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United, WestJet and Copa Airlines Plan New Routes to Here and There

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.

· WestJet:
If you haven’t had the opportunity to check out what WestJet has to offer, this may change in 2012 as they bring new flights down to the nifty fifty. Of course they already have cheap flights to here, there, and everywhere in and around Canada, but now they're prepping to take on New York-LaGuardia.

Live, in-flight television will be yours to enjoy on seven new nonstop flights between NYC-LaGuardia and Toronto beginning June 4. A couple weeks later they’ll be boosting the flight frequency up to eight flights, so they definitely mean business when it comes to serving the flying public between New York City and Toronto. They even just launched a codeshare deal with Delta, so you can continue on aboard Delta until your final destination.

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Canada Gets Some Spinoff Airline Action Too, Thanks to WestJet

A new airline might just be headed around the Great White North before too long, as WestJet eyes the possibility of sending some new planes into the skies as part of a brand new airline. Apparently they’re sick of losing business to Air Canada and Porter Airlines, so it might just be time to fight back.

By this time next year, the plans could be in place for WestJet’s new regional airline. Head honchos at the carrier are already explaining that such a move would just be the next step WestJet needs, and that it would be a “natural evolution.” They haven’t made any decisions or placed any orders just yet, but they’re already thinking about ordering up some of those snazzy Bombardier Q400 turboprops to fly into smaller cities and markets.

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It's Condor, Alaska and WestJet Starring in This Week's New Route News

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.

· Alaska Airlines:
This week’s big new route winner—at least to us—has to be the new options from Alaska Airlines. They’re sending their eskimo-tailed planes to two new spots beginning sooner than later. Up first is a nonstop option between Seattle and Kansas City starting up in March of 2012.

Next is a new option between San Jose and Palm Springs, but this is just a seasonal thing. This flight runs throughout the winter before taking the summer off beginning around June. Alaska is ready to celebrate the new options, so they’ve got both routes on sale for between $89 and $99 each way depending on when you’re headed.

· Porter Airlines:
Residents of the Big Apple aren’t too far from some great skiing this season, as Porter Airlines is bringing a new nonstop option between Newark-Liberty and Mont Tremblant, Quebec beginning right before Christmas. Sure it’s not Aspen or Park City, but it’s definitely a lot closer and in the same time zone. The flights begin on December 22 and continue to do their thing through the April 5. Expect plenty of fun and service both on the ground and in the air, as Porter Airlines is all about customer service—including free booze!

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REDjet, WestJet and Alaska Airlines Lead This Week's New Route News

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.

· Alaska Airlines:
Even though their name has the world Alaska in it, Alaska Airlines seems to love Hawaii just as much as their own home. This week the airline announced that they’ll be flying nonstop between San Diego and Honolulu beginning on November 17. They’ll be using Boeing 737s on this route, and this goes along pretty well with their nonstop service between San Diego and Maui that they started up last year. Hawaiian Airlines already flies a similar route between these two cities, so maybe a little fare war can get us to paradise with a little money left over for a Mai Tai or two.

· Volaris:
The time to head to Mexico might be right now if you call Las Vegas or Los Angeles home. Volaris is launching new daily nonstop flights between those two spots and Mexico City, so if you’ve always wanted to see a little more of the real Mexico and less Americans lounging on the beach—this might be a good time. The flights run each day of the week through the end of August, and after that we’re not sure if they’ll decide to change things up. We’re still waiting for Volaris to bring some cheap flights to more parts of the country, but for now, we’ll take what we can get.

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Simple Plan Sings About Airports and Jet Lag in a New Music Video

It might not be the latest Lady Gaga or Britney download, but we’re pretty big fans of Simple Plan’s latest single Jet Lag. Honestly it’s probably not going to win any Grammy awards, but what we like about it is the music video, which we stumbled across it during channel surfing in France.

The music video features a cameo by Toronto Pearson International Airport along with many WestJet airplanes—we’re thinking they chipped in a little bit of cash—as the band sings about the true pains of having an intercontinental relationship. All of this time zone trauma has caused the lead singer’s heart to be so jet lagged, and that’s pretty much the theme throughout the song.

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How the Airlines are Celebrating April Fools' Day

Southwest begins time travel flights:
Want to take a trip? Not to Florida, silly, but 1971? It can be done on Southwest, if you believe their April Fool's Day joke. According to their blog, "Scientist Reginald Aloysius McGillicutty has been secretly working in an undersea hangar for nearly twenty years," and he's managed to disrupt the time-space continuum in order to allow Southwest service into past decades.

