Travel Tonic

Bringing you what’s new in travel for June 28th 2010

• New York Controversy: A crackdown on "no-tels" – Sean O'Neill recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek's Travel Blog:

  Hundreds of New Yorkers, like others nationwide, have been making a few extra dollars by using sites such as AirBnB, Crashpadder, Roomorama, and Craigslist to sublet pullout sofas, living rooms, and whole apartments.

• A month of in-flight Wi-Fi now costs $20, down from $35 – Brad Tuttle recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek's Travel Blog:

  Perhaps even better news is the fact that a subscription hooks fliers up with Wi-Fi on lots of different airlines.