A new flight is being added at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Regional airline Advanced Air will offer a new nonstop route from Phoenix to Gallup, New Mexico. The northwestern city in New Mexico will now be serviced once a day. The flight time is one hour. Tickets can be purchased online, with deals as...
Read MoreThe early morning heavy monsoon storm is wreaking havoc at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Thursday morning causing several flights to be delayed. Southwest Airlines is reporting that a lightning strike hit a generator, taking their server down. As a result, 93 flights at Sky Harbor are currently delayed or cancelled, per Sky Harbor’s...
Read MorePhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has added a new service to support customers who are blind or have low vision as they travel. This new service, called Aira, provides guidance through a mobile app to assist passengers with a variety of needs, including moving through crowds, avoiding obstacles, finding gates, using self-service kiosks and navigating through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints....
Read MoreThe Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced Thursday the implementation of a new gender option for the TSA PreCheck® application process. The TSA PreCheck program application has been updated to include an additional gender marker option to better serve non-binary and gender non-conforming Americans. This action will ensure the TSA PreCheck system accurately reflects traveler...
Read MoreDuring the Independence Day holiday, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened more than 11.3 million travelers from June 30 through and including Monday, July 4. The weekend travel volume represents 93% of volume for the same 5-day pre-pandemic holiday period in 2019. Friday, July 1, was the busiest air travel day of the weekend,...
Read MoreAhead of the busy summer travel season, Uber recently announced plans to expand its ride reservation feature to a total of 55 airports worldwide, including 39 airports in the United States. Uber Reserve is a special feature that allows riders to book rides up to 30 days in advance and will conveniently automatically adjust reservation times...
Read MoreThe Biden administration just announced plans to ease one of the last remaining COVID-19 government mandates. The US Government will lift the requirement for international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights. The mandate expires Sunday at 12:01 a.m. EDT and the Centers for Disease...
Read MoreThis summer, travel is expected to rebound as industry experts predict more Americans will travel this summer than at any time since the start of the pandemic. Passenger counts continue to increase across the nation as people begin leisurely traveling again. And with the Memorial Day weekend behind us, Phoenix Sky Harbor is expecting...
Read MoreTemperatures are rapidly rising and schools are letting out, which means summer is here. And since summers in Arizona get really hot, the Arizona Department of Transportation wants to remind drivers to protect themselves and their vehicles this summer. Governor Doug Ducey has proclaimed this week, May 23 – 27, as Heat Awareness Week....
Read MoreTemperatures are rapidly rising and schools are letting out, which means summer is here. And since summers in Arizona get really hot, the Arizona Department of Transportation wants to remind drivers to protect themselves and their vehicles this summer. Governor Doug Ducey has proclaimed this week, May 23 – 27, as Heat Awareness Week....
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