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Happy Restaurant Week, NYC! Win a Foodie Fantasy With Jetblue

Happy Restaurant Week, New Yorkers! If there's a time when it's really, superbly awesome to be in New York and have an appetite for variety, it's during the biannual Restaurant Week. A feeding frenzy conducted formally, the celebration of gourmet restaurants actually lasts for two weeks— this time from January 25 to February 7—and features prix-fixe menus at a selection of the city's top eateries.

For the second time, Jetblue is getting in on the game by hosting a contest to treat non-New Yorkers to the delights of Restaurant Week. Enter their "More to Love Sweepstakes" for a chance to win round-trip airfare to NY on Jetblue plus two nights at a hotel (looking like either the brand-spanking-new Ace Hotel or the Hilton), and one paid-for meal at your choice of these three famous restaurants: Morimoto, Blue Water Grill or A Voce.

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Kayaks, Surfboards, and Antlers: How to Check 'Special Item' Luggage

Honestly we have enough trouble dealing with checking just one piece of luggage, so it’s difficult for us to imagine dealing with anything unique at the check-in counter. Surprisingly, airlines are pretty welcoming when it comes to your oversized bags, sports equipment, musical instruments, and anything else you might need to bring with you. However, it’s going to cost you a few extra bucks.

If you’ve got a big track and field meet coming up or just want to bring a nice present to Bruce Jenner, no need to worry about bringing your javelin on the airplane—it’s totally cool. It will need to be checked—no carrying it on please—and if you’re flying on Continental Airlines it will cost you the same as any other checked bag. American Airlines isn’t as friendly to javelin throwers, and they’ll charge $100 in addition to their usual checked bag fees. Vaulting poles aren’t allowed on American, but United will take up to two poles in a case for $175—at that point it might be worth just driving.

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How To Cancel Your Airline Ticket Within 24 Hours

We’ve all purchased airfare without really thinking, but sometimes the buyer’s remorse is just a little too much. Despite the chance at an incredible fare there’s always something that makes it seem not worth it—like hitting the limit on your credit card. Thankfully there are still a few airlines that allow you to cancel your reservation within 24 hours. We’ve rounded up some of the policies below to ensure that you can fire first and ask questions later.

· Delta
As long as your make your purchase through Delta or Expedia—that means no Orbitz or other booking engines—you can cancel your ticket up to midnight the following day. Just make sure that your trip is originating from the United States, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, or Canada. You don’t even need to call them, because you can just head to their website and take care of everything.

More ways to get your money back after the break...

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Jetblue Enjoys Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay

After a 2009 full of focusing on the east coast (Boston, what what!), Jetblue is getting back in the west coast game by turning up the heat at SFO-San Francisco International Airport. This week, they've bulked up on existing routes from SFO, perhaps as a raised eyebrow threat to competitor Virgin America, who look to make SFO their own cozy little home with the renovated Terminal 2 later this year.

Anyways, Jetblue is renewing their love for the Golden Gate with one more daily flight each to Boston and New York, and two more daily flights down to Long Beach. That's four new flights out of SFO, bringing the total number of daily Jetblue SFO flights up to 11, since you'll catch them also flying SFO to Austin and Fort Lauderdale. And here it feels like just yesterday that Jetblue was adding flights out of Chicago...oh how time flies when you're having fun!

Related Stories:
· Jetblue Expands In San Francisco Today [Jetblue]
· Jetblue expands in San Francisco [Today in the Sky]
· Jetblue coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Jetblue Route Map]

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JetBlue Is Thinking About Adding A Bit Of Orange To Their Planes

Back in October, JetBlue gave us a little thrill (we’re easy to please) by updating their livery and adding a new paint scheme into the fleet. Blueberries—the new tailfin design—has been slowly added into the mix over the last few months, and we even got a chance to see it in the wild back around Thanksgiving at T5 at JFK. It looked snazzy.

The painters responsible for updating all the JetBlue planes won’t have too much rest going into 2010, because the airline is now planning to add another new design to several of their planes. However, instead of hiring an expensive graphic designer, the airline is looking into some homegrown talent. They’ve asked their employees to put pen to paper to design something creative for the New Year.

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Around 15 Airlines Sign Up To Make Biofuels Less A Dream, More A Reality

It’s been almost two years since Richard Branson first praised the benefits of coconuts as a possible alternative to fly his planes around the globe. Since then, there have been many different biofuel blends and several successful test flights. Companies are certainly trying their best to become the ExxonMobil of green fuel, and the marketing departments behind camelina and jatropha are trying to illustrate while their oily plants are the best. One company, AltAir Fuels, is having a little bit of success with it all, and they plan to partner with about 15 airlines to provide some green juice.

Airlines like Air Canada, Delta, JetBlue, and US Airways have all agreed to think about purchasing up to 750 million gallons of eco-friendly jet fuel from AltAir Fuels. Their magic ingredient of choice is camelina—sorry jatropha fans. The green travel juice will be made in Washington, and the company is hoping that 100 million gallons of fuel will be made each year, starting in 2012.

