New DOT rules are putting increased pressure on airlines to show full prices. But, while consumers focus on ticket prices, baggage fees are subtly heading up.
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American Airlines
I planned an once-in-a-lifetime trip for my two children and me to South Africa a few months ago. I used a travel agency to book my airline tickets.
My travel agent told me the flight was made with American Airlines. As the date got closer, I called American and was told the booking was there but hadn’t been paid. I was very upset and immediately confirmed and paid for the reservation. It was start of a fiasco.
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AA to cut 13,000 jobs from across company, survey finds WiFi tops traveler’s wished for hotel amenities, Westin rolls out new gyms
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Southwest flights coming to Memphis, LaHood to resign at end of Obama’s first term, US Airways making offer to merge or buy AA
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Airlines recruit chefs to make on-board meals, TSA to test airport scanner operators for radiation, where are all the LCCs?
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Need status on American Airlines? January is your month! If you’re short a couple thousand miles to earn status on American, then January is your month. Usually, passengers need to fly at least 25,000 miles to reach gold status on the airline, but a double miles promotion (until the end of January) has reduced that [...]
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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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AMR’s $30M townhouse discovered in bankruptcy, Thai ladyboy flight attendants, Top 10 Las Vegas buffets, business class seats filled with heavy gadgets
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With the Chapter 11 filing of American Airlines, the airline claims, for passengers, everything will be as it was, hunky-dory; not so for its workers. Now, the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the government safety net for corporate pension programs, publicly states that AA should not look to the agency as a place to toss their commitments to their employees.
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