One advantage to the new system is that almost all airfares are upgradeable and travelers don’t have to play the buy-an-upgradeable-ticket game and then be stuck back in coach anyway.
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While airlines like to promote free tickets with their mileage programs, the award that many even semi-regular clients want is an upgrade. These are the very awards that are getting harder to get.
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Little thanks expected this holiday at NYC airports, nation’s worst air travel bottleneck
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This question has been asked seriously for at least the last five years, however, technology and cheap flights have turned back the tide. Until now. Today it seems there is a palpable buzz for video conferencing. New programs that compare the costs of video vs. travel, tighter travel budgets, international flu epidemics, environmental pressures and better, cheaper video technology are moving us closer to a tipping point.
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American Express Business Travel is predicting that global-wide international and long-haul business class airfares will rise between one and six percent in 2010.
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Sometimes the comments on an airline-sanctioned video are as interesting as the video itself. Delta Air Lines just posted these impressive images of its new lie-flat business class seat.
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Airlines losing premium passengers. Low cost carriers are not competing with each other, not only the big guys. Shanghai makes an effort to correct its funny-reading English signs.
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Some air travelers find in very difficult to sleep on those long night flights to Europe and Asia. Ned has some suggestions for you so you can get some shuteye.
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If you need to make long haul trips for business or pleasure, it may be less expensive to book an Around the World ticket. But finding the best buy takes talent — especially if you want to ride in the front of the plane.
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Why do airlines insist on feeding passengers when it’s long after the dinner hour? Even after midnight? If passengers haven’t already eaten, it’s because they don’t want to. That’s, of course, with the proviso that passengers are fed at all, which is rarely the case when when winging across the country on a domestic flight.
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