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All Things Travel: More International Airlines Choose Boston
BOSTON (CBS) — On Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m., June 20, Logan Airport’s international terminal was a busy place. Massport is welcoming its first flight from Boston to Shanghai on Hainan Airlines with...
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All Things Travel: Boston Doesn’t Need The Olympics
BOSTON (CBS) — It’s not that I am against the 2024 Summer Olympics coming to Boston and Massachusetts; I just don’t think we need it to show off what we have to offer the world. Independence Day was a...
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All Things Travel: Uber The Smarter Choice In Boston
BOSTON (CBS) – Uber is easier. That pretty much sums up getting a car and a local driver when you want it in Boston. I was introduced to the service a couple of weeks ago and last week I had a chance...
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All Things Travel: Boston Never Needed The Olympics
BOSTON (CBS) – The shadow of The Big Dig dug Boston 2024 in a hole from which it never recovered. The small guys won out over big business. A couple of major missteps dogged Boston’s efforts. The first...
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All Things Travel: Boston Public Market Opens In Prime Location
BOSTON (CBS) – Boston 2015 is doing very well this summer, attracting a record number of visitors as Boston 2024 goes away. The end of the Summer Olympics bid marks a new beginning for the city. No...
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All Things Travel: Norwegian Ramps Up Boston Flights
BOSTON (CBS) – Travel to Europe from Logan Airport next year just got a major new competitor. Next May, Norwegian will begin flights to London’s Gatwick Airport; Oslo, Norway and Copenhagen, Denmark....
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All Things Travel: Boston To New York Travel Gears Up
BOSTON (CBS) – After a summer lull, travel between Boston and New York is gearing up for a record number of trips. On a busy day, over 20,000 people will travel between the two cities by air, bus and...
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All Things Travel: Tough Times For Transportation
BOSTON (CBS) – State Transportation problems are not going to be fixed next year or in five years. That was the message that came out loud and clear at The Transportation & Economic Panel at the...
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All Things Travel: Autumn Busy Season For New England Cruises
BOSTON (CBS) – As the leaves start to turn, cruise passengers turn to Boston for a vacation and a chance to see the bright colors. In October, over 100,000 passengers will pass through Massport’s Black...
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All Things Travel: Boston Symphony Hits High Note In Europe
BOSTON (CBS) – The Boston Symphony Orchestra opened their winter season at Symphony Hall on October 1 after a very successful European tour this summer. The 16 day tour, starting in August, was the...
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All Things Travel: Notes For Visiting The Pacific Northwest
BOSTON (CBS) – Is a trip to the northwest in your future? In case it’s your first trip, here is some advice to help you plan all aspects of your trip. TRAFFIC JAMS – Moving through Eugene and Portland...
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All Things Travel: Rectrix Aviation Continues 10-Year Growth
BOSTON (CBS) – Rectrix Commercial Aviation Services is making a name for itself in New England and beyond. The company held an open house last Thursday at its new world headquarters at Hanscom Field...
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All Things Travel: The Demise Of New York And Rise Of Boston
BOSTON (CBS) — Forget New York City, I’ll take Boston any time. I have been working and traveling between both cities for more than 50 years and spent three days last week in the Big Apple, a phrase...
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All Things Travel: Lawyers Travel Agency Wins Its Case
BOSTON (CBS) – Paul Metselaar had an idea to make travel easier for busy lawyers and it worked. Originally named Lawyers Travel, it is now known as The Ovation Travel Group servicing some of the...
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All Things Travel: More Bad Times Ahead For MBTA
BOSTON (CBS) – The letters MBTA could stand for More Bad News Ahead, before the good times roll. The transit authority board will meet Monday to discuss raising fares and reducing The Ride. The hearing...
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All Things Travel: Logan Airport Expects Record Passenger Traffic
BOSTON (CBS) – Logan Airport is expecting record passenger traffic on Friday as the Christmas rush gets underway. About 120,000 people are expected to pass through, enough to fill Fenway Park three...
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All Things Travel: Out-Of-State Casinos Beating Plainridge Park
BOSTON (CBS) — As the year comes to a close, Plainridge Park Casino is finishing in fourth place in the New England gaming race behind Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut and Twin River in Rhode...
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All Things Travel: Logan Airport Helps Land GE In Boston
BOSTON (CBS) — Relocate to innovate. That is the story behind General Electric’s decision to move their world corporate headquarters a couple of hundred miles from Fairfield, Connecticut to Boston....
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All Things Travel: New International Airlines Landing At Logan Airport
BOSTON (CBS) — International airlines are landing at Logan Airport in record numbers. This week, three new routes from Logan were added and by the middle of June, six more departures have been schedule...
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All Things Travel: Alaska Air To Buy Virgin America For More Than $4B
BOSTON (CBS) — Alaska Airlines won the bidding war over JetBlue and will buy Virgin America in a deal worth more than $4 billion. The deal, when completed, will vault Alaska past JetBlue as the...
