September
3, 2010
Travel-On/Travel
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Hurricane
Earl will slam North Carolina's Outer Banks tonight.
Earl's next stop
is Long Island and Cape Cod. Millions of people will
be affected by this massive storm. Check out the latest
on evacuations, warnings, and Earl's projected path. Read
more
Airlines
Offering Waivers Because of Hurricane Earl
At least five big
U.S airlines have waived change fees for customers
flying into the path of Hurricane Earl, which threatens
to disrupt flight schedules just as the Labor Day
holiday weekend begins. Continental, Delta, US Airways,
AirTran and Frontier are among the carriers that have
instituted special policies to allow customers to
make hurricane-related changes to their itineraries.
List of airlines below: Read
more
CWT
North America Releases 2011 Travel Forecast
Carlson
Wagonlit Travel North America has released to its
clients forecasted 2011 pricing and rate information
for air travel, hotel stays, use of ground transportation,
and meeting and event spending in North America. CWT
anticipates a number of suppliers will successfully
implement price increases next year, indicating overall
increases in business travel demand as economic conditions
in North America continue to improve. Read
more
You
Paid What for That Flight?
Airline ticket
prices often seem like a brain-teaser with little
logic. From Chicago, a flight to Miami is more than
twice as far as a flight to Memphis, but the shorter
Memphis flight costs 25% more on average. Fly to Washington,
D.C., from Hartford, Conn., and the average fare is
nearly three times as high as if you flew to nearby
Baltimore from Hartford, according to government data
for the first quarter of this year. Read
more
Delta
trims regional jet fleet
There will soon be fewer 50-seat
regional jets flying under the Delta Air Lines brand.
That's because Delta announced plans on Wednesday "to
park half of the regional jets in the fleet of its
Comair subsidiary over the next two years and cut
its number of employees at its Cincinnati hub," USA
TODAY reports. Read
more
Should
The Government Re-Regulate The Airline Industry?
After
the justice department approved the merger of Continental
Airlines and United Airlines last Friday, Congressman
James Oberstar (D-Minn) voiced his displeasure again
with the merger and suggested that Congress might
just need to reconsider the deregulation of airlines
that happened in 1978. Read
more
JetBlue
is adding Boston to Newark service
JetBlue
Airways said it plans to offer new daily nonstop service
to Newark from Logan International Airport, starting
next May. The move will open up an expensive business
route to low-fare competition, JetBlue said in a press
release. Read
more
Disclose
airline fees up front
Before
you buy something, it's nice to know what it costs.
For most products, that's not an issue. At the service
station, for example, you see the price, including
taxes, for every grade of gasoline before you pump. Read
more
Updated
'Fly Rights' Guide Released By DOT
On Tuesday,
the Department of Transportation released its updated
handbook on airline consumer travel rights, "Fly
Rights: A Consumer Guide To Air Travel." The
handbook now includes information on everything from
how to avoid deep venous thrombosis (the solution:
walk up and down the cabin a few times to keep legs
moving) to how to avoid involuntary bumping (a more
involved description). Read
more
Going
paperless: Tech-savvy air travelers on board
The
Transportation Security Administration is working
with some domestic airlines to test paperless boarding
passes, which allow air travelers to download the
document onto a cell phone or other mobile device. Read
more