"Open Skies" Air Travel Treaty So Far Little Help To Flyers
Ending government limits on flights between the U.S. and Europe was supposed to ignite lots of new competition and offer consumers cheaper fares acros...
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Should Airlines Give Bottled Water to Flyers?
Graham Hill | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green
I don't promote bottled water, but the plane is a place where it actually might make sense. At the end of one long-haul flight you can easily find yourself with five one-time use plastic cups on your hands. Five!
Air Travelers Hit With Higher Prices And Fewer Options
AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business
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CHICAGO — First it was soaring ticket prices and vanishing bargain fares, then new baggage fees. Now air travelers are facing dwindling choices ...
Attention Jet Setters Who Snore
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
Air travel just got more dangerous. A new report just came out indicating that flying strains the hearts of people with sleep apnea.
Air Travel Hassles Cost The Economy $26B
CNN Money | Ben Rooney | Posted 06.07.2008 | Business
The dysfunctional air travel system is causing many Americans to avoid air travel and the economy is suffering as a result, according to a survey rele...
Paper Airline Tickets Finished: Airlines To Go All Electronic June 1st
Huffington Post | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business
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Major U.S. airlines recently announced that they were raising their prices. Now the the whole industry is throwing a curveball at travelers: as of Ju...
Delta, Northwest: No Layoffs, Hub Closings For Now
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | RUSSELL GRANTHAM, JIM THARPE | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
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Delta and Northwest airlines announced a $17.7 billion merger Monday night that will create the world's largest carrier -- headquartered in Atlanta wi...
Airlines Kill "The Quickie"
Perry Yeatman | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
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As a plea from one hard working, frequent traveling American, could everybody please just get together and sort out this mess!
Why Is AA's MD-80 Still In Use?
BusinessWeek | Justin Bachman | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business
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The jet at the center of American Airlines' flight travails gulps gas and rumbles about in a far noisier fashion than newer models. It first took flig...
Complaints About Airlines on the Rise
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
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WASHINGTON — Late flights and lost bags, to say nothing of higher fares, are making air travelers grumpy, an annual survey of airline quality sa...
Appeals Court Rejects N.Y. Airline Law
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
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NEW YORK — A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down a state law requiring airlines to give food, water, clean toilets and fresh air to passen...
United, Continental Raise Fares
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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NEW YORK — Two of the nation's biggest airlines boosted round-trip fares by as much as much as $50 heading into the weekend, raising the stakes ...
10 Things I Like About Business Travel
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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The best part of business travel? Coming home.
2007 Airline Delays 2nd Worst Ever
AP | DAN CATERINICCHIA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — A quarter of domestic flights failed to arrive on time in 2007 _ the industry's second poorest performance on record _ and analysts...
TSA Blog Lets Travelers Air Grievances
AP | DAN CATERINICCHIA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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WASHINGTON — Frustrated by long airport-security lines? Certain those screeners aren't paying attention? Wondering why your grandma always gets ...
Plane Crazy: Airline Delays Expected To Increase In 2008
New York Times | Jeff Bailey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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The miserably full flights of 2007 might seem like a good reason for airlines to roll out a few more planes and ease the crowding. But passengers sho...
Bush Tries To Cut Airline Delays
Reuters | John Crawley | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
President George W. Bush plans to outline steps on Thursday aimed at relieving airline congestion, a move designed to boost industry performance and e...
Airport Screeners At LAX Missed 75 Percent Of Fake Bombs
USA Today | Thomas Frank | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Security screeners at two of the nation's busiest airports failed to find fake bombs hidden on undercover agents posing as passengers in more than 60%...
Airbus To Deliver First New "Superjumbo" Jet
BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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Airbus is set to hand over its first finished A380 "superjumbo" to Singapore Airlines on Monday, 18 months behind schedule. The construction of the A...
Unfriendly Skies: America's Worst Airlines
Forbes Via ABC News | TOM VAN RIPER and ROBERT MALONE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
As air travelers' summer of hell draws to a close, stories of canceled flights, lost luggage and late arrivals abound. But while it might seem that th...
Woman Booted By Southwest For Skimpy Outfit Sees Red Over New Ad Campaign
ABC News | Hanna Siegel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The woman who was singled out by Southwest Airlines for wearing an outfit deemed too skimpy by a flight attendant says she's been victimized a second ...
Beijing Debuts World's Largest Airport Terminal
Times of London | Jane Macartney | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
China offered a first glimpse into the world's biggest airport terminal yesterday and admitted that the £1.8 billion colossus will soon be too small ...
Second Woman Says Southwest Asked Her To Cover Up
AP Via CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
A second young woman has come forward to claim that Southwest Airlines employees made her cover up on a recent flight, leading jet-setters to ask: Wil...
Passenger Incivility Returns Six Years After 9/11
Wall Street Journal | Susan Carey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
For a brief time after Sept. 11, 2001, civility seemed to reign in the skies above America. "We had the most humble passengers ever," says Frank Slad...
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