Cell phones may actually interfere with airline navigation, hurricane season tips, Six Flags Texas debuts hybrid coaster, airlines collected $6B in fees
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Shouldn’t travelers be immune to the sequester? After all, our mandatory travel user fees associated with flying are not dropping. Why are we being threatened with cutbacks in services that we pay for every time we fly, go through security or re-enter the country?
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Delta collected the most fees, exploding coffee filters in airline galleys, Boeing 787 to undergo full review
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United reveals new United Club, Southwest to introduce no-show fee, new radar for ground vehicles at Logan
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Ever since airlines added new economy-class seat reservation fees, they’ve insisted that the new charges would not lead to families with young kids being separated. And, I believed it — until I heard from Vicki Wallace.
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These thought provoking stories start with a question about who owns the data created by your automobile such as functionality and tracking your movements. When can possible future deaths influence federal policy? Should it? And, onerous fees spread from airlines to other areas of travel.
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Like many resort hotels, the Marriott San Juan Resort and Stellaris Casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico, adds a fee to its daily room rate to cover amenities such as bottled water, a casino coupon, local phone calls and wireless Internet. It doesn’t matter whether you use the services — Marriott’s fee is mandatory.
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Imagine you are in your favorite supermarket, but this time something is different. The overhead index says “Bread – Aisles 2, 5, 8, 11, 15″ and Milk says “Aisles 1, 4, 9, 13, 16″ and so on. The owner has the idea that if he makes it harder for shoppers to compare products and prices, more will buy higher priced items than they might have under the old layout where most comparable products were displayed side by side or very close to each other.
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Since Allegiant Air’s decision to start charging passengers for carry-on luggage last week, you’d think that everything needed to be said about this outrageous new fee had already been said. Maybe not.
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To say that air travelers spend as much time complaining about fees and surcharges as they do flying might not be much of an exaggeration. And now the airline industry wants you to add another complaint to that list: taxes.
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