Favorite defunct airlines, 10 best travel apps, most romantic cities in Canada (unknown to many Americans)
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We’ve all seen that “great deal” airline ad, only to discover that with surcharges, taxes and fees, the great deal is not-so-great. Starting today, when airline consumers see an advertised price of $500 that will be the price they pay.
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Consumers are coming up to crunch time in the hard work that has gone towards mandating that airlines reveal fees to consumers. This has been a struggle that has been proceeding since spring of 2010. It has gone on through one completed rulemaking that will fully come into effect on January 24th and 26th. Then a new proposed rulemaking focused on price transparency is scheduled to follow in mid-2012.
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Since cats and dogs can’t fly, they are forced to share some of the space that we humans have when we want to fly and bring them along. Dogs and cats have their share of headaches, rules and regulations just like we do. Maybe more.
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Here are five predictions for the coming year. All in all, I think consumers are going to come out ahead in the coming year, airlines are going to find a road to profitability, TSA will streamline its inspection processes, airport restaurants and services will get better, communications about delays, cancellations and weather will make quantum leaps with new smartphone technology, and the overall world of airline travel will improve.
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With load factors pushing and sometimes exceeding 80 percent, planes and airports can’t get much more crowded than they have been for the last half of this year. In fact, the airlines association has predicted that the numbers of travelers this holiday season will be less (gasp) than last year. But load factors will be [...]
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That’s the funny thing about the travel industry. For a business that, with a few notable exceptions, thinks nothing of offending its customers most of the year, the short-lived transformation during the holidays is incredible. It’s as if someone turned back the clock and made common courtesy and customer service important again.
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Priceline gives us this simple list to make travel during the holidays easier and hassle free. Of course, we can’t account for delays and weather, we can proactively make sure that we are ready to travel and ready for situations that we may face while underway.
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This weekend we take a look at the art of the often-taken-for-granted airline safety card, ask why AA decided to go bankrupt with billions of dollars in the bank and read about the E.U. decision to ban x-ray backscatter whole-body scanners.
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