Continental Airlines to let coach customers buy more space
March 3, 2010 ·
Continental Airlines will begin charging coach customers extra if they want a seat with more legroom.
Prices will vary depending on the length of a flight and popularity of the route. A spokeswoman said extra room on a Houston-New York flight might cost $59. International fliers would pay more than that.
Starting March 17, coach customers will [...]
Many airlines waive change fees due to weather
February 24, 2010 ·
Several airlines are again offering to waive fees customers would ordinarily pay to rebook their flights on alternate itineraries due to bad weather in some parts of the country.
AirTran Airways, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways and Continental Airlines were among the carriers offering change-fee waivers this week.
AirTran said Wednesday its passengers scheduled for travel Thursday [...]
New airline flights to Alaska may lower fares
February 8, 2010 ·
Travel industry officials say more airline flights to Alaska this summer may boost competition and result in lower fares to some Lower 48 cities.
The Anchorage Daily News says Continental, United and US Airways all plan to add daily nonstop service between Anchorage and Portland, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia. From Fairbanks, Delta plans a new [...]
Airlines drop latest fare increase
January 26, 2010 ·
Major U.S. airlines have dropped an effort to raise fares by up to $16 a roundtrip after some carriers resisted the increase.
Fort Worth, Texas-based American Airlines confirmed on Monday that it had dropped a price hike from last week. American spokesman Tim Smith said Atlanta-based Delta had pulled the increase even before American did, and [...]
Leave an item on an airplane? Here’s what to do
January 23, 2010 ·
Let’s face it. We’ve all done it. In part because travel can be so disorienting, it’s easy to disembark a plane without all of our “personal belongings” as the flight attendants refer to them in their deplaning announcements (are there “impersonal belongings”? how about we just call them our belongings).
Judging from anecdotal evidence, most people [...]
Air travel frustration spikes with fees, security
January 20, 2010 ·
Feeling nickel-and-dimed, frisked and scanned, crowded and hustled just to get from point A to point B, air travelers seem to be reaching new levels of frustration and unhappiness.
Already on edge after the failed Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253, they’re dealing with ever-changing security measures that the Department of Homeland Security says have [...]
Flights behind schedule after New Jersey security breach
January 4, 2010 ·
Security lines at Newark Liberty International Airport were moving normally Monday, but flights were still running behind schedule a day after a man walked through a screening checkpoint exit to enter a terminal.
The breach caused major delays and grounded flights for six hours Sunday at the airport, one of the busiest in the nation.
Transportation Security [...]
