If you book any of your travel online, you are likely to be inundated by emails from the airlines this time of year. Double miles with credit card purchases, offers for credit cards, special fare sales, and so on. But there is one type of email you want to be sure to read, if it’s [...]
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If you are one of those organized people who plan your other vacation in advance, beware of the involuntary flight downgrade. With the airlines reducing capacity, some routes may be eliminated completely.
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Over and over again, I read travel writers saying that travelers should use travel agents for complicated or exotic trips, but that generally they can just book “simple domestic trips” on their own online. Janice Hough suggests five reasons travel agents can help with simple trips.
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Not so long ago, airlines were offering bonus miles for online check-in. While that is no longer true, there are still some real bonuses that make it worth your while to try to hit the computer before you arrive at the airport.
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It’s easy to bash U.S. airlines. And most of the time, they deserve it. Some foreign carriers, like Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific, could give the rest of the world a lesson in how to run an airline. Others not.
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As airlines cut their schedules this fall, more passengers will experience the ups and downs — mostly the downs, actually — of their automatic rebooking programs.
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