Travel Tonic

Bringing you what’s new in travel for April 7th 2011

• Don’t Ignore Scam Warnings – Smarter Travel has posted some info about free trip: "You have won a 'free' trip, just pay the taxes." If you believe that, we have bridges we'd like to sell you. Sadly, many folks believe that, and quickly no longer have enough money to buy bridges.

  Head over to www.smartertravel.com to read the whole article.

• 14 Travel Pet Peeves – RobinD_travel recently posted this over on the Bing Travel Blog:

  What makes you grumpy when you’re traveling?

• April 9: The easiest day of the year to get a passport – Budget Travel recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek's Travel Blog:

  If you need a passport (or are due for a renewal of an existing passport), you'll want to take advantage of the U.S. State Department's "Passport Day in the USA" coming up this Saturday, April 9th.

• US Airways wants A321neo to have Europe and Hawaii range –
  flightglobal.com
  US Airways has informed Airbus it needs the re-engined A321neo to have a similar mission to Boeing 757s that fly longer-haul sectors. The carrier is…
• Frequent flier: Get more than 100,000 miles fast – Sean O'Neill recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek's Travel Blog:
  

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