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United Ends Preboarding Policy For Families With Small Kids
By Chris Morran on May 25, 2012 1:02 PM
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While airlines love to put out press releases for even the smallest improvements in service, they tend to be pretty quiet when they do something that might tick off customers. Thus, many people are just learning now that back in April, United Airlines ended its policy of allowing families with small children to board flights early. More »
Airbus Working On Wider Aisle Seats That Will Cost More
By Chris Morran on May 25, 2012 12:00 PM
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Airline passengers have proven they are willing to pay for minor luxuries like legroom and early boarding, and airlines have proven their willingness to collect those fees. Thus, the folks at Airbus are working on a seating arrangement that would give some people wider seats and allow the carriers to make some more cash. More »
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Navigating Your Way Through The Fees To Cheaper "Free" Miles
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
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Hurray, you've got some free airline miles to use! The bummer part? Carriers are adding more and bigger surcharges on those frequent flyer miles. There are ways to get the most from your miles, however, without offering up too much of your cash in fees. More »
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Disney Cruise Line Places Alleged iPhone Thief On Administrative Leave
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 24, 2012 10:00 AM
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Well, "Nelson"... If you really did take a passenger's iPhone while working on a Disney cruise ship, it was silly of you to take photos of your stolen phone shenanigans, because now you've been caught. More »
5 Ways To Save Money By Spending Money
By Laura Northrup on May 24, 2012 9:40 AM
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It seems counter-intuitive, but frugality doesn't always necessarily mean clutching your wallet with a vise grip and refusing to spend on non-essentials. Sometimes spending a little more doesn't just make your life easier: it can save you money in the long run. More »
Truck Spills 55,000 Pounds Of Bottled Beer On The Ground, None Is Passed Around
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 23, 2012 3:15 PM
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Quick, get out your straws and empty your pitchers! A big rig traveling in Florida near Daytona Beach was carrying 55,000 pounds of bottled beer when it overturned, spilling all that foamy, alcoholic liquid onto the road. More »
U.S. Airways Passenger Arrested After Saying She Has "Surgically Implanted Device" Inside Her
By Chris Morran on May 22, 2012 2:15 PM
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A U.S. Airways flight en route from Paris to North Carolina had to be rerouted to Bangor, Maine, where an allegedly unruly passenger was arrested because she reportedly told a member of the cabin crew she had a "surgically implanted device" inside of her body. More »
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Spending 40 Hours A Year Stuck In Traffic Doesn't Sound Like Much Fun
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 22, 2012 2:00 PM
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There are a lot of things you can fill 40 hours of your life with. Gazing at waterfalls, eating a few wheels of cheese, taking some nice long walks with your dog or flying to Fiji — the possibilities are endless. All of those things are better than spending more than an average of 40 hours sitting idle in traffic a year, which is what one study says is true for Americans in 10 cities. More »
NYC Airports Installing Avatars That Get Chatty Upon Being Approached
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 22, 2012 1:00 PM
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They aren't tall, blue and skilled with flying beasts, but avatars installed at certain airports could provide useful information for travelers soon. If you can't find an actual warm body to assist you, you'll be able to just walk up to one of these flat-screen helpers and have it start talking. More »
Extra Fees For Aisle & Window Seats Means Families Who Fly Together Won't Always Sit Together
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 21, 2012 4:00 PM
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Flying with kids or in a large group can be tough, which is why it'd be ideal for families to be able to sit together. But now that some airlines are reserving window and aisle seats for customers willing to pay extra for them, or frequent fliers, it could mean some families having to split up on the plane. More »
Pizza Hut Thinks We Should Eat Pasta With Our Fingers
By Laura Northrup on May 21, 2012 10:30 AM
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Jeff and his wife were traveling, and had a hankering for one of Pizza Hut's pasta dishes. They ordered up some starch-laden caloriffic goodness from The Hut's website, then followed up with a phone call to say, "hey, we're staying in a motel, can you send along some plastic forks?" This was evidently too much for the local Pizza Hut to handle. Which is kind of odd, considering that they deliver food and all. More »
