Sometimes parents have little choice, but to send their children to a distant location via airplane, alone, unaccompanied by a parent or other relative. Ned Levi follows up his column about serious problems of Chloe Boyce’s Southwest Airlines trip, unaccompanied by her mother, with information and suggestions about sending your child on a plane flight alone.
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Walton needed to cancel her reservation a day before her arrival. “An agent told me they would charge a $100 fee – the price of one night,” she says. “So even if they are able to rebook the room I will not get a refund.”
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What are your rights when a hotel cancels your reservation, leaving you room-less? And to what extent is your travel agent responsible for finding you alternate accommodations?
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AA alliance may win antitrust OK, flight cancellations climb in May, court backs fee fight with airlines
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As awful as it is when a flight is canceled due to a storm, in some cases it can be even more frustrating when a flight doesn’t show canceled and it’s nearly impossible to figure if it will fly or not. While changing weather has created chaos all week, here are a few tips to [...]
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The truth be told, technology has had a lot to do with the new ways that airlines can handle weather delays. Automatic telephone software, the ubiquity of cell phones. text messaging and automatic rescheduling software have changed the cancellation world of both passengers and the airlines.
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During the holidays, I attempted to log into my Wyndham Rewards account to book a hotel stay and discovered my account had been closed and I had lost 5,500 points, 500 points short of a one-night stay.
I contacted Wyndham Rewards and was told that my account had been closed because there had been no activity for 18 months. I was surprised, not at the policy, but because I had never received written or electronic statements or notification of my expiration date.
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In a blow to Boeing, one of Russia’s airline, S7, has become the first airline to cancel its order for the 787 Dreamliner. The jet hasn’t even gone on test flights and it’s about two years behind schedule.
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The Department of Transportation released its monthly Air Travel Consumer Report (PDF) Friday, giving us on-time, mishandled baggage and consumer complaint data for September. There have been several news reports on the high-level glamor stuff, but what about the parts of the iceberg under the water?
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American Airlines insists it had a handshake deal with the FAA to fix its MD-80 wiring problems over a 60-day period to keep from having to cancel flights. No way, says the FAA. Maintenance on hundreds of jets was “so sloppy” that it posed a safety risk, the agency claims.
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