A Grinch-y post? Holiday vents from travel agents and airline reservationists
Here is a compilation of Grinch-like thoughts many in the travel industry may have contemplated, but won’t express to the traveling public, collected from friends and colleagues in the travel business and from a few airline reservationists.
FAA issues final rule on pilot fatigue
DOT and FAA announce a sweeping final rule that overhauls commercial passenger airline pilot scheduling to ensure pilots have a longer opportunity for rest before they enter the cockpit.
Do Americans no longer hold the "worst fliers in the skies" title?
Two RIM (Research in Motion — the company that makes Blackberry phones) executives from Canada shows that our normally sedate neighbors north of the border are capable of bad inflight behavior.
Google shows its hand with Flight Search, the power of monopoly
Google Flight Search, at first only providing glimpses if itself if one searched for it has now come front and center. If anyone had any doubt that Google is skewing its “search” results to help itself, there cannot be any doubt now.
Google shows its hand with Flight Search, the power of monopoly
Google Flight Search, at first only providing glimpses if itself if one searched for it has now come front and center. If anyone had any doubt that Google is skewing its “search” results to help itself, there cannot be any doubt now.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Director warns AA about abandoning employee pension programs
With the Chapter 11 filing of American Airlines, the airline claims, for passengers, everything will be as it was, hunky-dory; not so for its workers. Now, the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the government safety net for corporate pension programs, publicly states that AA should not look to the agency as a place to toss their commitments to their employees.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Director warns AA about abandoning employee pension programs
With the Chapter 11 filing of American Airlines, the airline claims, for passengers, everything will be as it was, hunky-dory; not so for its workers. Now, the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the government safety net for corporate pension programs, publicly states that AA should not look to the agency as a place to toss their commitments to their employees.
Lost luggage — will your airline pay off?
Susan Miller is suing Delta because having lost her luggage temporarily, they are refusing to reimburse her for her expenses from purchase some essentials while waiting to have her luggage returned, while traveling. Ned Levi examines Delta’s “Contract of Carriage” to see how it affected Miller, and if they should have reimbursed her expenses.
What we're watching: Alec Baldwin apologizes to himself, swimming like a dolphin, Finnish flash mobs
This weekend we take a look at Alec Baldwin apologizing to himself for his AA shenanigans on Saturday Night Live, a Frenchman invents a way to swim like a dolphin and Finnair flight attendants surprise us with a a flashdance in their crew lounge.
Congress grumbles about TSA
In the past, a few congressmen like Rep. John Mica (R-FL) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) have been thorns in the side of TSA. They have raged against the giant bureaucracy that the agency has become and the invasiveness of TSA searches. Today, other members of Congress from the Senate and House are joining the anti-TSA crowd.