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Kimberly Pierceall
Kim grew up in tourist-haven Palm Springs back when then-Mayor Sonny Bono stopped raucous Spring Break revelers and launched the annual film festival. She also remembers when the Aerial Tramway’s cars didn’t spin. Reporting for The Press-Enterprise business section since February 2005, she regularly covers tourism-related news.
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Please Sir, Can I Have a Little Legroom?
More legroom? No problem! That’ll be $10 more bucks. JetBlue has an ingenious plan to make more money in the coming year as airlines hemorrhage from rising oil costs. Charge folks sitting in the front of the plane or in…
Paper — airlines can’t afford it but we can! That and ink.
(www.jasondunn.com) On June 1 all major U.S. airline carriers will phase out printing paper tickets and only issue e-tickets sent to you by e-mail. Granted, I’ve personally become a fan of e-tickets. It’s one less piece of paper I…
Cake and Ice Cream? Not When You Can Hand Out Free Flights
Forget the cake and ice cream. JetBlue is celebrating its eighth birthday (they grow up so fast) this year and handing out flights to 100 of the airline’s loyal flyers known as TrueBlue members. Until Feb. 29, TrueBlue members and…
No Double Entendres for Virgin America on Valentine’s Day
I’m beginning to think Virgin America is never not having a sale (I know, I love double-negatives too). Case in point, the airline is offering flights from Los Angeles to Seattle from $99 each way and Los Angeles to Washington…
Reason #48 Your Friends Without a Smart Phone Will Loathe You
When you’re not texting photos to your friends of inane things taken with your camera phone or surfing the mobile version of Facebook to see who has commented on your status update, you can check into your flight on American…
ExpressJet Reaches Out to Palm Springs
(ExpressJet lands at LA/Ontario International Airport in early 2007) UPDATE: I just talked to Kristy Nicholas, spokeswoman for ExpressJet, and while it may seem odd for the CEO of an airline to stop by a local chamber meeting, in…
ExpressJet Lets Passengers Change Plans this Weekend
ExpressJet Airlines, which flies out of LA/Ontario International Airport is bracing for the worst in weather this weekend so its allowing folks who booked a flight through Sunday Jan. 6 to change their flight once without any penalty fee. If…