Winter storm to bring first widespread cold snap ahead of Thanksgiving week travel
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Winter storm to bring first widespread cold snap ahead of Thanksgiving week travel

ByNews Polite

A late November storm is set to bring a variety of impacts, including severe weather, accumulating snow, high winds, and the first real blast of wintry-like temperatures this season, which could threaten travel at the start of Thanksgiving week. The storm is forecast to develop out of the Rockies early…

Raccoon falls from LaGuardia ceiling, forcing Spirit staff, flyers to flee
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Raccoon falls from LaGuardia ceiling, forcing Spirit staff, flyers to flee

ByNews Polite

They flew into a frenzy. Frightened staff and flyers at LaGuardia Airport fled the Spirit Airlines’ gate after a rambunctious raccoon was spotted hanging from the ceiling before dropping to the floor of the Big Apple terminal, shocking footage shows. Shrieks of horror filled the budget carrier’s section of the…

NYC airport named best in the US: new survey
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NYC airport named best in the US: new survey

ByNews Polite

Hold onto your luggage, folks!  NYC’s dramatically made-over LaGuardia Airport has been named best in the fifty states, according to the Forbes Travel Guide.  Yes, that’s the same LaGuardia that President Biden once infamously compared to “some third-world country.”  President Biden once infamously compared the hub to “some third-world country.”…

I was kicked off a flight — because I have food allergies
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I was kicked off a flight — because I have food allergies

ByNews Polite

This woman’s food allergy did not fly. Ellie Brelis, 29, recently went viral on TikTok sharing her distressing experience after being removed from a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Boston.  In a tearful video, the actor and playwright explained that she was returning home to see a doctor to…

Mark Cuban drunkenly bought lifetime American Airlines flight pass for 5,000 — ‘and then I upgraded it’
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Mark Cuban drunkenly bought lifetime American Airlines flight pass for $125,000 — ‘and then I upgraded it’

ByNews Polite

Mark Cuban didn’t wait long to splurge after his first big pay day. The now billionaire bought a lifetime flight pass from American Airlines for six figures while drunk and celebrating his first big deal back in 1990, Cuban explained to host Shannon Sharpe on the “Club Shay Shay” podcast…

SF sues Oakland over ‘confusing’ airport name change: ‘Bullying’
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SF sues Oakland over ‘confusing’ airport name change: ‘Bullying’

ByNews Polite

Fog-geddaboutit! San Francisco has been accused of “bullying” after slapping nearby Oakland with a trademark lawsuit — sharply warning the crossbay rival to “stay away” from its brand. The brouhaha by the Bay began after the burg Gertrude Stein once described as having “no there there” rebranded its airport (OAK) —…

Passenger outraged over ‘nightmare’ ,300 first-class cabin
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Passenger outraged over ‘nightmare’ $6,300 first-class cabin

ByNews Polite

Grubby cabins aren’t limited to coach. A high-rolling entrepreneur who shelled out over $6,000 for a first-class seat on Air India was flabbergasted to find that it had ripped furnishings, grime around his seat and a broken-down in-flight entertainment system. He detailed this veritable inflight Fyre Festival in a clip…

Ankur Jain ditched California to start Bilt Rewards in NYC 
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Ankur Jain ditched California to start Bilt Rewards in NYC 

ByNews Polite

Ankur Jain’s Bilt Rewards aims to disrupt America’s $700 billion residential real-estate industry — and he tells The Post he left California for New York to make it happen. Bilt, a loyalty program that gives users rewards for paying rent and spending in their neighborhood, is now valued at $3.25…