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New Canadian Airline – Jetlines, Plans To Commence Air Service Mid-2015

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Have you ever heard of Jetlines? Us neither, but they’ve just announced an order for five Boeing 737 MAX 7s aircraft valued at $438 million, and includes purchase rights for an additional 16 – 737 MAX’s down the road. The new Canadian ultra-low cost carrier is starting to builds its future fleet of Boeing-exclusive jets and intends to commence domestic scheduled point-to-point air service in mid-2015 from a base at YVR (Vancouver, B.C.)

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Skating Trail One of Ontario’s Best Kept Secrets For Winter Fun

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Whether you’re a winter-lover or not, it’s tough not to be enticed by the lure of a skating through the forest! This popular route at Arrowhead Provincial Park in Huntsville Ontario will soon be open for the season, and is said to be one of Ontario’s best kept secrets for Winter fun. As families begin planning what to do over the holidays, they’d be crazy not to consider visiting Arrowhead at least once this winter – it looks like they’ve got it all! Arrowhead grooms and maintains more than 33 km of cross-country ski trails that are designed for classic skiing or skate skiing. Each trail is rated for difficulty and ranges from beginner to expert. The park offers a variety of hiking/snowshoeing trails. Arrowhead boasts Ontario’s longest man-made outdoor skating ring at 1.3-kilometers long. The park offers snow-tubing and even provides the tubes! Warm up at one of two warm-up shelters or the open fire pit at the top of the tubing hill. Arrowhead is open every day, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the park is …

Virgin Galactic White Knight 2 & Spaceship 2 Rendezvous With Commercial Flight Over San Francisco

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How cool is this? Near the end of a flight to San Francisco, a commercial airliner is joined by Virgin Galactic’s brand new SpaceShipTwo and its mother-ship plane, the White Knight II, followed by a parallel landing at SFO. Can you imagine being on the plane and seeing this?!   Copyright © 2014 Iain & Gail Shankland / TravelBloggers.ca (at) Gmail.com Be sure to give us a like on Facebook or follow us on Twitter…or sign up for our blog via email so you don’t miss future articles! About TravelBloggers.ca Iain Shankland & Gail Shankland started blogging in order to inspire and motivate people to travel the world from their perspective – specializing in having the most fun while using the least amount of money, travelling on the cheap without sacrificing comfort. This original, copyrighted material may NOT be copied, used in whole or in part in any way, cut and pasted, published or otherwise reproduced in any form or in any medium – which means DO NOT POST THIS ON ANOTHER WEBSITE or BLOG. …

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1 Minute Tour of Motu Teta, Tahiti

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Got 60 seconds? Have a look at this video from Islands magazine.. worth every minute! Click here to watch the video   Copyright © 2014 Iain & Gail Shankland / TravelBloggers.ca (at) Gmail.com Be sure to give us a like on Facebook or follow us on Twitter…or sign up for our blog via email so you don’t miss future articles! About TravelBloggers.ca Iain Shankland & Gail Shankland started blogging in order to inspire and motivate people to travel the world from their perspective – specializing in having the most fun while using the least amount of money, travelling on the cheap without sacrificing comfort. This original, copyrighted material may NOT be copied, used in whole or in part in any way, cut and pasted, published or otherwise reproduced in any form or in any medium – which means DO NOT POST THIS ON ANOTHER WEBSITE or BLOG. If you want somebody else to see this, please send them a link or post a link to this page

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Paneless Flying – Aircraft Without Windows – Is This Our Future?

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The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) offers a glimpse into what could be the future of commercial air travel … The Windowless Airplane. We all know how annoying it can be trying to peek over someone’s shoulder to catch a glimpse of the outside world through that tiny little scratched up airplane window as you taxi down the runway and glide into the air, but is this really a solution everyone will enjoy? Possibly not, but you have to admit CPI’s concept is pretty intriguing: “Imagine a cabin where the windows are display screens, relaying a choice of views from around the aircraft. If you’re not sitting in a window seat, your large seat-back display becomes your window on the world as well as a source of entertainment. Supplement this with subtle cabin lighting from gently glowing walls and you create a unique travel environment. Screens that are ultra thin, very light and highly flexible are integrated with the fuselage or the seat backs with no unsightly, clumsy or heavy housings.” The CPI estimates that within …

Why You Should Check The Price Of Flights AFTER You Book

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Every time you book a flight you have that sinking feeling that the price is going to go down tomorrow. Murphy’s law says it’s going to happen … so what do you do? 68 percent of the time, ticket prices do drop within that 24-hour window,according to a recent study from Hopper, and on average, this price is 14 percent lower than the original. Ouch … That hurts! What most people don’t realize is that you can cancel your flight for FREE within 24 hours of booking.  It’s a federal rule for airlines to give passengers a full refund if they choose to cancel their flights within 24 hours of booking, provided they book more than seven days before their trip (Technically, the rule says that airlines must either hold a reservation at a quoted fare for 24 hours OR allow passengers to cancel within 24 hours. Most airlines take the second option, though some, like American, have “hold” programs that allow customers to put a ticket on hold for 24 hours before booking.)