Brief summary of multiple cities.

Airline flight timetable interpretation

Included are flight timetables for two fake airlines that connect Paducah, KY to a sample of destinations covered in Chapters 6 and 7 of the course. Review the attached flight timetables. Both Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word versions were provided for your convenience. 

• Magnolia Airlines specializes in travel throughout the southeastern part of the United States and the tropics, but is certainly not limited to it. Through upgrades in service, it extended itself to other regions and a few foreign countries. Generally, the owner loves tropical destinations. So, warm destinations are showcased. But, other fun places are included as well.

• Confluence Northern Airlines specializes in Canadian travel, but efficiently includes service to Alaska and a selection of northern U.S. cities close to the Canada border as well. This airline is Paducah's connection to the "Great White North."

Directions:

1. Pretend you have an unlimited amount of money in your budget. Plan several vacation airline trips.

2. Review either the Magnolia Airlines timetable, the Confluence Northern Airlines timetable, or both.

3. From Paducah, KY, choose 10 destinations you would be interested in visiting. Do not choose destinations randomly. Create a pattern for your trips. Examples of patterns could be: capital cities, major league baseball cities, popular beach destinations, arts & crafts destinations, cities with fall festivals, food types, short distance flight times, long distance flight times, etc....You may use one of those examples or create your own pattern. In fact, the ability to create patterns is a major component of geography.

4. You may either choose multiple cities along the same path or separate trips for each city. Either way, each city you choose may count as a separate trip. For example: If you chose Paducah KY to Los Angeles, then Los Angeles to Honolulu, it counts as two cities: Los Angeles and Honolulu, even though the flight departed from Paducah KY just once. 

5. Next, use the online Frommer’s Travel Guide shown in the Resources tab, or http://www.frommers.com/, to learn about your selected destinations. You may also use this guide to learn about cities to determine if they fit your patterns.

6. Once you open the Frommer's web site, the best way to search is to choose the "Destinations" tab in the top-left corner, then scroll to select a continent (such as Caribbean & Atlantic, Central & S. America, or N. America), then choose a country, then choose a city or any other category that can lead you to your selected destination. If Frommer's Travel Guide does not have some of your selected destinations, then use another travel guide or search the Internet.

7. List 5 features of each of your selected cities. Your features may include hotels, restaurants, attractions, resorts, events, etc. In any case, try to choose features that are unique to the place. That is, avoid listing "corporate chains" that can be found in any city unless the feature is locally significant (20 points).

8. In a short paragraph about each city, describe your trip (20 points). Also, mention how each city fits the pattern of cities you set up (10 points) A meaningful pattern will earn more points. You will not get credit for weak patterns such as, "My favorite cities" or "Interesting places" or "Places where my friends live." You need to be a bit more specific than that.