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Aloha Airlines; Alltop; Megabus & Boltbus from New York

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Good morning travelers! How was your weekend? Did you go anywhere fun? I took part in the largest wave in baseball history. The Coliseum packed them in for the Dodgers-Red Sox exhibition game. Are you itching to go to a baseball game? Here are some round-trip airfares to some great baseball stadium destinations.

Airlines | Are you scheduled for an Aloha Airlines flight this week? Today is their last day of service except for certain flights in Hawaii, Orange County (SNA) and Oakland (OAK). If you are scheduled for travel after March 31, Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines are helping Aloha passengers complete their travel.

Both Hawaiian and United have specific Q&A pages regarding help for Aloha Airlines passengers. Some travelers will need to fly standby while others are urged to buy new tickets and seek a refund from Aloha Airlines. The situations are different depending on the travel dates of your ticket.

Travel websites | Check out the new Travel.Alltop.com, it could very well make my RSS reader obsolete. They’re calling it “single page aggregation” — the Top 5 stories from “all the top” websites on a given category. Devour 200-plus travel topics in a single bite. Want more news? Check out the Alltop directory for topics you have to choose from. Alltop is adding more topics every week.

Bizarre | Gridskipper reports that a fetus was found in the bathroom of a Continental Airlines flight between New York and Houston. The FBI is trying to figure out if an illegal in-flight abortion was performed. [Update: A 14-year-old girl delivered a stillborn fetus.]
Cheap bus travel | $1-$3 bus travel rolls out on the East Coast. Last week the Boltbus launched $3 one-way service between New York and D.C. and Megabus announced that it’ll open its $1 routes from New York to Toronto, Boston, Atlantic City and Philadelphia starting May 30, 2008. [BudgetTravel/Intelligent Travel]

— Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel Deal Blogger

[Photo: Jeff Roberson / Associated Press]

This entry was posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 8:29 am by Jen Leo and is filed under Good Morning, News, Tips & Advice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

4 Comments on “Aloha Airlines; Alltop; Megabus & Boltbus from New York”

mike Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 11:44 am
LOVING the Alltop website.

Thanks!
beatofhawaii.com Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 1:41 pm
First, on Aloha: What forced AQ into final bankruptcy wasn’t competition, it was years of poor decisions. These included failure of the prior owners to modernize its inter-island fleet, expand its trans-pacific fleet beyond a handful of 737-700’s, and obtain more lucrative mainland and international routes. These bad choices, were only exacerbated by competition and fuel costs.

Alltop: Seriously boring if you are a voracious and demanding consumer of internet content. Fine for a beginner though.
Jon Maguire, Portland, Oregon Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Aloha and Hawaiian have been screwing passengers over with outrageous interisland fares for years, and now that the tables are turned, they cry foul?! Ha! competition from the cheaper low cost carriers is not what brought AQ to a screeching halt. Blame the owners/managers for that unfortunate result.
Marilyn Terrell Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I love Alltop. It’s handy and saves time. Another one I like is Brijit, a service that aggregates “the world’s best long-form content and abstracts it in 100 words or less”
http://www.brijit.com/