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Airlines issue waivers ahead of potential Christmas storm
By Laura Bly
December 25, 2010
While weather forecasters are still wrangling over whether a monster snowstorm will impact Atlanta Christmas Day and make its way up the East Coast this weekend, several airlines have already issued waivers that let passengers alter flight plans with no fees.
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Expedia removes American Airlines' fares in support of Orbitz
By Roger Yu
December 25, 2010
Expedia, an online travel agency, has removed fares from American Airlines in its search results in a show of support for competitor Orbitz, says travel technology blog Tnooz.
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Heavy snow shuts down European air travel, hurts roads
By The Associated Press
December 19, 2010
PARIS, France — Heavy snow on Sunday shut down European airport runways, forced fast trains to slow down and left cars skidding through icy, slushy streets on a weekend where many people were trying to head home for the holidays.
London's Heathrow Airport stopped accepting arrivals. Frankfurt airport canceled around 40% of flights.
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For air travelers, holidays are the season for delays
By Alan Levin and Roger Yu
December 19, 2010
Brace yourselves, holiday air travelers. History suggests you're in for a rocky ride.
The three weeks from mid-December through the New Year holiday are the most delay-prone period of the year at airports, according to a USA TODAY analysis of years of federal data and interviews with airport and airline officials.
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Airports, airlines increase traveler access to liquor
By Charisse Jones
December 7, 2010
It's getting easier to grab a drink at the airport and in the air.
Some airports now allow liquor to be sold at dawn or around the clock. Passengers can experience happy hour at 30,000 feet. And wine aficionados passing through airports in Philadelphia, New York and Seattle can enjoy a tasting without leaving the terminal.
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Tips for keeping valuables safe when traveling
By Charisse Jones
December 7, 2010
Chances are if you're hitting the road, you'll have a laptop, passport or extra cash in tow.
Keeping your valuables safe while traveling needs to be a top priority, particularly at a time when identity theft is common and the nation is struggling to rebound from a deep economic slump, travel experts say.
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Holiday airfares flying higher
By Gary Stoller
November 8, 2010
Many fliers will pay more — sometimes half as much more — for airline tickets this holiday season.
On some routes, fares are up to 59% higher than last year for travel before Thanksgiving and up to 40% higher before Christmas, according to an analysis by travel site FareCompare.com.
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Flying tips for the holidays
By Gary Stoller
November 8, 2010
To avoid congested roads and crowded airports, frequent traveler Rip Russell will fly home on Thanksgiving morning and fly back to his job in Philadelphia two days later.
Russell, a production accountant working on a movie, says flying on those days to and from Atlanta shortens his holiday but reduces stress.
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Qantas grounds their Airbus A380 fleet
By Ben Mutzabaugh
November 4, 2010
The Associated Press reports "the announcement came after [the Qantas jet] made an emergency landing Thursday in Singapore with 459 people aboard, after one of its four engines failed over western Indonesia and following witness reports of a blast that sent debris hurtling to the ground. The carrier said there had not been any explosion, and that the plane landed safely with no injuries."
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Qantas emergency points spotlight at Airbus, Rolls-Royce
By Jorn Madslien
November 4, 2010
The grounding by Qantas of six A380 aircraft is just the latest in a string of problems to beset the largest passenger plane in the world.
It is "certainly the most serious incident that the A380 has experienced since it entered operations", according to Tom Ballantyne, who writes for Orient Aviation Magazine.
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Airlines ditch first class seats as fliers get stingy
By Roger Yu
October 17, 2010
The number of first class cabins is shrinking.
A small but growing list of airlines are eliminating or reducing rows in the most expensive part of their aircraft as customers increasingly look for cheaper seats.
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Virgin America named USA's top airline,
Singapore tops global ratings
By Ben Mutzabaugh
October 17, 2010
Virgin America is the best airline in the USA. At least that's according to Condé Nast Traveler magazine. The publication revealed this week that the California-based low-cost carrier was named the top North American airline in its 2010 Readers' Choice Awards. It was the third-consecutive year Virgin America took the top spot in Condé Nast Traveler's rankings.<
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Overbooked passengers allowed to stand on 5-hour flight
By Ben Mutzabaugh
October 5, 2010
In case you missed this story from last week, it appears that Russian leisure carrier Tatarstan Airlines has beaten low-cost rival Ryanair to standing-room-only seating. It was not, however, by design.
The carrier -- operating for a tour group -- ran into the problem when it was forced to make an aircraft change on a full Sept. 24 flight from Antalya, Turkey, to Ekaterinburg, Russia. The change involved swapping out a 148-seat model Boeing 737 for one with just 142. That, as the math experts among you can tell, left six passengers without a seat on the sold out flight.
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Airlines increase fight against online ticket fraud
By Charisse Jones
October 5, 2010
The Internet, a convenience to travelers looking to quickly book a trip, is also a gateway to fraud, costing the airline industry tens of millions of dollars a year.
Now, some carriers are stepping up their efforts to fight back. They're boosting the staff that tracks crimes and tapping into new technology that can help detect it. But as large airlines tackle the problem, there is growing concern that fraudsters are moving onto smaller carriers whose defenses are not yet in place.
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Playing the holiday airfare game
By Susan Stellin
September 30, 2010
TWO days after Labor Day, my sister asked if I had booked airline tickets for Christmas, which felt like rounding the corner on a back-to-school supplies display and running smack into Santa Claus.
No, I haven’t booked a ticket for Christmas, made plans for Thanksgiving or even put away my summer clothes yet. But at this point, it probably is time to lock in a flight for Thanksgiving, and it can’t hurt to start tracking fares for December or New Year’s trips.
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Union vote could reshape Delta's culture
By Ben Mutzabaugh
September 30, 2010
Big changes could be coming at Delta depending on the outcome of union elections that began Wednesday. Those elections could ultimately extend union representation to 50,000 of the airline's workers.
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Airlines grapple with increased regulatory focus
By Dan Reed
September 24, 2010
Nearly 32 years after the U.S. airline industry was deregulated, U.S. carriers are facing a wave of government and union rules that threatens to unleash the biggest regulatory changes for the industry in a generation.
Driving the shift is mounting consumer dissatisfaction with airline service and growing exasperation over airlines' fast switch to charging extra fees for services — such as checked baggage and in-flight food — that used to come with the price of a ticket.
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DOT fines United for 'wasting valuable Department resources'
By Ben Mutzabaugh
September 24, 2010
United Airlines has become one of the first U.S. carriers to be fined by the DOT under new rules meant to prevent long ground delays, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The catch? United did not actually violate the rule, but was hit with a $12,000 fine anyway.
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