Many of Bookit.com's travelers are taking to social media about the online travel company leaving complaints that they’ve gone out of business and left their customers stranded. Now this is highly unfortunate for those customers that have been affected but honestly Bookit has been one of those companies that I have warned travelers about for years when they would say "oh I can find it way cheaper on this site". Bookit.com is trying to blame their collapse on the COVID-19 crisis but anyone that professionally books travel knows that those hotel rooms and resorts should have been paid for in full at the time of booking so the horror story of people paying for those "cheap trips" and then arriving
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Coronavirus Shuts Down Air Traffic Control Tower at Chicago Midway Airport
By Ian Duncan and Michael Laris March 17, 2020 at 8:17 p.m. EDT The air traffic control tower at Chicago’s Midway airport was temporarily closed Tuesday after several technicians tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The agency said operations would continue at reduced levels. A ground stop — an order halting flights from taking off from or departing for the airport — was issued just after 5 p.m. Tuesday but was lifted soon after. “The air traffic system is a resilient system with multiple backups in place,” the agency said in a statement. “This shift is a regular execution of a long-standing contingency plan to ensure continued operations. Each facility across the country has a similar plan that has been updated and tested
Don’t Get Scammed By Fake Travel Websites
Everyone is trying to squeeze in that last summer, vacation getaway but make sure you take extra care when trying to book your flights online. There are some unscrupulous people out there that are looking for your inattentiveness to take your money. This is when it pays to have a standard travel agent that you can trust and that you do business with regularly, the same way you take your taxes to the same person every year or visit the same doctor for common ailments. That travel agent will value your repeat business and always provide you the best level of service and insure that your travel plans are always suited to your liking. Some of these so called