Business Travel Tips

American Airlines announced it will add daily nonstop service between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and three new destinations including Cincinnati (CVG), Norfolk (ORF), and Indianapolis (IND), beginning November 18.

The service will be operated by the the regional affiliate American Eagle with 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145 jets.

Below are the schedule for this new service American Eagle service from New York JFK.

The schedule for flights between New York JFK and Norfolk (all times local) is:

The schedule for flights between New York JFK and Cincinnati (all times local) is:

The schedule for flights between New York JFK and Indianapolis (all times local) is:

(source)

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The promotion code is valid for flights from the 48 contiguous United States to any destination worldwide.

Travel period: through October 26.
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Europe’s third-biggest low-cost carrier Air Berlin will join the oneworld® global alliance.
First big low-cost carrier to join one of the three large global airline alliances, Air Berlin will develop co-operative agreements with group members American Airlines and Finnair.

The partnerships with American and Finnair will provide codeshare flights to 15 additional U.S. destinations as well as on routes to points in Europe and Asia.

Air Berlin is Germany’s second-biggest carrier and offers service to Germany from a number of North American airports including Fort Myers, Miami, Los Angeles, New York JFK, San Francisco, and Vancouver. (source)

A new airfare shopping mobile app has been launched for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
The app, OnTheFly by ITA Software, Inc., offers the powerful comparison shopping features used by many travel companies and by ITA’s Matrix airfare search application at http://matrix.itasoftware.com.

OnTheFly enables users to easily shop for optimal airfares for any itinerary in the world and provides comprehensive choices to tailor the search and shopping experience.

Travelers can download the shopping-only version for iPhone and iPod touch for free from the App Store.

ITA Software is planning to launch mobile applications for BlackBerry and Android platforms later in 2010.

Turkish Airlines will start nonstop service between Los Angeles International (LAX) and Istanbul, beginning March 3, 2011.

The Turkish carrier is already operating flights to four other North American destinations, including Chicago, New York, Toronto and Washington.

Also it plans to start service to Washington Dulles.(source)

Turkish Airlines is a Star-Alliance member.