Fraudulent eBay Buyer Leaves You Minus $1000 And A MacBook Pro
By Laura Northrup on May 21, 2012 9:30 AM
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Earlier this month, Jacob sold a MacBook Pro on eBay. His buyer appeared to be in Australia, but contacted him after payment and asked to have the computer shipped to Indonesia. Since he's both a Consumerist reader and a person with a functioning brain, Jacob was wary of this change, suspecting some kind of fraud. He called up eBay to see what he should do. The customer service representative told him that he needed to mail the laptop, or it would negatively affect his seller account. So he sent it along, then heard from eBay less than 24 hours later that the buyer's account had been compromised. You don't say! Now Jacob is out both a laptop and the $1,023.74 payment. More »
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New Shoes Hurt, New Balance Replaces Them
By Laura Northrup on May 18, 2012 11:35 AM
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Sean's new shoes hurt his feet. When he realized that this wasn't because he was out of shape or had bought the wrong size, he figured it had been too long since buying the shoes, and he wouldn't be able to return them. Not so when the shoes were from New Balance, purveyors of sneaker awesomeness. More »
Flying While Fat: Research And Self-Awareness Mean Smooth Travel
By Laura Northrup on May 17, 2012 11:33 AM
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Reader Mechpaul is a large man. He used to avoid flying, afraid of what would happen if he was too big for his seat, encroaching on his neighbors' space and potentially being humiliated and marched off the plane. Instead of approaching his flight with fear, he armed himself with two essential tools: a measuring tape and the Internet. He used these to find out whether he would fit in a United Airlines seat, and to plan accordingly. More »
Survey Finds Best & Worst Airlines For Redeeming Rewards Miles
By Chris Morran on May 17, 2012 11:15 AM
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It's incredibly easy to pile up airline miles. I think I just earned 400 miles for merely mentioning this fact. But as you may have already discovered, it's not always so simple to actually redeem those miles. A new survey looked at dozens of domestic and international carriers to find which ones were more likely to have seats available for rewards travel. More »
Delayed Air Canada Passengers Pass Time With Free In-Plane Concert
By Chris Morran on May 16, 2012 1:30 PM
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Being stuck on a delayed, crowded plane — even for a short period of time — can be an ordeal. But for Air Canada passengers waiting on the tarmac to take off for their flight to Bucharest, they were lucky (or perhaps unlucky, depending on your taste in music) to be traveling with members of the Lemon Bucket Orkestra. More »
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Spirit Airlines Won't Let Woman Change Name On Reservation, Forcing Her To Buy Another Ticket
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 15, 2012 11:00 AM
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A young woman who makes $7.40 an hour needed a bit of help to buy a flight to go visit her U.S. Navy boyfriend while he had two weeks of shore duty. So, three months before the planned visit, Katherine's dad let her use his credit card to purchase a $477 flight on Spirit Airlines through Orbitz. Unfortunately, his name somehow ended up as the traveler. More »
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Why Does A 10-Second Collect Call Cost $37.66?
By Chris Morran on May 14, 2012 1:30 PM
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When a Michigan man's traveling parents called him collect from a payphone a couple hours away, he expected to see a couple bucks on his next bill for the call he says was anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds in duration. But he definitely wasn't expecting to be hit with a charge for $37.66. More »
AT&T Can Unlock Your iPhone, But Only If You Leave AT&T
By Laura Northrup on May 10, 2012 9:35 AM
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We often hear from readers who can't get their mobile phone carriers to provide unlock codes so they can use their phone on a different network, even just while traveling abroad. AT&T only recently started providing unlock codes to customers with iPhones, and Josh managed to get one for his iPhone 4S. There was one weird condition: he had to sever his ties with AT&T forever. They couldn't provide the code and keep him as a customer. Wha? More »
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Man Tells TSA He Has No Idea How Gun Parts Got In His Son's Stuffed Animals
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 9, 2012 12:00 PM
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It's unfortunate when gun parts show up when you least expect them. Say, in your son's stuffed toy while going through security at an airport. A man traveling with his four-year-old told officials at T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island that he didn't know how handgun parts ended up in his kid's three stuffed animals. More »
