Amazing Video from a 1928 Commercial Flight, How Hotels Have Changed, and 7000 JetBlue Points for New Members

by Gary Leff on April 28, 2015

News and notes from around the interweb:

Metro rail connectivity for Washington’s Dulles airport has been pushed back to 2019. That’s if everything goes according to plan between now and then. In the meantime, Washington Dulles remains a very bad airport.
10 Things You No Longer See in Hotels (HT: Matt B.)
7000 bonus JetBlue points (worth ~ $100 in flights) for new members who join, book, and travel by June 18.
Here’s video that several people shared with me yesterday on Facebook of the first passenger flight from Detroit to Cleveland (1928). It’s amazing what we take for granted.

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