These Were the Airports with the Highest Thanksgiving Wait Times Last Year, According to a New Report

If you hold elite status within the American Airlines AAdvantage program, you can now enjoy reciprocal benefits when flying to Ireland and beyond on Aer Lingus.

After three straight years of breakneck growth across the Atlantic Ocean, JetBlue pumped the brakes on its expansion to Europe this winter. But it appears the carrier could soon announce its newest overseas destination.

Fun fact: Even though I've worked at TPG for 5 1/2 years and have a nice stash of points and miles saved up, I've never booked an international lie-flat business-class flight ... that is, until now.

A record-setting nearly 80 million Americans are set to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday this year, packing roads across the country. But while traffic may be unavoidable, leaving on certain days is worse than others. 

So much of plane travel can be stressful. Whether it’s the race to the airport, the interminable security lines, or the fear of flying itself, there are plenty of ways for anxiety to build.

'Tis the season for travelers to save. JetBlue recently announced a discount on tickets to popular destinations in their network including Fort Myers, Miami, Orlando, and more.  Travelers can purchase discounted fares to Fort Myers, Florida from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport for as low as $49 one-way, while the average price for tickets on the same route is $191 one-way.  JetBlue is also discounting flights from Boston Logan International Airport to Florida, including flights from $59 to Miami.

Orchids are zygomorphic, which means that if you cut the flowers in half from top to bottom, each side is symmetrical, like a human face. It could explain why these blooms — which range from baroque and blowsy to subtle and delicate — inspire particular passion among botanical enthusiasts: In them, we see a reflection of ourselves. That’s especially true in Papua New Guinea, where the scale and diversity of orchids holds a mirror to the country itself, which is home to some 850 distinct languages and about as many tribes. More than 3,800 species of orchids have been identified on the island of New Guinea, the eastern half of which comprises most of Papua New Guinea, but Mary Gerritsen, the president of the California-based Orchid Conservation Alliance and a frequent leader of orchid-spotting trips to Papua New Guinea, estimates that there could be more than a thousand species yet to be documented.

Last month, Delta Air Lines cut the ribbon on its second business-class-only lounge at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). A beautiful but smaller, more food-and-beverage focused outpost, the new LAX facility can't quite match the sheer scope of Delta's sprawling, 40,000 square-foot oasis at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), which launched the high-end lounge portfolio this past summer.

Winter weather can be a threat to holiday travel plans, though new data reveals that certain airports and airlines are more prone to delays than others.

Traveling between Africa and the United States just got easier.Delta Air Lines recently announced the seasonal expansion of a nonstop flight between New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and Lagos, Nigeria’s Murtala Muhammed International Airport.

JetBlue flyers who like to book the airline's extra-legroom seats — which are known as "Even More Space" seats — will start to notice changes over the coming months.

The Virgin Atlantic Flying Club program reinvention is now live. The biggest change in the program's history is a new concept of dynamically priced redemptions for Virgin Atlantic-operated flights.