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All Things Travel: Logan Numbers Take Off
BOSTON (CBS) – The number of passengers flying in and out of Logan Airport is climbing to new, record numbers. In the first three months of 2016, a total of 7,519,148 people used the airport–and if the...
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All Things Travel: Logan’s Downtown Travel Challenges
BOSTON (CBS) – As of June 1, airport passengers taking mass transportation from Logan to downtown will pay three different prices. The Massachusetts Port Authority Board of Directors voted last...
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All Things Travel: ‘Mr. Airline’ Returns To Boston
BOSTON (CBS) — David Neeleman returned to Logan Airport Saturday night as the CEO of TAP, The Airline of Portugal. It’s the latest move of the man who has headed five airlines on three continents....
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All Things Travel: Senator Markey Hits The Mark
BOSTON (CBS) – At a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs luncheon on Friday, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey was right on target. Consider these shots: His recommendation on the...
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All Things Travel: Boston Reacts To Brexit Vote
BOSTON (CBS) – Brexit, now fix it. That was the theme of two interviews Friday with CEOs in Boston who lead billion-dollar international companies. They took a wait-and-see attitude to the surprising...
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All Things Travel: Flights To Havana Mean Shift In Caribbean Tourism
BOSTON (CBS) – Changes are in the air for Caribbean travel for next winter. The government Transportation Department has given tentative approval for 20 daily flights a week from to Havana by eight...
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All Things Travel: Legal Sea Foods Takes Its Case To Airports
BOSTON (CBS) — “We like the Northeast Corridor,” said Roger Berkowitz, CEO of Legal Sea Foods. The restaurant and direct mail organization has its headquarters on the Boston waterfront, and has...
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All Things Travel: Logan Airport Steps Forward
BOSTON (CBS) — Logan Airport opened its new walkway between Terminals C and E this week, making it much easier for passengers to make their connecting flights. Six-month Logan numbers, expected to be...
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All Things Travel: Logan Airport Lines Up Record Passenger Numbers
BOSTON (CBS) – Logan Airport passenger numbers should be up about 250,000 for this month. Last year the numbers showed the airport doing almost 3.5 million passengers, with 11 new international...
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All Things Travel: Start Of Boston Casino Construction A ‘Big Wynn’ For Mass.
BOSTON (CBS) – It’s still a couple of years away, but Boston is going to get its first casino action. Ground was officially broken this week for the Wynn Resort Casino, a $2.1 billion dollar project...
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All Things Travel: Delta Boston Flights Take Off
BOSTON (CBS) — Delta Airlines plans a major expansion of its flights from Logan Airport over the next 12 months. By June of next year Delta will have added over 20 percent more seats to its Boston...
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All Things Travel: Delta’s Computer Crash Downs The Airline
BOSTON (CBS)– Delta Air Lines had a tough week at the peak summer travel season. Logan Airport’s third largest carrier, behind JetBlue and American, lost millions of dollars and the goodwill of its...
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All Things Travel: Airlines Look To Boston For Growth
BOSTON (CBS) – The three major U.S. domestic airlines have plans for Boston and that will likely mean lower prices for passengers. American, Delta and United see growth at Logan Airport. Fuel prices...
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All Things Travel: ‘Sully’ Is No Disaster
BOSTON (CBS) – I went right out to see the movie “Sully,” the movie that depicts US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger saving everyone aboard when his jet crash-lands in the Hudson River one cold day...
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All Things Travel: LimoLiner Beats Amtrak In Race From Boston To New York
BOSTON (CBS) – In a transportation race between Boston and New York, LimoLiner wins by a mile. The transportation company that offers a deluxe coach bus ride from downtown to downtown is a better...
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All Things Travel: Toronto Baseball Fans Are True Blue
CBSBoston – Toronto sports fans were out in force to see the final baseball games of the season against the Red Sox in Boston. It was a rainy fall weekend, but they liked what they saw as the Blue Jays...
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All Things Travel: Hard Landing For Samsung
BOSTON (CBS) – Flying from Phoenix to Boston this week, you got the word – no Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on the planes at your seat or in checked baggage. This was no recall. It was an order from the U.S....
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All Things Travel: Logan Fliers Shocked By Trump Win
BOSTON (CBS) – At 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, passengers boarding planes at Logan Airport were surprised by the outcome of the presidential election. The general reaction, though, was that the country...
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All Things Travel: Boston’s 2020 Strategy For China Visitors
BOSTON (CBS) – Boston is making big plans to attract more visitors from China. The goal is to double the number to 500,000 in the beginning of the next decade. To make this happen, more partnerships...
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Will Logan Airport Numbers Keep Climbing?
Logan celebrated its 36 millionth passenger this week, but the question is, will this growth continue?
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