist act. Bad children? Yes. Mother with a nasty temper? Yes. Terrorist? Hmmm....[LA Times]

· Alitalia Still Striking: Despite being privatized, Alitalia workers can't seem to give up their penchant for striking. This latest batch only caused moderate impact on flights and flight delays. [Forbes] ]]> juliana 2009-01-20T17:07:47-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/1/15/42140/1341

Our favorite on-again, off-again airline Alitalia might be selling cheap airfares this week, but they're obviously still trying hard to scrape together a few more euros to keep fuel in the tank.

The latest news out of the Alitalia camp is that they're holding an auction to sell off 163 paintings that used to hang in their aircraft, apparently so that passengers would have "beautiful things" to look at.

Nobody's sure how much cash the paintings will bring in but some of them are from well-known modern Italian artists and are thought to be valuable. (Sounds like Alitalia's decadent spending starting way back in the 1960s.) We're less worried about Alitalia's obvious money problems than the fact that no other airline we know ever made such an effort to pretty up the cabin for us. Are we missing out on something beautiful?

Related Stories:
· Alitalia-Owned Artwork to Go Under the Hammer [Reuters]
· Our Top Five International Airfare Sales of the Moment [Jaunted]
· Alitalia Coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: courgettelawn] ]]> amandak 2009-01-15T09:03:25-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/1/14/25349/8220

Since winter is only half over, we've decided that what everyone needs right now is a hardcore international escape. If your desire for the tropics has been replaced with a desperation to just get far, far away, then have we got the deals for you.

Taking a cue from some of our stories in the last few days, we've rounded up our Five Favorite Airfare Sales with a focus on globetrotting. There will be no mentions of commuter flights to Ypsilanti or Sulfur Springs this week, so sit back and book a serious sojourn already. Any tips on what you want to see more of or less of? Let us know.]]> JetSetCD 2009-01-14T09:15:48-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/