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About www.AirlinesAndDestinations.com inShare Our Website www.AirlinesAndDestinations.com is dedicated to bringing you news you can use about airlines, airports, destinations, hotels, resorts and interesting events throughout the world, on a timely and frequent basis. In March 2013, less than four years after the foundation of www.AirlinesAndDestinations.com in July 2009, Cision ‒ a major provider of PR and media services and the owner of North America’s best-known database of media outlets ‒ ranked the website among the Top 50 Travel Blogs based in North America. For advertising inquiries, please contact www.techmedianetwork.com/contact/advertising.html. For news tips and press or photo releases only, please contact the Editor at: editor@airlinesanddestinations.com When sending press releases, please include good-resolution photos whenever possible. Our news site is very visual and every news story we run is accompanied by a captioned and credited photograph. For general inquiries, please contact us at: info@AirlinesAndDestinations.com Phone: +1 (347) 827-0046 Who We Are www.AirlinesAndDestinations.com is edited and published by Christian Kjelgaard and Madelyn Mills and also features articles from contributing editors who are highly respected travel and airline-industry journalists. Christian Kjelgaard, the Editor of www.AirlinesAndDestinations.com, is a journalist with 30 years’ experience in writing about the airline and airport industries, aviation and travel. He has served as Editor of five airline-industry magazine titles as well as Aviation.com, a well-known consumer web site on aviation and air travel. Christian also spent five years as Chief Reporter of Air Transport Intelligence, the world’s only news wire specifically about the air transport industry. He is possibly the only person ever to have served as Editor of the official magazine of the International Air Transport Association (Airlines International) and the official magazine of the Airports Council International (Airport World) at the same time. In addition, Christian has written for dozens of business and consumer publications, newspapers and websites. Christian graduated from the University of Edinburgh as a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Genetics. The fact he has spent his entire career in aviation and travel journalism still surprises him. Madelyn Mills functions as the technical and operational lead for www.AirlinesAndDestinations.com. Madelyn is a lifelong aviation enthusiast and completed her private-pilot training during her senior year in high school. She brings years of experience in web analytics, I.T. and advertising sales to the team. Madelyn completed her undergraduate work in Communications and Spanish from Pacific Union College, including a year of studying and traveling abroad. She received a Masters degree in Corporate Communication from Baruch College. Madelyn currently lives in Seattle and enjoys activities such as gardening, ham radio, and aviation. Contributing Editors David Armstrong is a San Francisco Bay Area journalist specializing in features, news and reviews about travel destinations, airports, airlines, hotels and resorts. He is the former tourism, aviation and international trade reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and covered tourism, movies, media and theater for the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner. He is the author of five books and numerous travel articles for TheStreet.com, Travel + Leisure, Global Traveler, Napa Sonoma Magazine, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Toronto Star, Chicago Sun-Times, Aviation.com and many others. Carole Shifrin has been a Washington-based freelance writer for ten years. Her career includes 15 years at Aviation Week & Space Technology, where she served as Dallas Bureau Chief, London Bureau Chief and Senior Transport Editor, and 13 years as a staff writer at The Washington Post. Carole is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Lauren D. Lyman Award for distinguished, career-long achievement in aviation journalism. How to Get in Touch Please contact us using the telephone number or appropriate e-mail address above.