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Jaunted's 2009 Airline In-Flight WiFi Guide

Let 2009 be known as the year that the airlines embraced the internet. Whether through Facebook and Twitter or web-only specials, they really put themselves out there. But the most revolutionary change to come was the proliferation of In-Flight WiFi. The seeds of connectivity were planted in 2008 and they budded this year, but 2010 will see the bloom and boom of airlines with WiFi. Already we have eleven carriers that are either already online or signed up to start very soon. And that's not counting the international airlines with their grand long-haul plans.

Let's look at the status of the WiFi on each of these airlines, but first you'll need to know a quick bit about the major providers of in-flight WiFi, and there are three:
· Gogo, a terrestrial-based service that relies on signal towers on the ground. This is the most popular choice.
· Row 44, a satellite-based service that allows for uninterrupted browsing, even over bodies of water.
· LiveTV, used only by Jetblue and sadly lagging behind with extremely limited internet access.

And now, without further ado, Jaunted's 2009-2010 Airline In-Flight WiFi Status Update...

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Jetblue Is Giving Away A Year Of Free Travel With An All-You-Can-Jet Pass

While we patiently await the return of the promised All-you-Can-Jet Pass for 2010, there's already a way you can get a jumpstart on the unlimited travel action by becoming a fan of Jetblue on Facebook.

Mashable points out that although Jetblue has an impressive Twitter follower crowd of over 1.5 million, their Facebook numbers are sad at 73,000. To fix this, the airline has launched a Facebook-only sweepstakes, whereby you become their fan and enter for a chance to win free flights, free vacations, or an All-You-Can-Jet Pass for one year. One year? That's quite a bit different from their one month offering with the original AYCJ pass. Will the one year pass be an option for 2010?

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Jetblue Opens A Store In New York's Trendy Meatpacking District

What Is this? The days of Pan Am and Braniff when airlines were cool and walking down the street carrying a flight bag (which we now call "retro") made you look like a jetsetter? Well, what we're about to say comes sort of close to that: Jetblue has opened a store in New York City's trendy Meatpacking District. It won't be there forever because it's what's called a holiday pop-up shop, but the main idea is to promote that clever ad campaign they're doing: the Flyer's Collection. Only, there's nothing for sale inside.

We passed the store completely by accident last night; while making the short walk from The Maritime Hotel down the Apple Store, we noticed the new storefront at 50 Ninth Ave and it stopped us in our tracks. The curious pedestrians out holiday shopping at the designer shops in the district will no doubt do a double-take at the mannequin wearing the suitcase suit, and the store is full of physical samples of the other "Flyer's Collection" products, like the "knee jockey" and "Sounds of Jetblue" CDs. But then, if you look a little closer, you notice the small text down at the corner of the window: "The products shown are fictional and not offered for sale."

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Jetblue Suggests Buying A Suitcase Suit To Avoid Baggage Fees On Other Airlines

Do you know what happens when you're bored on a Sunday night and avoiding work? You stumble across things like Jetblue's Facebook page, where they've just launched their own faux-Skymall ad campaign of sorts.

It's called the "Flyers Collection," like an upscale selection of duty-free products, which you'll need if you choose to fly with "the other guys," in the words of Jetblue. Keep in mind that these are joke products and not actually for sale, but the concept behind some of them is so timely that we wouldn't be surprised to see a comedian break out with the "Extrago Sherpa Suit" to make a point about baggage fees.

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Jetblue Will Bring Back Successful 'All-You-Can-Jet' Pass Next Year

Roll up your sleeping mat and begin hoarding the snack-size bags of chex mix—Jetblue has kind of announced that a second wave of the now infamous All-You-Can-Jet Pass is coming in the future.

Yesterday, during the Jetblue corporate retreat at West Point, a few veteran AYCJers were invited to talk about their experiences using the pass, which got them all the Jetblue flights they could handle between September 8 and October 8 for only $599 (plus some international taxes, if you flew out of country). Although it seems like just yesterday that the pass ended and the #AYCJ tweets petered out on Twitter, Jetblue execs are already prepping for the remix by promising a free, second AYCJ pass to these seven founding All-You-Can-Jetters.

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The Winners And Losers of the Zagat 2009 Airline Survey

The newest Zagat Guide on airlines is up. 5,900 fliers averaging 17 flights per year were polled about 16 domestic and 66 foreign airlines. After all the results were tallied the major US winners - rated on comfort, service, and food - turned out to be Virgin America and low cost carrier Midwest Airlines. If you're just flying coach your best bet is apparently JetBlue, which tallied up 19 out of 30 points. And if your top concern for some reason is your luggage, Southwest should be your airline of choice. Full results are posted at the Zagat site.

In contrast to when we covered this survey two years ago, travelers also found room for some grudging compliments: "consumers feel some marginal improvement in comfort and service." That's actually fair given how airlines have been consistently improving at last their outward numbers. We never tire of telling you that civilian aviation is the safest it's ever been, while September had the highest on-time rate since 2003.

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