Weekly Travel News Recap: November 4 – 10, 2012

A roller coaster sits in the surf just days after Hurricane Sandy hit Seaside Heights, New Jersey on Nov.1, 2012. (Source: leahraeofsunshine on Tumblr)

Here are some of the relevant travel news headlines and stories from the previous week:

• Priceline.com will buy Kayak.com – As if the travel industry hasn’t consolidated enough, travel-shopping site Priceline.com is buying price-comparison site Kayak.com. (WSJ MarketWatch)
• Airlines expect full Thanksgiving season flights – No surprise here. (USA Today)
• Airlines ground 1,700 flights as another storm hits Northeast U.S. – A Nor’easter, named Athena, hit the Northeastern United States as it was still recovering after Hurricane Sandy. (USA Today)
• Baltimore, MD official travel bureau puts up gay wedding site – Baltimore’s official travel bureau, Visit Baltimore, announced that it has launched a new micro website dedicated to catering to the gay community who might want to get married in the state. (Examiner)
• Iberia Airlines to cut 4,500 jobs in effort to trim costs – Spain’s flag carrier and Europe’s largest airline to South America, Iberia, will cut over 4,500 jobs to reduce costs and survive. (Reuters)

Christian “Krzysiek“ Eilers is a twenty-something who constantly likes to look at the next flight out of JFK. His life goal is to visit every country in the world; as a young adult working full-time while also taking classes, he often settles on visiting the near countries of Central and South America and the Caribbean, knocking these off the list as it is less of a financial strain than Europe or Asia. Caffeine is his vice, and if he doesn’t have a coffee in his hands, then it’s probably a green tea. A native of New York City, when he is not traveling, he can find an abundance of cultural influences right in his own city, enough to keep him satisfied until the next country’s beckon cannot be ignored any longer.