Do New Airfare Rules Help Or Hurt Consumers?
In February, the Department of Transportation enacted new rules requiring airlines to reveal all mandatory taxes and fees. The new rules will force ai...
In February, the Department of Transportation enacted new rules requiring airlines to reveal all mandatory taxes and fees. The new rules will force ai...
George Hobica | Posted 03.27.2012
If you're an airline, January 26, 2012 is a day that will go down in infamy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Brady | Posted 01.19.2012
Airline customers are in for sticker shock. New Department of Transportation rules will force airlines to advertise higher, all-inclusive prices be...
AP | Posted 12.29.2011
PHILADELPHIA -- Concerns over vehicle and driver safety led federal regulators to shut down a bus company that took passengers from several cities to ...
aviationblog.dallasnews.com | Posted 12.28.2011
Southwest Airlines Co. and some other carriers are fighting the U.S. Department of Transportation over a new airfare advertising rule scheduled to tak...
George Hobica | Posted 01.31.2012
Many of the airline shenanigans I hear about raise my blood pressure. And although the US DOT has recently come up with some new regulations, I think we need some other rules to protect passengers.
Harris Silver | Posted 01.18.2012
The way you drive affects your efficiency performance. With an efficiency gauge you experience this in real time. By watching the gauge, you learn how to drive more efficiently.
Kate Hanni | Posted 01.18.2012
The fact is that American Eagle was fined for loading 15 aircraft that they knew had no chance of making an on-time departure and for those flights' passengers spending hours on the tarmac.
Christine Negroni | Posted 01.10.2012
It's apparent that the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board is a beauty. I've heard people describe her as "angelic." Here's her photo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 10.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- The State Department on Friday released its final environmental assessment of the Keystone XL, removing a major barrier to the construct...
Michael Likosky | Posted 09.05.2011
Tough economic times demand that not only foundations but also individuals and governments embrace this leveraging. I call this new approach to giving Crisis Philanthropy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.06.2011
WASHINGTON -- Continuing his very public campaign to encourage urban biking as an alternative to automotive transportation, U.S. Transportation Secret...
Christine Negroni | Posted 11.17.2011
The largest expense categories for airlines are those most difficult to control; fuel and labor. They simply can't fly a planeload of passengers for what they make on tickets alone.
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a weekend bicyclist, might consider keeping his head down and his helmet on. A backlash is bre...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Airline passengers would receive as much as $1,300 for being bumped from a flight and would have 24 hours to cancel reservations wi...
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger President Barack Obama announced this week that his administration would open areas from Delaware to Florid...
AP | SAMANTHA BOMKAMP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — JetBlue and Delta want temporary exemptions from a new government rule that will limit the time passengers can be held on the tarmac....
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Among the members of Barack Obama's cabinet, Ray LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation, is perhaps the least glorified. A former member of Congress,...
Posted 03.06.2012