New Website to Provide Travelers with News, Travel Tips and a Chance to Win a $3,000 Holiday Shopping Spree
The Food & Shops at LaGuardia Airport's Central Terminal Building announced today the launch of their new consumer website www.ShopLaGuardia.com. To help celebrate the launch of this new site, the Food & Shops will be holding a special holiday shopping promotion, where one lucky winner will receive a $3,000 shopping spree. "Our goal in developing ShopLaGuardia.com is to create a valuable travel planning resource, by offering an easy-to-navigate website wherein travelers will be able to find important travel news and tips to plan their visit to LaGuardia." says Lillian Tan, Vice President and General Manager of MarketPlace Development, the retail development company

that develops and manages the food and shops program in the terminal. "To commemorate the launch of this new site we are offering the holiday shopping spree as our way of saying 'Thank You' to the 25 million travelers that choose LaGuardia Airport. ShopLaGuardia.com will also provide travelers with airport travel news, employment information, maps and general information on the terminal's eateries and retail shops. The goal of the website is to help travelers better plan their visit at LaGuardia Airport. The website will also highlight special promotions and offerings, including coupons and special sales sponsored by the Food & Shops.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers helped federal and local authorities capture a woman who was attempting to flee the country to avoid felony burglary charges. CBP responded to requests for assistance from agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and from the Port Authority Police Department that were working to locate a woman who was attempting to flee the U.S. to avoid prosecution in connection with two felony warrants for burglary. ICE agents notified CBP that suspect Wesnia Pihik would possibly be traveling under one of four aliases. CBP officers used advance passenger information in finding the subject attempting to board and traveling under the alias Sable Stojka. She was scheduled to depart Newark via KLM flight 658 at 4:40 p.m. bound for Amsterdam. CBP officers at Newark Airport conducted an outbound enforcement exam of the flight and encountered the subject, who was traveling with an alias date of birth, her daughter’s passport and a wig. “Stojka” also was traveling with a friend. New York ICE agents placed the woman under arrest and turned her over to the Bergen County prosecutor’s office for prosecution. “This apprehension demonstrates CBP’s great working relationship with ICE and local law enforcement to protect the public at large,” said Susan Mitchell, CBP director of field operations in New York.

Travelers passing through the Southwest Airlines terminal at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport have a new place to grab a bite to eat before hopping on their plane with the opening of the new Silver Diner last week. "This is a major step in airport food service," said Bob Giaimo, founder, president and chief executive officer of the Rockville-based restaurant. "We are reinventing how it is done." The Silver

Diner in BWI's Concourse A/B is the company's debut in a U.S. airport. The company is expected to open another location at the Philadelphia International Airport in summer 2008. When BWI authorities decided to add another eatery to the airport, they wanted to bring back the nostalgia of a popular retro dinner in Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood of 50 years ago. At the same time, they wanted to give travelers an alternative to the fast-food options available elsewhere in the terminal, he said.

Revenue from Big Apple flights about to eclipse that of Houston Continental Airlines may have Headquarters in Houston, but its primary source of revenues is in the New York Metro area. The carrier's international revenue, mostly from flights to or from the New York area, has grown some 20 percent in the past year and now provides about half its passenger revenue, which totaled $13.1 billion last year. Other airlines have taken notice, a big reason why a Big Apple battle has broken out and promises to get more intense, even as federal regulators move toward limiting flights in the region. After a decade in which Continental and the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey spent some $2 billion to build up a hub at Newark Liberty International Airport, Continental is the dominant carrier in the financial capital of the United States with 469 daily departures. The next closest competitor is Delta Air Lines with 333 daily flights, and the list drops off sharply after that. Atlanta-based Delta in particular has pushed for a larger market share, spending more than $50 million to upgrade facilities at John F. Kennedy Airport. Delta executives say the airline will have spent more than $100 million by next summer. JetBlue also has expanded of late in its hometown of New York City, where it too flies out of JFK, and has said it wants to expand more.