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Viral video forces Delta to change bag fees for soldiers

06/09/11

Soldiers charged $2800 for extra baggage force Delta - and other airlines - to change their policies on bag fees for activity military →

Changes galore in fees and service charges on Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air

04/22/10

Heads up, Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air customers. A bunch of changes to the airlines’ fees and services were announced today. The news is good and bad… Here’s a rundown: Effective for travel on or after June 16 for tickets purchased beginning May 1. Checked bags and baggage service guarantee It will cost you $20 →

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Pay for carry-on bags? We’ll see about that.

04/08/10

We all knew this was coming – someday – right? Spirit Airlines announced that, come August 1st, you’ll need to pay a fee (up to $45 if you wait until the last minute) to stow a bag, a box, or that container holding our uncle’s cremains in the overhead bin. The alternatives? Check your bags →

Tidbits for travelers: Free Wi-Fi, Olympic travel tips, and in-flight body-mass tax

01/20/10

We want Wi-Fi Slowly but surely airports large and small are getting with the program and making free wireless Internet access available in the terminals. The latest major airport to join the party: Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). Hooray! Packing tips from Olympic athletes Curious about what some Olympic athletes do when they’re traveling – →

Next time you go to the airport take zero baggage & zero cars

08/10/09

Here are two interesting ideas for travelers. One is still on the drawing board; the other is already in operation. Ever wish you could head to the airport with just a toothbrush and the clothes on your back? Sounds sort of freeing, doesn’t it? Well, according to this article that might be the wave of →

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Tidbits for travelers: parks, pillows and perks

06/24/09

A couple of fun and possibly useful notes: Southwest Airlines begins service between New York’s LaGuardia Airport and both BWI and Chicago’s Midway airport at the end of June (2009). To celebrate, the airline is sponsoring the Southwest Porch in New York City. It’s in Bryant Park, at appropriately enough, the park’s southwest corner and →

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Good, bad and just plain wacky air travel fees and amenities

05/22/09

Heading to the airport this holiday weekend? Check to make sure you’re up on the latest changes. Shoes out of the bin, buddy! Like what? Well, the TSA has decided that you still need to take off your shoes and send them through the X-ray machine, but now those shoes need to ride on the →

Guide to airline ‘swine flu’ refunds

05/05/09

If you’re still trying to figure out whether or not you’re going to take that scheduled trip to Mexico, one of the variables is certainly the policy set forth by your airline. Will they refund your ticket price? Waive the change fee? Allow you to go Montreal instead of Mexico City?During the initial flu-frenzy, many →

Ryanair asks: would you pay for toilet paper?

04/14/09

After alarming travelers with the ‘joke’ about on-board pay-toilets (don’t be surprised…), Ryanair officials asked travelers to send in their own ideas for other discretionary fees that could be charged. They did. As of today (April 14th) close to 45,000 votes have been cast. And sadly, so far more than 20,000 people have voted in →

In-flight toilet tax? Plumb crazy.

02/27/09

Some folks were predicting that this would be the year that some airlines start charging passengers by weight. But it looks like this will be the year that some airlines – or maybe just those wacky nickel-and-dime’em folks at RyanAir – are going to start charging folks to use the lav. What do you think? →

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