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The Food Network Takes TV to the Airport with Its First Restaurant

November 13, 2012 at 10:02 AM | by | Comment (1)

It might not be your favorite television channel, but we all have a special place in our hearts for the Food Networkhy. Turn it on, tune in, and just like that you’ve wasted at least an hour of your life. Well officials with the channel’s marketing team must be hoping that the same thing will happen at that airport—at least more deliciously—as their expanding the network’s reach right into the airport.

The very first Food Network Kitchen is now doing its thing at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for all your pre-flight dining needs. The place calls Concourse F within Terminal 3 home, and Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services hopes that their partnership with the Food Network brings instant brand recognition to their latest restaurant.

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Fort Lauderdale Airport is Ready For Some Football

January 28, 2010 at 5:20 PM | by | Comments (0)

This is what greeted us when we landed in Fort Lauderdale in the Virgin America terminal on Tuesday night—Super Bowl banners!

The Super Bowl is not for another week more, but more football fans are expected to flood the Fort Lauderdale-Miami areas this weekend as well as the NFL Pro Bowl takes place here on Sunday.

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Fort Lauderdale Airport Is The New Bunker Hill

November 20, 2009 at 5:09 PM | by | Comments (0)

When the Colonials learned that British forces were planning to send troops out of the city to the surrounding unoccupied hills, they acted. The colonials set up shop at the top of Bunker & Breed's Hill and picked off the redcoats sending them retreating towards Cambridge. Seems to us that FLL is the new Bunker Hill, though we will leave it to you to determine which airline wears what uniform.

By now we all know how Virgin America launched their 10th destination earlier this week at FLL and we have the photo gallery to prove it. However, what really struck us about our jaunt to meet them in FLL was the obvious jockeying for position that was going on there between JetBlue and Virgin America.

The feud deepens, after the jump.

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Jetblue Will Also Fly Direct From SFO To Fort Lauderdale

August 11, 2009 at 4:12 PM | by | Comments (2)

Talk about stealing someone's thunder! This morning, Virgin America announced their plans for twice-daily roundtrips from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale, beginning in September. By this afternoon, JetBlue had countered with their own suspiciously similar news; they'll be flying one daily roundtrip from SFO to FLL also beginning in November.

We can just imagine Jetblue reading the VA news and exclaiming "oh no you didnt!" Jetblue's flights will begin one day ahead of Virgin's, on the 17th of November versus VA's 18th. Tickets are not yet available for Jetblue's FLL flights. Despite Jetblue's jumping on their route and even a day earlier, Virgin America will have more flights, the whole LAX route as well, and not to mention their precious, precious in-flight WiFi.

Perhaps they'll even race each other in the air?

Related Stories:
· Jetblue Intensifies Competition With Virgin America In Fort Lauderdale [FlightGlobal]
· jetBlue announces non stop service from San Francisco To Fort Lauderdale [Gadling]
· Virgin America To Service Fort Lauderdale In November [Jaunted]
· New routes coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo and photoshop work: Jaunted]

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Virgin America To Service Fort Lauderdale in November

August 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM | by | Comments (3)

Who's ready for spring break?!?!!? Okay okay calm down, because you've still got another eight or so months before you can decamp with your whole camp down to Florida's beaches for barely legal fun. But for you snow birds and West Coasters looking to trade the clubs of LA for the clubs of Miami, the partying will start in November as Virgin America has today announced that they'll be flying nonstop from San Francisco and Los Angeles to sunny Fort Lauderdale.

Jaunted thought this would be a VA destination long ago, though we were leaning MIA over FLL.

Tickets went on sale today for flights beginning November 18, and with two direct roundtrips daily from each city, including the only directs between FLL and SFO, we expect them to go like hotcakes. True to their LCC nature—who thinks of them a low-cost carrier anymore, with their WiFi and great service?—the tickets will start out rather cheap. We're talking prices from $99 each way for economy and $499 and up for higher classes (those with the white leather massage chairs).

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Zoom Airlines Coming to Florida, California

December 19, 2007 at 11:00 AM | by | Comment (1)

Zoom Airlines, which already flies between London and JFK, is expanding its low-cost transatlantic flights to the United States. Service between London Gatwick and Fort Lauderdale begins May 22, 2008, and flights between San Diego and Gatwick start June 20.

While Zoom offers super-low one-way fares like many of the UK's LCCs, the company also has the nasty habit of tacking on vague surcharges. A round trip between Fort Lauderdale and Gatwick, for example, is listed at $398, until "departure taxes, fees and fuel surcharges" bring the price up to $750. Still a good deal, to be sure, but a little transparency in the booking process wouldn't hurt.

The Fort Lauderdale flights are also interesting in that some of them stop over in Bermuda, making the Atlantic island easier to reach for flyers leaving London. We're not sure about traffic the other way, though. Are Floridians really clamoring for a chillier golf environment?

Related Stories:
· Zoom Airlines [Official Site]
· Zoom Airlines coverage [Jaunted]
· New Routes coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Wikipedia]

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Travel Snapshot: Seen at the Fort Lauderdale Airport...This Guy

November 21, 2007 at 3:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

We had a connection last week in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (don't ask) and as we deplaned and made our way to the baggage claim in Terminal 3, we saw this public art sculpture. It was so strikingly weird that we snapped a picture right away.

Once we got back in front of a computer, we tracked down the meaning of this thing. Titled "Vendor with a Walkman" the piece was done by late sculptor Duane Hanson in 1990. Here is the official description from the Broward County Cultural Division:

Featuring a seated thirty-something male in a red T shirt and blue pants, listening to a walkman radio/cassette during a break. The installation accessories give additional clues to the narrative of the artwork: toy airplane, various signs and announcement for the shop, janitorial supplies... Hanson again presented a slice of Americana in the most unexpected locale.

Interestingly enough, the picture on the Broward County website shows the vendor with a Miller Lite hat. Our picture has the guy wearing some other sort of trucker hat. Looks like not much has changed since the 90s here. Oh well, we guess it's less shocking than sheep in formaldehyde.

Have your own travel snaps? Drop 'em in the Jaunted Flickr Pool, and we'll highlight the best.

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· Travel Snapshots coverage [Jaunted]
· Jaunted Photo Pool [Flickr]

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Airport WiFi: Free Signals from Boise to JFK

November 6, 2007 at 2:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

Contribute your airport wireless report by leaving it in comments, uploading your airport photo to Jaunted Flickr Photo Pool, or via email, and we will add it to our U.S. Airport Wireless map.

We put out the word for your airport WiFi tips, and you haven't disappointed. Our guide to airports that offer up free 'net access is growing almost every day.

Today's round of updates includes Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, a bigger airport than we're used to seeing on our map. We've also added some smaller airfields, including Albuquerque and Boise (pictured).

Also, we heard about the free WiFi at Delta's Crown Room club at JFK's Terminal 3. Park yourself near Gate 6, and you should be able to pick up the signal leaking out of the VIP lounge for free.

Related Stories:
· Best US Airports for WiFi [Jaunted]
· Airport WiFi coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: richmanwisco]

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