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Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International remained closed to flights through noon CT today after a deluge of rain left some of the airport’s …

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.

· British Airways:
We’ve always wanted to go to Sweden to see where Volvos and all that Ikea furniture comes from, and now it’s a little bit easier thanks to British Airways. The airline has announced plans to serve Gothenburg, and they put the tickets up for sale earlier this week. Things will get underway on November 28, and the flights will operate twice per day. Of course the flights will come and go from London-Heathrow’s Terminal 5, so be sure to stick to carryon luggage only.

· Tiger Airways:
If Taipei is on your travel bucket list, Tiger Airways is hoping to help you get there and to save you some cash doing so. The airline plans to start flying Singapore-Taipei on January 11, and it’ll be the airline’s sixth destination to the greater China area. The new route will set you back about $60 each way through March, but will probably climb a little bit after that. The airline is also increasing their flight frequency to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, and Shenzhen. All the flights will head out from Singapore.

Beginning March 3, Turkish Airlines will begin service to Los Angeles International Airport. The carrier will fly four round-trip flights each …

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SpaceShipTwo, also known as the VSS Enterprise, had made its first flight with a crew aboard, and we’ve got video.
Thursday’s flight marked the first time a captive-carry flight of the spacecraft and it’s mothership, Eve, has included pilots on SpaceShipTwo. The video includes preparation of the [...]

Can you believe that British Airways has had an iPhone app for two years? That puts them with the first of the airlines to have one, even if it was only for iPhones and didn’t have many features; you could only check arrival and departure times and look at timetables.

But a few days ago, British Airways celebrated their two-year anniversary of being in the App store by releasing a seriously upgraded version, in addition to launching apps for Android and Blackberry. The app now includes the ability to check your BA Executive Club account, manage bookings, change flights, access airport and flight information, check out the British Airways Twitter and check in to your flight on the go. The most notable new feature however, is definitely mobile boarding passes.

The number of people traveling to Europe from the United States fell 19 percent in April after a volcanic ash cloud forced thousands of flights to be canceled and cost airlines billions in lost revenue.

Good news and bad news from the world of tarmac rules and unintended consequences. The good news is that there were only 5 tarmac delays of three hours or more in May 2010, down from 34 similar delays last year. The bad news is that many of the people who would have been sitting on the tarmac were instead sitting in the terminal. Because their flights got delayed and then canceled. Predictably.

Two points need to be made here. First, the increase in flight cancellations was as dramatic as the decrease in tarmac delays. May 2009 saw 4,792 cancellations, while May 2010 had a whopping 6,716 canceled flights. Second, this isn’t a matter of “well, passengers are going to sit on the tarmac or sit in the terminal, so we might as well have them sitting in the terminal.” The numbers released by the Department of Transportation show that, on balance, the net delay per passenger was longer by hours and sometimes even days.

Get ready for Labor Day with fare deals from Southwest and American airlines that may inspire you to flee the barbecue and head for the skies. You’ll need to act quickly because both sales end Thursday night. Be sure to check other airlines too; they may be matching these fares.
Southwest Airlines: Sample one-way sale fares, [...]