If you think it costs too much to fly now, you’re not going to like what airlines have in store for the summer.
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Budget
Douglas Hawkins and his wife reserve a Budget rental car in Naples, Italy, but when they arrive at the car rental counter, the company downgrades his car and nearly doubles its rate. Six months later, Budget hasn’t refunded the money Hawkins says it owes him. What now?
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Skybus Airlines ceased operations Saturday, citing a slowing economy and rising jet fuel costs.
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A gallon of gas hit a new record, above $3.30 a gallon, Friday and was poised to rise higher in the coming weeks.
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Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said Tuesday that his office will be keeping watch over Carnival Corp. and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. to follow through on their fuel-surcharge refunds.
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When Alamo runs out of the kind of car Steve Chan has reserved in Ireland, it offers to set him up with a car from another company. Chan is led to believe that he’ll pay the same rate, but when his credit card bill arrives, he discovers he’s been billed more than twice the price he was first quoted. Now Alamo won’t refund the difference. Does Chan have a case? Christopher Elliott looks into the problem.
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RickSeaney.com reports that the major legacy carriers have matched United’s $50 round-trip fare hike. Northwest was the last holdout.
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Florida’s attorney general has settled with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. to reimburse passengers for a deceptive fuel charge.
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