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

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 776
  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everything taken care of for someone who was doing his organization a big favor were made more difficult by a secret, unpublished "prepaid baggage fee" that American Airlines attempted to charge him.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, ...
  1 day ago

• Couponing Makes Cents – Consumerism Commentary, personal finance …

  
  The Wealthy Soul — Authority: 153
  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 days ago

• Avoid Airline Bag Fees with Special Ski Package

  
  RickSeaney.com — Authority: 435
  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 days ago

• Hurricane Ida Travel Advisories for Gulf Coast Flights

  
  RickSeaney.com — Authority: 435
  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 days ago

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

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 143
  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.
  5 days ago

• The True Cost of Air Travel

  
  Single Minded Women — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Airlines to begin charging extra for reserving seats

  
  The Latest Travel News and Information — Authority: 140
  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 ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  RickSeaney.com — Authority: 435
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Banks, airlines deserve no credit for card tricks

  
  elliott.org — Authority: 574
  On second thought, maybe you should leave home without it.
  1 week ago

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

  
  Gadling — Authority: 689
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• JetBlue: Ways to stay profitable without "nickel and diming" customers.

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 540
  NEW YORK — JetBlue said Thursday it wont rule out charging for a first checked bag, but its looking for other ways to stay profitable in weak economic times without "nickel and diming" customers. read more
  2 weeks ago

• What will be the next airline “a la carte” items and fees?

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 143
  Japans All Nippon Airways recently made news by asking passengers to use the bathroom before boarding. Their reason? To lighten the weight on the plane, and thus use less fuel, thereby reducing their carbon footprint.
  2 weeks ago

• What will be the next airline “a la carte” items and fees?

  
  Turnip Style Dot Com — Authority: 152
  Japan’s All Nippon Airways recently made news by asking passengers to use the bathroom before boarding. Their reason? To lighten the weight on the plane, and thus use less fuel, thereby reducing their carbon footprint.
  2 weeks ago

• Five Most Needed Airport Improvements

  
  RickSeaney.com — Authority: 435
  I was perusing a Los Angeles Times article about how their airport needs a billion dollars worth of improvements -sorry, LAX, but you could stand a make-over. Anyway, the reporter drew up a list of suggestions (my favorite: “ An intelligible sound system, because right now, the publnc adrsses sn sd weoibchcn ...
  3 weeks ago

• UAL has almost good news for third quarter

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 658
  Filed under: UAL Corp (UAUA) The skies are starting to look a little friendlier to United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAUA ). The airline reported a quarterly loss that was lower than expected . Third quarter traffic was off only 2.9 percent, but because United used discounts to fill seats, revenue fell 20.3% (to $4.43 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Airline Fees in Europe

  
  Tim Leffel's Cheapest Destinations — Authority: 118
  SmarterTravel has published a series of great tables to help passengers figure out how much they’ll get reamed by various airlines in extra fees and frequent flyer fees to redeem “free” tickets. Now they’ve got a guide to airline fees in Europe. While we gripe and moan about all the fees we get socked with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Before you pay for airline perks in 2010 – consider a mileage run (and soon)

  
  Turnip Style Dot Com — Authority: 152
  Now that most major airlines in the U.S. have figured out how to charge for just about everything short of the lavatories – and trust me, that could be coming – an airline ticket has become the equivalent of the base price in an automobile ad. By the time you add up the final bill, the price is a lot higher.
  3 weeks ago

• Before you pay for airline perks in 2010 – consider a mileage run (and soon)

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 143
  Now that most major airlines in the U.S. have figured out how to charge for just about everything short of the lavatories - and trust me, that could be coming - an airline ticket has become the equivalent of the base price in an automobile ad. By the time you add up the final bill, the price is a lot higher.
  3 weeks ago

• Airlines Extend Surcharges

  
  American Consumer News — Authority: 531
  Remember the days when you would board an aircraft, nestle into your economy seat and rock back to take in a movie, have a complimentary light meal and non-alcoholic beverage? Once upon a time, flight attendants would shake you awake to have a cup of coffee or juice if you happened to doze off when the beverage cart ...
  3 weeks ago

• Extra airline fees to become the new normal

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 658
  Filed under: Boeing Co (BA) , AMR Corp (AMR) , UAL Corp (UAUA) If you think all those new airline fees were a temporary measure to help these beleaguered companies through an economic crisis , youre out of your mind. Now that theyve had a taste of how much they can make by charging you for an extra bag or a ...
  3 weeks ago

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