BA flight attendants go on strike, NW/DL pilots who overshot MSP airport can regain licenses, co-pilot minimum hours increased by FAA and Senate
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Forbes presents some thumbnail etiquette advice for the world’s most visited countries. Here are is a sample from each country. You never know when a social gaffe might destroy a budding friendship.
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Over the past year and certainly over the last few months, fears about the effects of radiation on passengers passing through whole-body scanners have been splashed across newspaper headlines. The bottom line from researchers: Its OK. It would take something like 1,000 screenings per individual per year to exceed radiation standards. We are safe! Radiation won’t kill us. But, what about all of those TSA screeners?
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Where are our Congressional watchdogs these days? When it comes to counter-terrorism issues, they are all hiding. No one wants to seem to be soft on terror even as our pockets are being picked by misdirected spending and millions of Americans are facing more and more travels hassles.
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In the Big Apple, they do it bigger. Someone once told me that as I was walking through the office-building canyons in midtown. It was a good thing I wasn’t driving through these same canyons in a taxi. I may have been being fleeced without my knowledge.
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In yet another sign that the Transportation Department is serious about protecting the rights of consumers, the government this morning fined US Airways $40,000 for failing to disclose the full price consumers must pay for air transportation.
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McCarran drops on world’s busiest list, Boeing to boost production on 737, 777, planes may use biofuel in next ten years
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When Dimple Kelley used a service called Bill Me Later to book a Continental Airlines ticket for her son, Brian, she never imagined she’d be fighting with the payment company’s collection department half a year later. But then, no one can see a nightmare ending like this coming until it’s too late.
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As a British Airways strike appears increasingly likely to happen this weekend, an old axiom comes to mind “It could always be worse.” Travelers who have already scrambled to reschedule canceled flights might doubt that. Alas, it can get worse, and is likely, to get much worse.
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Many of us have reported staying in rooms with bugs, nasty tubs, and lousy views, but at least five people can claim they got a room with a corpse.
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