Hi, travel friends and happy Saturday! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV in the past few weeks. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that we …
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Weekly Recap
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Airports
What’s Up With All These Half-Naked People At Airports Lately?
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegThe internet is awash with all sorts of things. Things that can make you look twice. Things that may make you laugh embarrassingly. Things that make you go, “What the …
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Hong Kong In January 2022, Hong Kong International Airport, citing fears of the Omicron variant, banned air passengers coming from more than 150 countries and territories from transiting through the …
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New York City
Final List: NYC Hotels Permanently Closed Due To COVID
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegA little more than a year, ago, we posted a list of the (then) 18 hotels in New York City that had permanently closed due to COVID. These weren’t “on …
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Airports
Photos, Video: Opening Date Of Orlando Airport’s New Terminal Announced
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegIn 2017 (has it really been FIVE YEARS already?), Orlando International Airport (MCO) began construction on a $2.75 billion expansion project. When completed, Terminal C of what is now Florida’s …
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Aruba’s tourism officials have announced the island is offering a new Lose Your Baggage Fees promotion that will help pay your luggage fees if you travel to, where else, Aruba. …
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Remember when people from the U.S. waited what seemed like forever until we could go to Canada again? Finally, in August 2021, the gates reopened so we could get our …
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Airlines
First Major Airline Announces Free Starlink WiFi On Its Flights
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegElon Musk has had a lot to crow about this week. He bought Twitter the other day, and now the first major U.S. airline has decided to use Starlink, SpaceX’s …
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Delta flight attendants (FAs) are dancing in the streets tonight – it was just announced that they will soon be paid for boarding time. Until now, FAs did not get …
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Airlines
Delta, Alaska Pilots, FAs Provoking Mask-Wearing Passengers
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegWhen wearing a mask on a plane was law, there was no questioning it. With extremely rare exceptions, there was no choice – if you were age 2 or over, …