If airlines have now moved to a pay-for-what-you-use business model, do I get a refund if I pay but don't get the services promised? How about lost luggage? My ticket entitles me and my luggage to get to my destination together, that ...READ»
Once upon a time the airlines had this rule called the Saturday night stay, and business travelers hated it because it was aimed at them.
Earlier this year, when high fuel prices pressured the airlines to find new ways to raise ...READ»
You may have read that Air Canada's regional airline Jazz has removed life vests from all of its aircraft to save weight and thus get better fuel mileage. I've read that the reason Jazz can do this is that Canadian regulations ...READ»
Road Warrior Wild of Amadeus, the world's leading travel technology provider, not only tells you how to cut time and stress on your next business trip, but offers expert insight to companies seeking to make their travel dollar go farther.READ»
No one is saying that 2009 is going to be a good year for the airlines. But travel technology still will be catalyzing changes behind the scenes that will help the airlines ultimately become more successful, profitable, and ...READ»
If you'd like some good news about travel, mine is that technology is evolving in ways which helps travelers organize their trips to a "t."
TripIt is the site that is captivating me right now, because of its simplicity, ...READ»
Here’s a notion you might find difficult to stuff in your overhead bin: Airlines haven’t gone near far enough when it comes to "à la carte" pricing. In the airline world today, "à la carte" means ...READ»
As big as the Airbus A380 is, its impact in the U.S. market will be muted for the first few years simply because there won't be a lot of them flying here. In fact, to date no American carriers have even ordered the plane.
The ...READ»
The air travel landscape is changing forever from what we've come to expect: cheap flights, frequent flights, and all-inclusive fares.
The slow economy, the weak dollar, and high-priced fuel are all contributing to the big move ...READ»
I have to disagree with Michelle Higgins (A Plane? More Like a Flying Magazine) that advertising on airplanes is the last straw.
Everyone has his own "last straw" threshold, and mine isn't the security frisk (I leave ...READ»
Are airports really at risk?
Yes, says the Pennsylvania-based Business Travel Coalition, which claims 150 airports will lose all air service if oil prices stay in the $130-a-barrel range ("BTC Warns Congress About ...READ»
With the network air carriers pulling service to mid-tier-city airports around the U.S., air service from private terminals is filling the vacuum in places like Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
USA Today reports that SeaPort ...READ»
As the news site Anna.Aero points out, route reductions are providing opportunities for some airlines to expand and others to cut back.
The overriding issue derailing airline recovery especially in the U.S. is, of course, oil. ...READ»
The next time you are toot-tooted aboard a cruise ship, come prepared with more than just your swimsuit: The à la carte revenue model that has swept the airline industry may be coming to a cruise line near you.
Perhaps a ...READ»
George Mason University's Kenneth Button, a professor of public policy, calls an airline basically "a bus with wings."
In the same Travel Weekly article in which Button makes that assertion, he also points out ...READ»
The unpopularity of American Airlines' $15 first-checked-bag fee is stimulating the creative impulse in marketers who want to tap into travelers' desire to get some relief from the airlines' expanding list of fees.
While ...READ»
Terry Trippler is absolutely "right on" in his quote in a recent edition of USA Today in which he says "This isn't nickel-and-diming. It's survival."
Trippler is talking about the American Airlines $15 ...READ»
American Airlines may rediscover in the most unwelcome way possible that the Law of Unintended Consequences is not only alive and well, but probably was invented in an airport terminal.
In fact, American may end up erecting a ...READ»
And then there was one.
L'Avion is the last of the pure business-class airlines still flying.
Silverjet, which flew the London-to-New York and London-to-Dubai routes, died last week. Although officially they are still in ...READ»
A recent Orbitz poll says business travelers "don't feel the need or desire to be connected at 30,000 feet."
But don't count me among the nearly six in 10 who prefers to keep the air up there a refuge from the ...READ»
While business travel has taken a hit from the recent up tick in ticket prices, increase in air traffic congestion and a decrease in passenger comfort, I see mobile technologies as one ray of sunlight on the road warrior's ...READ»
Lower earnings among major U.S. airlines have led some carriers to resurrect revenue-generating strategies — I call them "segmentation tactics" — that essentially penalize business travelers more than other ...READ»
So the U.S. Congress is rebating us up to $600 of our own money to help stimulate consumer spending and pull us out of the recession.
So if it's every road warrior's patriotic duty to use his rebate to fire up the economy, here ...READ»
I have to admit I wasn't aware the extent to which commercial air traffic shares the sky with military air traffic — and how long ago those lanes in the sky were laid out. But Scott McCartney, a pilot himself, knows all about ...READ»
If you had the impression that airlines were going the extra mile in "tailoring" services to the needs of their customers, the news that German travel agency OssiUrlaub.de has dreamed up a nude flight shouldn't come as ...READ»
