Roundup: Sarah Palin has a JetBlue chartered campaign jet; no cash on SWA flights as of today

Political travel | Sarah Palin gets to fly around in a campaign jet chartered from JetBlue — with her name on it of course. This puts her back in the private skies after she took office in Alaska and rejected a gubernatorial private jet as an extravagance then had it sold, according to the Wall Street Journal’s the Middle Seat Terminal blog. Read the Los Angeles Times’ Sarah Palin, who sold Alaska’s state plane, gets her own campaign one now

In other news, Palin’s travel expenses are being scrutinized. [Washington Post]

Airline news | Just a reminder that today is the day Southwest Airlines stops taking cash for your alcoholic beverages and energy drinks. Credit and debit cards only please (and Southwest coupons). Rest assured the little bags of snacks are still free.

Hotel news | Where did the hotel tax go? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a story about how the city of Atlanta is trying to recover money from 17 online travel reservation companies that it says are “illegally pocketing millions of dollars in hotel tax revenue.” Read: Atlanta among U.S. cities suing online travel companies

– Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger

[Photo: James S. Wood / Associated Press]

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