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.