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Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Meet Boston's newest budget airline - Arajet. Where it flies, how much tickets cost
If you're looking for a direct flight to the Caribbean, a new budget airline will begin flying out of Boston starting in late fall 2025. In a release this week, Arajet airlines announced that it would be offering a new route connecting Boston Logan International Airport to Las Américas Santo Domingo Airport in the Dominican Republic. Arajet was launched on Sept. 15, 2022 but the new flights to the Dominican will mark the airline's first appearance in Boston. "The Boston area is home to one of the largest Dominican communities in the U.S. and serves as a key hub for education, business, and tourism," Victor Pacheco, CEO and founder of Arajet, said in a release when announcing the move into Boston. ""With this addition, Arajet's presence in major U.S. markets will capture strong demand for low-fare, high-quality service between North America and Latin America, reflecting our commitment to building a bridge between the regions and opening new travel opportunities for both leisure and business travelers."" In the Northeast, Arajet also flies out of Newark Liberty International Airport. Here's what to know. Arajet flights will begin on Nov. 20, 2025. Starting on Nov. 20, the airline will offer "four nonstop flights per week (out of Logan Airport in Boston) ... providing New Englanders with affordable access to the Dominican Republic, Caribbean, and Latin America," according to a report in Business Wire magazine. The Hoodline website explained that while Arajet's direct route is to Santo Domingo, the airline will offer connections from that location to more than 25 destinations in the Caribbean, Central, and South America. These locations include places like Aruba, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and more, Hoodline noted. One way tickets, which are now online at start at $170. There are three different levels of fare tiers, Smart, Comfort, and Extra, which come with different amenities like selected seats and Business Wire online stated that it will use Boeing 737 MAX airplanes for its flights. This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: Cheap international tickets: Boston's Logan airport gets new airline
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Spring hasn't sprung everywhere. There's late snow forecast to hit the Northeast
While Thursday marks the first day of spring and a return to warmer temperatures, the Northeast is not getting out of winter so easily. Wet weather and snow is on the way between Thursday and Friday, forecasters warned. "Except for northern New England, where it will snow and accumulate down into the valleys, this will be a higher elevation snowfall in central New England, parts of eastern New York and even into portions of northeastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey and southwestern Connecticut," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dave Dombek explained in a statement. "In these central Appalachians areas, the accumulating snow can dip down to around 1,000 feet or perhaps even a bit lower later Thursday night to Friday morning,' he said. AccuWeather says that between one and six inches of snow is forecast to fall on the Green Mountains, the White Mountains, the Adirondacks, and the Catskills. The snow there will end by Friday morning, and rain was expected to fall over New York City and Boston, by Thursday evening and into Friday. Showers and thunderstorms are forecast to develop over parts of the mid-Atlantic region, as well as the Southeast. The last of the light snow and rain would occur by Friday evening. "Regardless, the storm will pull colder air in at ground level, but even much colder air in higher up in the atmosphere on Friday," Dombek said, "That's a recipe for fairly widespread wet snow [mixed with rain] showers in the region during Friday midday and afternoon." On Thursday morning, 'wind-whipped snow' was also falling in the Chicago area, resulting in slick travel conditions. Winds there are reportedly gusting up to 45mph, according to Hoodline. The snowfall comes following a major blizzard that pounded Nebraska and the central U.S., with advisories stretching from Colorado to Minnesota. Nearly 50,000 customers remained without power in the Cornhusker State, according to tracker There and in neighboring Kansas, residents had a wild week. In just 24 hours, 80-degree temperatures and fire weather devolved into snowstorms. "It was 80 degrees yesterday, and less than 24 hours later the snow drifts are taller than the cows. March sucks,' farmer Jaxsen Moss said.
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Health officials sound alarm over concerning discovery made during mosquito testing: 'Prompting heightened awareness'
2024 was a good year for a certain population in Ohio — which is bad news for the people who live there. Ohio's Department of Health's yearly mosquito surveillance found the West Nile virus is alive and well in the Buckeye State, Hoodline reported. The testing collected over 416,000 mosquito samples, finding that over 8% of them across 41 counties tested positive for the West Nile virus. As Hoodline put it, these rates indicate "a clear presence of the virus" in Ohio. The counties that reported the highest rates — Franklin County followed by Lorain and Summit — are now "prompting heightened awareness and preventive measures to be taken by the residents and local health authorities." These surveillance efforts are part of the preventive measures, and Hoodline described them as "crucial in understanding the prevalence and proactively managing the spread of these vector-borne diseases." The species of mosquito that spread the West Nile virus fall under the Culex genus, and they have established populations on all of the major inhabited continents. The females lay their eggs in water, using any source from puddles to flooded cellars, rice fields, river edges, ornamental ponds, and more. But the real issue and mounting threat is that the Culex survives in high temperatures. The higher the temperature, the faster their eggs hatch, and the more generations they can produce each year, per the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. This means that, as global temperatures continue to rise due to human-generated pollution, the Culex's potential inhabitable regions expand, and their breeding season gets longer. The issue is the same for another common disease-spreading type of mosquito, called Aedes, also known as the tiger mosquito. Do you worry about getting diseases from bug bites? Absolutely Only when I'm camping or hiking Not really Never Click your choice to see results and speak your mind. They are responsible for deadly diseases like Zika, dengue fever, chikungunya, yellow fever, and more — and as their territories expand, so too does the public health risk posed by these diseases. For Ohio, their detailed surveillance map will serve as a tool to help them "track, avert, and respond to the geographic flow of the West Nile virus as the year progresses," Hoodline explained. Officials urged residents to take preventive measures both to keep from getting bitten and to minimize potential breeding spots in the area. This includes using non-toxic sprays or deterrents — like citronella candles, burnt coffee grounds, and vanilla — to covering any water caches and draining any stagnant water. Scientists are also working on other solutions, such as a vaccine to protect against certain illnesses or methods to sterilize mosquito populations. Join our free newsletter for weekly updates on the latest innovations improving our lives and shaping our future, and don't miss this cool list of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet.
