More JetBlue flights; new United mileage awards

By Joe Brancatelli

• JetBlue Airways continues to grow in Boston. It’ll launch flights between Boston/Logan and San Jose, Calif., on May 13. Also new: Logan-Punta Cana, Dominican Republic service, due to launch on May 8. Two days earlier, the airline is scheduled to begin New York/Kennedy-Punta Cana flights.

• United Airlines now offers one-way awards as part of Mileage Plus. Just like American Airlines, which introduced one-way awards in AAdvantage last year, there is a catch: Free stopovers are eliminated. All awards are now valid for a single flight segment.

• Six airports in the BAA system in the United Kingdom have added Boingo’s Wi-Fi service. The airports are in London (Heathrow and Stansted), Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Southampton.

• Northwest Airlines died on Jan. 31. Delta Air Lines officially eliminated the NW code and, effective Feb. 1, all former Northwest flights carry the DL code. There are still plenty of aircraft outfitted with Northwest livery, of course.

• IATA, the global airline trade group, says that demand for flights fell faster in 2009 than any time since World War II. Global passenger traffic declined by 3.5 percent and freight traffic declined by 10.1 percent.

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Joe Brancatelli is editor and publisher of JoeSentMe.com, a non-commercial Web site for business travelers. Copyright 2009 by Joe Brancatelli. Licensed by contract for Orbitz use.

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