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Coming to Oahu!

Looking for a fishing tour in Oahu!

Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 02:25:06 AM

Mexicana stops flying (Mexicana ceasing All Operations At MIDNIGHT EST)

Debt-ridden airline Mexicana de Aviacion is halting all operations, Mexico's transportation secretary said Friday. Juan Francisco Molinar Horcasitas told reporters in Mexico City the struggling carrier will cease all flights and other activity as of midnight Friday night. Mexico's largest airline filed for bankruptcy protection in Mexico and the United States on Aug. 2 while it sought to reorganize itself. Three days later it announced that it had stopped selling tickets and then suspended some flights. In court filings, the company said it had been badly hit by the swine flu outbreak in 2009 that scared away travellers for months...

Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 02:25:06 AM

Hipmunk's dazzling new view of flight search (for you frequent flyers)

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Adam Goldstein was a whiz-kid MIT engineering student with an enviable network of tech contacts and a decade of industry experience. He also had a lofty dream: To reinvent Internet flight search. So he called up his old friend, Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, and embarked on a summer project. It culminated in this week's launch of Hipmunk, which drew instant acclaim for its new approach to an old but still daunting search challenge: matching travel shoppers with flights. Hipmunk arranges flights on a colorful, user-friendly grid, letting browsers evaluate their options in a blink. Just days...

Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 02:25:06 AM

Airport Security in Boston: Perverts or Mere Child Predators?

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I travel a lot for work. It has been that way for the past dozen years and will not change any time soon. Although I have probably been to just about every major city in the US, I had not been to Boston in decades until I went on a family vacation this past week. Flying into Boston was fine, but flying out of Boston's Logan's airport was a shock. For the first time I encountered the body scanners that are being adopted soon nationwide. In essence, you are pushed toward a black screen, told to put your hands above...

Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 02:25:06 AM

You'll pony up more for that passport as State Department raises fees

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Vacationing outside the U.S. is about to get more expensive -- and it has nothing to do with the cost of an airline ticket. Beginning Tuesday, the price of acquiring a new passport book for adults will jump from $100 to $135, while the fee for renewing one will increase from $75 to $110.

Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 02:25:06 AM

ACLU issues travel alerts for Arizona

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Dozens of affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union have issued travel alerts for people heading to Arizona this Fourth of July holiday weekend -- the group's latest effort to condemn the state's new immigration law.

Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 02:25:06 AM

Oil spill visits get partisan.( More fascist tactics from Dems)

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Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) wanted to fly 10 lawmakers down to the Gulf of Mexico to see the damage caused by BP’s gigantic oil spill first hand. House Democrats said no. Scalise’s trip was rejected for a variety of bureaucratic and logistical reasons, but it has also opened a new vein of partisan squabbling over who should be allowed to arrange a trip to view the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. .....But Democrats have heard from the Department of Homeland Security, which has asked that Congress organize trips through committees of jurisdiction, to avoid having to cater to...

Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 02:25:06 AM

New York Controversy: A crackdown on "no-tels" (Vacation Rentals)

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Hundreds of New Yorkers, like others nationwide, have been making a few extra dollars by using sites such as AirBnB, Crashpadder, Roomorama, and Craigslist to sublet pullout sofas, living rooms, and whole apartments. But that may end soon. This week, New York state senators vote on a bill that would make it illegal for any homeowner or renter to sublet for less than a month. The new law would be a blanket ban on short-term rentals no matter how ethical the renter is. (It's always been illegal to violate co-op leases and condominium bylaws.) This proposed law is bad news...

Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 02:25:06 AM