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The folks that take the Zagat surveys are all over the map when it comes to airlines — but then I suppose, so are the categories.
These are my personal favorites among categories:

Best Value for the Money (domestic): Southwest

Best Value for the Money (international): Continental

Other “bests”?: JetBlue won for best inflight entertainment — domestic. while Virgin [...]

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Some interesting results from a SmarterTravel survey of 10,000 readers – let’s just say that Southwest is a big favorite with those folks, and to a lesser extent, so is JetBlue.
Southwest won in so many categories (and these are all categories for domestic airlines): Best Value , Best Customer Service, Best Airfare Prices, Best Routes, [...]

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According to the folks at TripAdvisor.com, an increasing number of travelers are interested in 1) saving money and 2) being more environmentally-correct.
But, as anyone who’s ever bought organic fruit at the grocery store knows, these two ideals do not always go hand-in-hand.
But go for it, if you can.
According to this survey of 3,000 U.S. [...]

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The Road Warriors have spoken – and according to Traveler magazine, these are their favorites (and tell me if you agree or not):
Best U.S. Airports:

1. Portland, Oregon
2. Tampa
3. Washington – Reagan

Best International Airports:

1. Singapore
2. Hong Kong
3. Amsterdam

Best U.S. Routes – Airlines with Business/First Class Service:

1. Virgin America
2. Alaska
3. Continental

Best U.S. Routes – Airlines with Single [...]

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Not familiar with the blog, One Mile at a Time? Well, it’s time you were, and thanks, Flying Critic, for being the first to alert us to this gem of a video. (Parodyandson original poster and creator)

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Well, we should find out which state has the very best travel website very soon. Voting closes tonight.
Voting? Sure — this is the “Great Travel Website SHOWDOWN” — brought to you by the intelligent and entertaining folks at Travel 2.0.
Here’s the “Final 8″ state websites — the websites that were in contention as of June:
Ohio [...]

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Did your favorite cities make “The List”? In this case, we’re talking about Travel + Leisure Magazine’s annual readers’ poll of favorites.

A couple of weeks ago, I told you what their top airlines were. Now, let’s start some arguments with the Travel + Leisure “top cities”.
First, their top 10 best cities in the world:
1. Bangkok
2. [...]

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Here’s a great little list — chock full of common sense advice, and maybe a thing or two you wouldn’t think of.
Such as, your alcohol intake?
I know I have broken a few of these common sense rules in the past and regretted it — one of our writers recently put this preflight check list [...]

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