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A new website, BestTripChoices.com, claims it can profile your "travel personality" based on a short questionnaire. I recently gave the site a whirl. I answered a 15-question quiz, and the website concluded I was a "centric venturer," one of six personality profiles. Other personalities include "authentics," who tend to opt for familiar and well-established tourist destinations, and "venturers," who enjoy spontaneous, adventuresome trips to unique or barely charted locales. Most travelers fall somewhere in the middle, leaning slightly toward one extreme. However skeptical I might have been, the description for my personality was, for the most part, fairly accurate. It recognized that, although I may think of myself as an adventuresome traveler (and who doesn't?), I still look forward the assurance of a warm bed at the end of a long day. While centric venturers visit exotic destinations and mix modes of transportation, they tend to return to a trusted, favorite vacation spot every few years. Interestingly, centric venturers move on once an area has become overly touristy or commercialized: "When over-commercialization sets in, signified by many souvenir shops, the intrusion of fast food outlets, and the diesel smell from too many tourist buses, you will move on to some other place that has not yet lost its qualities of freshness and uniqueness." The quiz makes bold predictions about where travelers with your personality like to visit. It even offers travel suggestions, such as "you might visit smaller towns and enjoy leisurely drives through the countryside." If you take the quiz here, please tell us if you think the results accurately portray your travel personality.—Liz McKenzie MORE BY LIZ MCKENZIE It's a Texas Yamboree!.

The Transportation Department plans to limit flights at J.F.K. airport, according to sources who spoke anonymously to the The New York Times in a story published this morning. Last January, Congress lifted limits on the number of takeoffs and landings allowed at Kennedy airport. Since then, airlines have scheduled too many flights there. Airlines are scheduling about 100 flights an hour at Kennedy, and during peak demand hours, even more than that. But last summer, the airport was only able to handle about 80 takeoffs an hour, given summer storms and related delays, according to the Wall Street Journal. The math is obvious. There will be about 20 fewer flights on average out of Kennedy, if the Transportation Department and the Federal Aviation Administration impose limits as expected. Fewer flights mean that airlines will be able to charge more per flight. Fares are likely to rise because the other area airports are unlikely to be able to pick up more flights on their own. But nothing is decided yet. The airlines are likely to fight any flight limits in court or by enlisting allies in Congress to pressure the federal agencies. Here's why: Let's say that 20 flights a day are cut. If those 20 fewer flights cut the service of smaller airlines, such as Spirit and AirTran, the airlines will likely say that the system is unfair (anti-competitive) and arbitrary, especially if it appears to only apply to a single major airport. JetBlue is likely to be hurt the most, given that it flies more planes out of Kennedy than Delta, American, American Eagle, and United Airlines combined. If the 20 fewer flights cut the service of the major airlines, such as Delta and United, those airlines might go to court. The major airlines would argue that the government is wrongfully taking the existing assets that they have invested to improve terminals. While federal agencies have a lot of leeway to do what they want with commercial airspace, they also are sensitive to political pressure and the potential hassles of judicial hearings and congressional interference. Kennedy serves more than 80 airlines and an average of 65,000 travelers a day. Along with Newark and La Guardia airports, New York has the world's most crowded airspace, and more than a third of the country's flight delays happen there—causing delays to ripple nationwide, as was clearly explained by a recent story in New York magazine. EARLIER Rage in the skies.

In answer to our weekly questions, you've shared your knowledge on travel destinations near and far—from the Caribbean to New Orleans. Now tell us: What's your travel resolution for 2008? Is it a new adventure, a return to a favorite place, an urban exploration, or a journey to a remote destination? Share your thoughts by posting a comment.

This week, The New York Times prompted hundreds of people to write in comments when it published an article called "Aboard Planes, Class Conflict." The Times also launched a very promising blog, Jet Lagged, which will focus on "flying the unfriendly skies" during the month of December. A typical post is by longtime Practical Traveler columnist Betsy Wade, who writes, "To be blunt, I now hate those people in first class." Hate is a strong word, but you can feel intense anger pulsing in online forums. When this blog recently invited readers to tell off the airlines, we received 140 responses. For some people, the problem has been the record flight delays, such as a 7-day flight delay this summer at J.F.K. airport. For other travelers, the frustration has been the long tarmac delays, such as the 7-hour delay whose absurdity was captured in a seven-minute YouTube video by a passenger. (Tarmac delays got so bad this fall, for example, that editor Erik Torkells went so far as to say, "The federal government MUST declare a maximum time that passengers can be held on the tarmac.") For still other travelers, the aggravation comes from increased security delays. Complaints about airport checkpoints skyrocketed this year. If you want to see what the Times readers are saying, visit the new blog Jet Lagged.