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• Read This BEFORE You Buy Your Next “Cheap Airline Ticket”

  
  RickSeaney.com — Authority: 436
  Read this first - my new “Airline Surcharge Charts” - before you buy your next ticket. Sure, it’s “recommended reading” according to Treehugger and the New York Times , but here’s the real reason to check out the charts: They can save you money. These new charts — handy “calendar” pages, ...
  5 days ago

• “Peak Travel Day” Surcharge - Fee or Airline Survival Instinct?

  
  RickSeaney.com — Authority: 436
  It’s been a rough couple of years for the airlines - what with the fuel crisis that sent prices into the stratosphere (well, to about $140 a barrel, back in July of 2008) - and then, the economy had its dramatic meltdown. And people weren’t flying. Which is why prices were exceedingly cheap this summer - in ...
  1 week ago

• Pay Credit Card Late, Lose Miles (and Pay Fee to Get ‘em Back)

  
  RickSeaney.com — Authority: 436
  Attention American Express customers: not all, just those of you who have co-branded cards with Delta/Northwest and JetBlue (and some hotels, too): According to the AP (via ABCNews.com ), notices have been sent to these AmEx customers, telling them that starting in January, “rewards won’t be transferred to ...
  1 week ago

• Congress to investigate airline fees ... but not for your benefit

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Activism , North America , United States , Airlines , Consumer Activism Congress is digging into all those new airline fees . Extra bags, special check-in situations ... you name it. Before you start cheering on our lawmakers, though, you should know that they arent doing this from a sense of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jim Hightower on airline innovations

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 144
  For those of you who, like me, travel a lot on airplanes, there is good news: Airline executives have become much more innovative in the past year! The bad news is that all of the innovation has been in dreaming up new fees to charge us customers.
  2 weeks ago

• American Airlines And The Tale Of The $100 "Prepaid Baggage Fee" [Airline Fees]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 797
  Reader Jeremy says that his attempts to be polite and have everything taken care of for someone who was doing his organization a big favor were made more difficult by a secret, unpublished "prepaid baggage fee" that American Airlines attempted to charge him. Jeremy says: My organization has a wonderful, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Couponing Makes Cents – Consumerism Commentary, personal finance …

  
  The Wealthy Soul — Authority: 154
  The latest Carnival of Personal Finance is online at Broke-Ass… Honda Hybrid at $10000: According to the Japan Stock Blog (the original source is.. View post: Couponing Makes Cents – Consumerism Commentary, personal finance …
  2 weeks ago

• Avoid Airline Bag Fees with Special Ski Package

  
  RickSeaney.com — Authority: 436
  Here’s one solution to airline bag fees: Vail Resorts, which owns Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, and Breckenridge in Colorado, plus Heavenly by Lake Tahoe - is offering a package that includes free skis and/or boards . Which means you don’t have to mess with checked-bag fees - or, the very pricy overweight ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hurricane Ida Travel Advisories for Gulf Coast Flights

  
  RickSeaney.com — Authority: 436
  Both Delta and US Airways (and perhaps others airlines, by the time you read this) have issued special advisories due to Hurricane Ida. Both airlines are allowing customers flying in or out of the Gulf region - which includes specific cities in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida - to make one-time change ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hang onto those airline receipts…or with United it’s going to cost you

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 144
  Electronic tickets have made life a lot easier for travelers, and travel arrangers, who cant keep track of pieces of paper. But that doesnt mean we are anywhere near a paperless society.
  3 weeks ago

• The True Cost of Air Travel

  
  Single Minded Women — Authority: 140
  How much are you really paying for your airline ticket? Airlines today are becoming tyrannical about details, and some are downright petty with regard to additional charges to the consumer. So how do you know what’s legitimate? And, how can you save on your next flight? Travel agent Jody Yetti offers her input on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Airlines to begin charging extra for reserving seats

  
  The Latest Travel News and Information — Authority: 141
  Customers traveling by air in the US and UK will now have to pay a small premium between $5 and $36 to reserve their seat. If not, customers may find themselves forced to sit next to the toilet, or separate from friends or family they are travelling with. As the current system goes, all customers have to pay for the ...
  3 weeks ago

• It’s Election Day: Vote for Top Airline Fees You’d Like to See

  
  RickSeaney.com — Authority: 436
  Okay, this is completely unscientific. It’s also a lot of fun - for me. Hope you enjoy it, too. Which among the following is your favorite fee - one the airlines should adopt, without delay? It’s the kind of thing we’d see in a place I’ll call “Perfect World”. Let me know what you think in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Banks, airlines deserve no credit for card tricks

  
  elliott.org — Authority: 536
  On second thought, maybe you should leave home without it.
  3 weeks ago

• 50% of air travelers will fly with the flu to avoid a fee

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: North America , Airlines , Transportation , News , Travel Health Im a one of the those people who always seems to get sick after a long plane ride. A few days post-trip, I suddenly get a runny nose, sore throat and all the other telltale signs of a cold, most likely contracted from a sick ...
  5 weeks ago

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