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Southwest and Bar Refaeli help TripCart kick off Beach season

While half of the United States is buried in snow, Southwest airlines has decided to help out TripCart and cheer up the freezing citizens of the east coast by kicking off Beach Season. They even went to the trouble of painting a plane that will inspire people to plan their beach vacation on TripCart. You should not have trouble spotting this plane, pictured above but for the die-hard aviation nuts out there, the plane can be identified by the FAA Registration number on the tail of the 737-7H4 model, which is:

N922WN

Here are some popular beach destinations that Southwest flies to:

When you are finished with the Orlando, Florida places to visit, head to the coast for more places to visit in Florida -caladesi island state park, bathtub beach and sebastian inlet.

All over California - from glass beach in the north through pismo beach and  bolsa chica beach all the way to blacks beach in San Diego.Besides beaches, there are certainly lots of places to visit around Los Angeles, California

Besides the Norfolk, VA James river cruises, down the coast from Norfolk into North Carolina, follow in the footsteps of the Wright Brothers (without whom Bar Refaeli might not be decaled onto a 737) and visit Wrightsville Beach,Hammocks Beach State Park or Hatteras Beach.

And if a subway ride from JFK is about as exotic as you are getting this summer, head to Riis Beach, Orchard Beach in the Bronx, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn or - if you are a fan of the Ramones - Rock Rock Rock Rock Rockaway Beach. Then head back to the city and enjoy some of the fun things to do in Manhattan and NYC.

Picture from Denver International Airport

A little perspective from the moving walkway at the Denver International Airport.

(thanks dangerding)

Atlanta Still Has World's Busiest Airport

We reported a few months ago that Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport was America's busiest but in a statement released today by the Geneva-based Airports Council International Atlanta's airport also takes the prize as the world's busiest with about 85 million people passing through in 2006.  Chicago's O'Hare (76 million) came in second followed by London's Heathrow (67.5 million).  The rest of the top 10 included Tokyo's Haneda (65 million), LAX (61 million), Dallas-Fort Worth (60 million), Paris' Charles De Gaulle (57 million), Frankfurt (53 million), Beijing (48.5 million), and Denver with 47 million.