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Some airlines, including JetBlue, Delta and Continental are waiving change fees due to a nasty storm in the northeast. [Newsday]
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By 12.13.07
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US Airways is charging a $5 extra fee if you book on its own site. Yes, on the USairways.com site. [Upgrade Travel Better]
Man Chugs Entire Bottle Of Vodka Rather Than Turn It Over To Airport Security
By 12.12.07
Here’s a bad idea:
3 oz Rule Applies To Christmas Items Too
By 12.12.07
The TSA’s 3 ounce liquid/gel rule doesn’t just apply to shampoo and lotion, it also also applies to festive season items like pies, jams, salsas, sauces, syrups, dips, lotions, creams, scented oil, liquid soaps, perfumes, and snow globes. They also don’t want you flying with wrapped gifts but that’s just kind of a “please, thanks,” they’re not going to confiscate your presents. Yet.
AA Has Devil Lady For Check-In At Huntsville, Alabama Airport
By 12.12.07
Rodrigo writes of American Airlines, “In the last 4 travels between me, my wife and my father-in-law, ALL of them had been pretty bad. But the last one was the worst by far.” However, they had lots of miles to cash in, a tight budget, and travel needs, so it was back into the belly of the beast for one more adventure: “First nonsense of the day was when the lady there claimed the maximum was 50 pounds for the luggage. Ok here we go again.”
By 12.11.07
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Cincinnati is the most expensive city to flight out of. [WSJ]
By 12.11.07
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U.S. Airways is now suing the state of New Mexico, claiming that they do not have the right to deny them a liquor license. [KVIA]
U.S. Airways Offers Employees $100 Bonus For Meeting Baggage Goals
By 12.11.07
U.S. Airways has something of a problem when it comes to transporting their customers’ belongings. They’re just not very good at it, particularly in Philadelphia.
Travelocity Doesn't Know What A Funeral Is, You Pay Extra $279
By 12.10.07
On Nov 22 my 36 year old brother Mike died suddenly. So I quickly hoped on-line to get a flight from San Francisco to Pittsburgh, leaving Nov 24th.
American Airlines Avoids Fines For Chronically Late Flights
By 12.10.07
The Associated Press is taking the Transportation Department to task over data that seems to contradict its own findings. American Airlines operated two flights that have been late over 70% of the time for 3 consecutive quarters, making AA eligible for a total of $50,000 in fines, says the AP, but the DOT has failed to act.
The Best Alternate Airports In America
By 12.9.07
Flying to one of America’s numerous satellite airports can be faster and easier than charging into a congestion clogged airport that suffers delays on the sunniest days. Travel guru Peter Greenberg and his staff compiled a list of unlikely airports that can save you from the long lines and endless waits that plague traveler’s nightmares.
By 12.7.07
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TSA screener arrested for trespassing after flight attendants closed the cabin door while he was on board saying goodbye to his parents. [AP]
By 12.7.07
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American and Alaska Airlines will test letting people use full-fledged wi-fi in-flight this year. [NYT]
US Airlines CEO Eagerly Anticipating Inevitable Merger Party
By 12.6.07
Reuters has an extensive summary of a speech by US Airways CEO Doug “I’m OK To Drive” Parker in which he salivates over the inevitable merger party that is coming soon the airline industry.
JetBlue Testing Inflight Email
By 12.6.07
Bad News: You can only use YahooMail and YahooMessenger, or your WiFi-enabled Blackberry.
1(877)FLYERS6 – Stranded Holiday Traveler Help Line
By 12.5.07
If you’re stranded or heavily delayed at the airport this holiday season, you may want to have 1(877)FLYERS6 saved in your cellphone contacts. That’s a special free flyer hotline set up by the Coalition for an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights. They offer a variety of services, like emailing your family or business associates and let them know where you are, offering real-time weather and flight status information, and let you know about hotel or rental options, as well as help you deal with refund situations. If you’re stuck on the tarmac and not being let off the plane, they will pass the info on and try to get media out to the airport.
Cellphones Could Replace Boarding Passes
By 12.5.07
You might be able to board flights using just your cellphone, if a three-month test program by Continental Airlines at Houston International Airport is successful. Under the proposed system, a special code, in a mass of black and white boxes, gets sent to your cellphone or PDA. At the gate, the airline scans it with a barcode reader. You must still show photo ID. Air Canada has been using it since September and says the number of people using it has doubled every week since inception. Imagine that, a new security procedure that is both more secure, and more convenient. Just hope your batteries don’t run out.
Airlines Quietly Institute Annual Two-Bag Max Policy For Caribbean And Latin American Travel
By 12.3.07
If you’re traveling to Latin America or the Caribbean, don’t pack more than two bags, and don’t let them be overweight. People traveling to and from these countries have a propensity to pack heavily this time of year. And so every year at this time of year the airlines impose stringent restrictions, though you’ll have to do some Googling on the airlines’ sites to find mention of the policy. No worries, cougars only need one coat anyway.
