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Flying Food: Complimentary meals in economy class a thing of the past

10/13/10
My column this week on msnbc.com –  Free meals on planes fly into the sunset – is all about the demise of “free” meals for economy class passengers on domestic airlines. It’s also about the efforts airlines are making to convince travelers to buy their meals on board. Working on the story was especially fun, →

Paperless boarding passes: benefit or bother?

09/05/10
We’ve all become accustomed to checking in for our flights on-line and printing out our boarding passes at home or at an airport kiosk on our way to the security checkpoint. Now the TSA is working with five airlines and 70 airports to test paperless boarding passes. Here’s how it works: When a traveler checks →

Tidbits for travelers: Swine flu, busted baggage handlers, & fresh art

05/02/09
So many people are canceling trips to Mexico because of worries over swine flu that United Airlines and Continental Airlines are significantly cutting out flights to that country. No doubt other airlines will also cut flights, so if you’ve postponed your Mexico trip, check back with the airline to see if you need to change →

Glimmers of hope?

01/30/09
Two items caught my eye today that seem like encouraging steps in the right direction. From the Airline Biz blog, – a note about Continental Airlines saying they’d make it a policy to let passengers deplane if they’d been stuck on an airplane for more than three hours. And from the Chicago Tribune: an article →

Get out your tape measure

10/24/08
Well, this is kind of a sneaky way for airlines to make air travelers check their bags – and a sneaky way for at least one airline to squeeze more bucks out of bag check fees. Earlier this month Continental Airlines announced that it would not only charge coach travelers $25 to check a second →