Airlines now say new rule violates right to free speech
Later this month a new rule will take effect that will foce the airlines to show fares including taxes and fees and ban post-purchase price increases. The airlines, though, say that it’s not fair because it’s not applied to other industries.
“The odd thing is this type of regulation does not apply to any other industry,” Steve Lott, a spokesman for Airlines for America, the industry’s largest trade group told NPR, pointing out that rental car agencies don’t have to disclose taxes and fees in their ads, nor do retailers who sell televisions.
Airlines don’t like that idea at all and contend that the rule is an attempt by the government to re-regulate them and violates their right to free speech.
Plane u-turns after mobile phone found
An Air France plane bound for Paris had to turn back to Houston after a cell phone was found.
Flight AF639 was obliged to make the U-turn 30 minutes after takeoff for security reasons, given that no owner of the device was identified, said an Air France spokesman.
Bellagio completes $70 million renovation
The Bellagio in Las Vegas completed a renovation that included upgrading all of its rooms in the main tower.
Rooms at the 14-year-old Las Vegas hotel now have three distinct design motifs, including two color palettes for its Resort King rooms and another for its Resort Queen rooms.
Hotel owner MGM Resorts International started the renovations last June.
