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  David Paul Appell January 6, 2010 at 12:04am

  Congrats on BoardingArea, Carol! Re your comment/question on Clear Lanes, it's a very good one. I don't know the answer, but you might try also posing it in the Airfares/Air Travel group.
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  Carol Margolis January 5, 2010 at 11:55pm

  Anyone else missing the Clear lanes that were at various U.S. airports? I'm missing Clear Card greatly. In Orlando, there are no first class lanes so we get in line with all of the families and tourists. I heard a rumor that another company was going to revive the Clear Card, but haven't heard any firm details. Does anyone know?
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  Andrea Grill October 2, 2009 at 5:52pm

  Effective Nov 1, passengers on international flights will be charged additional fees. This comes from the U.S. Dept of Argiculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Look for a fee of $5.50 on each international segment of your trip.
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  Andrea Grill October 1, 2009 at 6:15pm

  In this travel climate it seems like a really bad idea. Many companies are no longer allowing paid business class travel. Any other airline that previously tried this, in better times, failed. I don't think they will be able to sustain this. They're not even filling up their normal flights with paid business class seats. A lot of those seats are still getting filled with upgrades. Unless they' have a bigger plan to change their whole faring model, I think this will bring them deeper into the whole they already can't afford.
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  David Paul Appell October 1, 2009 at 4:15pm

  So British Airways finally went and launched its all-business-class flights. Any thoughts from the peanut gallery on how that's likely to work out for them?
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  Andrea Grill September 30, 2009 at 6:43pm

  Are you longing for the days where you can smoke on a flight?
  Ryanair's new marketing ploy is to sell you their own "smokeless" cigarettes.
  This will gain them the revenue lost by discontinuing their bathroom tolls.
  2 more reasons to breath a sigh of relief.
  I think they're just gearing up for their standing room only flights. They have to off you something.
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  Andrea Grill September 30, 2009 at 6:35pm

  Orbitz.com has changed their hotel booking cancellation fees. While some hotels may still charge their own cancellation fees, Orbitz will not tack on any of their own fees. This does not include their general cancellation policies where hotels are included in a total packaged deal.
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  Andrea Grill September 30, 2009 at 6:28pm

  The Department of State is alerting U.S. citizens to the quarantine measures imposed by the government of China in response to the 2009-H1N1 pandemic that may affect travel to China. The Alert updates the July 9, 2009, Travel Alert in order to advise U.S. citizens of the current quarantine situation. This Travel Alert expires on Dec. 30, 2009. In May 2009, China implemented a policy that allows it to quarantine arriving passengers who exhibit fever or flu-like symptoms. Although the overall percentage of U.S. citizens being quarantined remains low, the nature of the selection process makes it almost impossible to predict when a traveler may be placed into quarantine. From May to August 2009, the Department of State received thousands of reports of quarantined U.S. citizens. Since September, however, reports of U.S. citizens in quarantine have been infrequent.
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  Andrea Grill September 30, 2009 at 12:58am

  GetThere, today, unveiled plans for a new suite of collaboration tools to help corporations maximize the return on investment of travel, meetings and virtual meeting options. The next generation of the 15-year-old online booking tool is to be called a "Collaboration Suite" and include a "return on invested collaboration calculator," social networking functionality, meeting planning tools and collaboration inventory management covering air travel booking to remote conferencing services, according to GetThere chief marketing officer and Sabre Travel Network corporate segment strategy and solutions vice president Suzanne Neufang.
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  Andrea Grill September 30, 2009 at 12:48am

  For those of you who might have thought you were about to get a break,
  **** UPDATED 29SEP2009 ****
  Both the House and Senate have now passed a three-month extension of the federal aviation excise taxes. The President is expected to sign the measure no later than September 30.
  Nothing like waiting until the last minute....the current bill is in effect until, you guessed it, September 30.