We love the video above, because in all its awkwardness we see the fun spirit of April Fool's. On the other hand, it's pretty funny that only four people want to go back to 1971 and if they did indeed, their flight attendant would vanish (as she wouldn't have been born).

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Head to Denver, Maui, and Turks and Caicos on This Week's New Routes

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 Airlines:
They’re still busy painting lots of planes, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have time to deal with other stuff too. United Airlines just brought back a flight that has been gone for quite some time, and we’re glad to see it as an option. There’s now nonstop flights between San Francisco and New Orleans—things were discontinued not too long after Hurricane Katrina. The new flight began yesterday, and assuming all goes well, we’re thinking that it will be sticking around for quite some time.

· Alaska Airlines:
Bad news for fans of the “Nerd Bird,” as Alaska Airlines is discontinuing nonstop service between San Jose and Austin as of May 6, but at least it will continue through this year’s SXSW festival. It’s not all bad though, as this apparently has allowed for a few more flights to somewhere even better. As of June, both San Jose and Oakland will get daily service—now it’s just a few times a week—to Kahului, Maui. We guess with the good comes the bad.

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Plenty of New Routes This Week From Copa, Lufthansa, Air Canada, and More

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.

· Lufthansa:
We can’t resist the Airbus A380, and still we get excited every time we hear that it’s heading somewhere new. Well Lufthansa is the latest airline to throw its weight around with the big bird. The largest commercial plane in the sky is planning to start up service between San Francisco and Frankfurt beginning this May. In Lufthansa’s configuration, there is room for about 526 passengers, so upon arrival just be prepared to stand in the line for immigration for quite a long time.

· Virgin America:
This is more of a route removal than a new route, but where one city is losing service another town is getting more planes. Virgin America is calling it quits on Canada, as they’re planning to pull their flights from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Toronto as of April 6. Apparently the demand just wasn’t there, and they’re going to “indefinitely suspend” things. That means more planes for Dallas-Ft. Worth, as this year’s Super Bowl city will see a third round-trip flight per day from both of the aforementioned west coast cities. Kind of a bummer, eh?

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WestJet is Ready and Willing to Jab You in the Thigh with an Epi-Pen

People die on flights all the time. In fact, it just happened today. Thankfully, the passengers deaths are usually due to natural causes or a heart attack or other condition, and not because of a tragic crash. Still, you don't want to be a number with that fate, and so Canadian carrier WestJet is taking extra precautions for your health.

By the end of spring 2011, WestJet will have the newest design of Epi-Pens in all flight first aid boxes, just in case a passenger suffers a severe allergic reaction at 35,000 feet.

This is good news, and pretty easy extra little endeavor for WestJet to undertake, we'd bet. However, there's still no word on what airlines are doing to assist the great number of travelers who are deathly allergic to economy class.

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Mickey Mouse Flies WestJet This Month

If you’re looking to head down to visit Mickey and friends this month, you might want to think about hitching a ride with WestJet.

The airline that goes everywhere and anywhere within Canada is also pretty good about getting people to Orlando and Southern California, and they are planning something pretty special for those heading to Walt Disney World and Disneyland.

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WestJet Offers Up Free Flights with a Canadian Contest

WestJet, which is kind of like the closest thing Canada has to JetBlue, is an airline with cheap fares, lots of routes, and a solid specialty in north-of-the-border fun. If you've never flown WestJet before, well, the airline wants to give everyone a chance to test them out, so they’re offering up a Fly Free Contest over the next few weeks.

WestJet has done this for the past few years, and they’re teaming up with newspapers in major Canadian cities to reach potential winners. All you need to do is grab a paper between now and October 20 and collect the game pieces. It’s kind of like that McDonald’s monopoly game we’re all guilty of playing—even though we don’t want or need that supersized diet coke.

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New Routes Will Take You Everywhere from Des Moines to Reykjavik

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.

· Delta:
Move over Iceland Express, as there’s a new route that will whisk passengers to and from Reykjavik from the New York City area. Their fares might not be as cheap, but Delta is starting service between JFK airport and Reykjavik starting on June 1, 2011. We realize it’s a little early to start celebrating this new option, but it’s the first US carrier to serve this route so it’s kind of a big deal. Hopefully this will create a little bit of a price ware with Icelandair, and allow travelers to visit the Blue Lagoon for a lot less than it cost in 2010.

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