Poor JetBlue – the friendly little budget-carrier-that-could has spent the past week publicly flailing.

Reported on CNN: Leaders in the US travel industry met in Washington yesterday to discuss the decline in overseas travel to the US since 9/11, and delivered the following message to the Federal Government: “stop treating tourists like terrorists.”

The proverbial “busiest travel weekend of the year” is now officially in progress, as those without the leisure to travel in advance of Thanksgiving are leaving work and scrambling, to get wherever it is that they’re expected for dinner tomorrow.

And the nominees are:

In this edition: the SF Chronicle stumbles upon the Holy Grail (just the cup this time) in Valencia, while the Washington Post visits Brangelina’s compound in Namibia, according to Us Weekly, the site of the second coming.

As if the ever-shrinking coach-class seat weren’t already cramped enough. The NYT reported today that Airbus has been covertly offering the possibility of “standing-room�? seats to Asian airlines on their new, massive A380 double-decker jets.

A recent story from CNN Travel, has me thinking that Iceland — party location du jour for global hipsterdom — may have finally jumped the fermented shark as a destination.

Travel news headlines for 3/30/06