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.

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.

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.

Today in travel news-that’s-not-news.

Only a month into the new year, people everywhere are staking out the nicely mnemonic date of 07/07/07 (and all those lucky sevens) for their own purposes.

Large swathes of the populations of Chicago and Indianapolis will be on the move this weekend, along with scores of other Americans, traveling to Miami to watch the Bears face off agains the Colts in Super Bowl XLI.

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.”

As of today, US citizens arriving by air from outside the 50 States, no matter what their point of origin, must have a passport to re-enter the country. (Unless you’re coming from Puerto Rico or the USVI, that is. Loophole!)

The saturday before last, it hit 70º in New York City, but lately things have been suitably wintry. It would be a relief, if I hadn’t just found out that it snowed in Los Angeles yesterday.