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5 (sometimes surprising) ways flying affects your body

Gus Ruballo You land. Your throat feels like sandpaper. Your head is heavy. Your eyes sting. You've been sitting still for eight hours… so why does your body feel like it just ran a marathon? Most travelers accept this as the price of flying. But there's nothing inevitable about it. These symptoms have specific, well-documented causes — and understanding them is the first step to actually doing something about them. Here are five things flying is doing to your body right now. Some I´ll bet…

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Travel Budgeting: How to Budget for Your Trip

Traveling doesn’t have to be expensive, stressful, or unpredictable. With the right planning, you can enjoy your dream destination while staying comfortably within your budget. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to create a smart travel budget, estimate your costs correctly, save money, and make the most of deals on flights, hotels, car rentals, and last-minute flight bookings.Whether you're planning an international adventure or a weekend getaway, mastering travel budgeting allows…

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Getting the best possible airfare deals from the USA with Google Flights

If you’ve ever gone down the rabbit hole of searching for flights, you know how overwhelming it can get. Prices jump around, deals disappear, and it’s easy to spend hours refreshing tabs. That’s where Google Flights comes in—it’s one of the most powerful (and free) tools for finding cheap airfares. Here are a few strategies travelers swear by: read post

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Flying smarter: 10 money-saving tips for budget travelers

Airfares in 2024 have been a something of a mixed bag - generally down to/from/within Europe and the United States, but pricier when it comes to Africa and parts of Asia, as well as the Middle East and South America. Regardless, to make the most of your travel budget and leave you more for enjoying destinations once you get there, here are a handful of proven strategies read post

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Tripatini October 16, 2010 at 4:49pm

New on the Tripatini blog, one member looks at U.S. DOT and government action on airline's "hidden fees" and unbundling. Click here to read.
David Lawrence October 15, 2010 at 3:29pm

Report on the radio says the new Boeing 787 is greener and is supposed to make flying more comfortable. But I see a big problem. It has a lot more room for baggage, uses less fuel, has larger windows, better air pressure, cleaner air, better lights, and other stuff. But none of these things are what's most important to me to be comfortible. Know what it is? And what about you?
Northeast News October 14, 2010 at 4:04pm

I was surprised to learn that a Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) survey ranks Indonesia's national carrier, Garuda, the best carrier in Southeast Asia when it comes to service. Consider: Garuda's competition in this category includes the world-classs Singapore Airlines, among others. Besides, Indonesia is a place that normally finds new and exciting ways to get bad publicity. (Oh, I wish I'd had them as a client!)
Have you flown Garuda? Are they really that good?
David Lawrence October 8, 2010 at 8:31pm

Funny. But all publicity is good publicity.
Vintage Travel October 8, 2010 at 7:48pm

It seems the Cebu Pacific dancing safety announcement was made just before Cebu Pacific's IPO this next week, according to the USA Today article today.
Northeast News October 7, 2010 at 5:04am

David, the airline cannot appear to be joking about safety.
David Lawrence October 7, 2010 at 12:27am

The crew on Cebu Pacific that performed a Lady Gaga safety dance is getting flamed by both management and the union. Fair or unfair?
Ed Wetschler October 3, 2010 at 6:37pm

Great explanations of an all-too-hazy situation; thank you both. Meanwhile, if I go to amazon.com to buy one of Charlie Leocha's ski guides, they tell me exactly what I'm paying before I complete the transaction. That sounds about right to me.
Charlie Leocha October 3, 2010 at 6:33pm

They know the day is coming. Ironically, the airlines are the ones who own ATPCO, the system that distributes airfares to the GDSs and that has been modified and tested to handle fees as well. If airlines want to have thousands of fees, fine. But they have to let consumers know how much these fees will cost.

Also, the airlines are not getting a tax break. Passengers are. The tax everyone is talking about is the transportation excise tax -- it is paid by consumers and only consumers.
Anil October 3, 2010 at 5:46pm

Ed: What Orbitz/ITA show is /11,User fees,airport taxes. However the farebasis - for example TKXSL94 for JFK-AMS-JFK, has a fare prices associated with it plus fees & taxes. Everyone wants the breakdown of this piece TKXSL94.

This fare has 21 pages of rules and restriction, but no where does it mention handling fees, baggage charges, beverage charges, reservation charges etc. Since the airlines do not pay taxes on baggage fees and reservations fees, they will be loath to disclose the exact breakdown.