Halfway through the flight I feel something warm on my foot. And I freak out.

Last month, reporter Jane Engle tested out the new system for pre-screened travelers (who’ve also forked over $100) to clear security faster and found many things lacking. Her chief complaint was that, quite simply, it wasn’t any faster.

Cue the bad “Mile-High Club” jokes. Demonstrating why the commercial passenger jet has never before doubled as a flying concert venue, Jamiroquai played a a set of their white-man funk for a plane full of contest winners on Monday.

So much for their good intentions: JetBlue canceled 68 flights out of JFK this morning due to an overnight snowstorm that dropped a measly 2-4 inches on New York.

In the headlines this weekend: continued fallout from the JetBlue fiasco, planning a different kind of Spring Break, with a few tropical beaches thrown in for good measure, and the New York Times’ guide to cruising.

Tapping into the JetBlue hoopla, MSNBC travel columnist Christopher Eliiot rsponded today to one Vinit Desai who had sit through 30 hours of delays after his scheduled American Airlines SF-to-Chicago flight was canceled because of weather.

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

Stowaway squirrels, Chinese environmentalism, and toxic LA.

Well, not a photo exactly. According to the Air Transport Association, this radar screenshot shows private jets scattering to the winds on Monday, after the tornado of gambling, price-gouging and sponsored after-parties that was the Super Bowl.

Budget Travel Online’s “Web Smart” feature has an interesting piece this month about the business of predicting airline ticket prices.