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.

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

A piece from today’s NYT Travel Section on Madrid has vaulted into the ranks of the paper’s most-emailed. It seems, now that Barcelona has slumped into a deep post-party hangover, that stuffier, but more tasteful Madrid is getting it’s due

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!)