Article by Christopher Hinton of Marketwatch.com:
"Fliers trying to avoid airline fees for checked baggage are tangling airport security lines, dragging out waiting times and discouraging people from flying, according to a Wednesday report from the
Read more…Just read Kaleel Sakakeeny's interesting blog post Hipmunk, on a new booking engine that's apparently the cat's meow. And recently I heard about an outfit out of Denmark called Momondo.com, which is supposed to crawl something like 800 airfare sites
Read more…The first thing I heard when the alarm woke me up just now is that the four American carriers will be hiking their fares in this coming year. Is there anything in it for us consumers?
Read more…## Marian Goldberg (marian@mariangoldbergcomm.com) reports that the first TBEX Europe is being held Nov. 4-6, 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her client, the flight search engine www.Momondo.com, is the Platinum Presenting Sponsor. Momondo has also brou
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Ever dreamed of getting paid to explore the world? Finnair, one of the world’s longest continuously operating airlines, offers you the adventure of a lifetime. We are on a global search for four Quality Hunters; intrepid, o
Read more…Bloomberg reports that airline flights stuck on tarmacs for more than three hours fell to 3 in June, down from 268 a year ago. And this was not because there was an increase in cancelled flights. It was because...
Read more…Does anyone have a contact for TAM airlines groups department?
I'm reading the Wall Street Journal this morning about in-flight wi-fi. Will more passengers pay for costly in-flight wi-fi? Why do you pay up, or why don't you pay up?
Read more…I never fly out of LaGuardia, New York's "second" airport (it's really New York's third), so I was surprised this morning that there was no wi-fi in the Delta terminal. Free would be nice, Boingo would be acceptable, but they supplied neither. Some
Read more…Back from Newport last night, off to Mexico this morning. And for the 245432th time, I forgot to pull the ziploc bag with liquids out of my luggage. I guess that's not as bad as the time in 2004 when, after helping move Diversion's offices, I absentm
Read more…U.S.-based carrier JetBlue has $10 flights if you book today. http://bit.ly/Yc7PA
Read more…I just learned they're going to start charging $45 a bag for carry-on in the overhead department. The CEO says, ""The beauty of it is [the passengers] will do what they think is best for them and will now have the choice."
OK, so how long can you sit on the tarmac at an airport? http://bit.ly/cAvSlv
Read more…Looks like Continental and United really will merge, and they'll call the new airline "United." http://bit.ly/9qHfnR I'd call it Unental. And you?
Read more…Do you agree with the results of this survey? http://bit.ly/aTO9Ub
Read more…Are you folks who really know the airline industry as surprised by this as I am? http://travelweekly.com/article3_ektid210612.aspx
Read more…More info: www.BudgetAirlineGuide.com. Individual airlines: U.S. Air Tran (www.AirTran.com) Frontier (www.FrontierAirlines.com) Jet America (www.JetAmerica.com) Southwest (www.Southwest.com) Spirit (www.FlySpirit.com) USA3000 (www.USA3000.com) Europe
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Apps! In the 2020s it seems like our lives practically run on them, and whatever the issue or problem, as the saying goes, “there’s an app for that”. Fear of flying is no exception, and here are a half dozen which counter aerophobia, approaching it
