Drive about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh and you’ll find a place to order up McDonald’s most famous sandwich… but what you’ll get is much more than just two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, and onions on a sesame seed bun.
North Huntingdon—-located in western Pennsylvania–is the new home of the Big Mac Museum Restaurant. Fittingly, it is situated just 40 miles north of where the very first double burger, triple bun sandwich was served in Uniontown four decades ago for just 45 cents.
To celebrate the museum’s big opening today the restaurant rewarded the first 100 customers through the door a certificate good for one Big Mac sandwich every week for a year. If you couldn’t make it over to the museum in time, don’t fret the restaurant-museum-historical theme park doesn’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon.
However, when you do visit plan to stay a while to explore the unique Big Mac memorabilia. The building features the world’s largest Big Mac — 14 feet tall and 12 feet wide — a high-tech global Big Mac map and seven flat panel LCD display screens that run vintage McDonald’s commercials.
Speaking of things big and juicy… Delta Air Lines just made a big announcement about some juicy travel deals.
The carrier’s new CEO unwrapped a big gift today: low fares for leisure travelers.
If you fly out of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport consider yourself lucky. The airline said it plans to cut the average leisure flight by roughly 20% to more than 60 U.S. cities from the regional airport. That’s a hefty savings of about $80 per round-trip ticket.
For those of you who don’t know, “leisure fares” are defined as those booked at least 21 days in advance and require a Saturday night stay.
So why was the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport chosen for the rate reduction? According to Delta executives, the fare change was prompted by two separate surveys released this summer by the Department of Transportation, which found the local airport — where Delta has more than 80% of the market — had the nation’s highest fares.
And more good news if you fly out of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, company officials said the changes should not be regarded as a sales promotion—this is no promo. Rather, the carrier says the lower fares are a permanent switch and acknowledged that the routes included in the cuts had been previously “uncompetitive” in price.
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