This weekend we take a quick look at the bidding war for Washington DC slots, new taxes (well, old taxes reborn) on Canadians and padding expense reports.
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While we passengers are all but dropping our drawers to get on a airplane in the name of security, the passport office is issuing passports to bogus citizens with obvious ID problems. It was all part of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) sting.
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I’m constantly at war with myself, cheering on the advances in technology that have made life so much more pleasurable, easier and fuller, and cautious about how tempting that convenience is for those exploiting the baser side of human nature. Two recent hotel incidents help explain what I mean.
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It’s been nearly a decade since the Federal Trade Commission launched Operation Travel Unravel, a sweeping program that targeted travel industry fraud in America. Since then, the agency’s only major travel-related initiative — apart from an enforcement action or two — appears to have been to launch an interactive game designed to increase consumer awareness of travel industry mischief.
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Southwest Airlines is the top air carrier in the United States. No, wait, it’s American Airlines. Hang on — make that Virgin America. The best hotel? The Peninsula Chicago. No, no. It’s The Waldorf Astoria in New York.
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If you’ve flown out of Toronto’s Lester B. Pearson International Airport recently and you’ve used one of their check in-kiosks, you may want to check your credit card statement and your credit report. An investigation is underway on the security of its 150 self-service check-in kiosks.
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Two San Jose travel agents have been convicted after pleading guilty on 13 charges of defrauding their customers out of more than $1 million.
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