8 May 2014

How to Lighten Your Luggage Load

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If you’re longing for past days of free luggage check-ins and ample weight allowance, you’re wasting your time.

Overhead bins are too small. Airlines want to check your bags to speed up the boarding process and earn billions in luggage [Read More…]
 


1 May 2014

Should Congress Give Airlines Permission to Lie?

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Travel Agent

Travel companies are liars, says consumer advocate Christopher Elliot.

If the Transparent Airfares Act of 2014 sails ceremoniously through Congress, the they’ll  be able to [Read More…]
 


17 Apr 2014

7 Things You Should Know About Business Travel

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Business Class Travel

Business travel evolves far too fast to worry about the past. Anything that happened before airline deregulation in 1978 is considered prehistoric, while anything between deregulation and [Read More…]
 


11 Apr 2014

5 Reasons Why Flying Won’t Be Fun in the Future

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Crowded Plane

Consumer advocate Christopher Elliot has a dismal outlook for the future of the airline industry.

Somehow, “free” flights will be more expensive. Airlines will take your money in both large [Read More…]
 


10 Apr 2014

2013 Airline Rankings Rate Virgin America Top-Notch

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Virgin America

Virgin America remains at the top of the annual airline quality report released earlier this week, with JetBlue and Hawaiian Airlines trailing close behind.

Delta came in fourth for [Read More…]
 


3 Apr 2014

How to Find Hidden Fees

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Hidden Airline FeeGotcha” fees are everywhere, lurking in the corners, waiting to snatch your money at any unsuspecting moment.

Take codesharing: where an airline pretends  flights are its own, [Read More…]
 


28 Mar 2014

How to Spring Clean for Spring Travel

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Stuffed luggage

Air travelers may need to undertake a physical and emotional spring cleaning.

An impending season of thunderstorms, hailstorms and tornadoes will follow a winter filled with snowstorms, sleet and [Read More…]
 


27 Mar 2014

What isn’t allowed on a plane that should be?

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Liquids Banned

It looks like mobile cell phones are on their way to becoming a reality.

Despite the heated discussions in travel blogs, airlines announcing that they’d never allow wireless [Read More…]
 


21 Mar 2014

How to Beat Extra Fees and Surcharges

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Airline Fees

It’s official: “unbundling” has taken over the travel industry.

Airlines alone earned $27.1 billion in ancillary fees in 2012, compared to just $2.45 billion in 2008. The ballooned [Read More…]
 


20 Mar 2014

How to Use Common Sense While Traveling

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Common Sense

Common sense as we know it may be dead.

And for the travel industry, that may mean more bad news – for airport workers, national park rangers, fellow tourists, [Read More…]