- Airlines slow down flights to save on fuel
- May 2, 2008
- Drivers have long known that slowing down on the highway means getting more miles to the gallon. Now airlines are trying it, too — adding a few minutes to flights to save millions on fuel.
- Carriers drop cheap airline fares
- Ticket prices, new charges headed sky-high
- April 28, 2008
- Kiss good-bye the era of $34 airfares to the East Coast from Chicago, and $200 fares to Europe.
- Travel where dollar is strong
- April 27, 2008
- If you don’t want to cut vacation time despite an economic slowdown, Money magazine suggests these travel spots where the greenback is worth a lot more than the paper it’s printed on.
- Nomadic notes: Record your vacation
- April 27, 2008
- With summer just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about vacation.
- Airlines tout gourmet menus to lure travelers
- April 26, 2008
- First-class airline passengers can say goodbye to mystery meat.
- Summer travel headaches loom as airlines’ woes deepen
- April 23, 2008
- The airline industry was battered Tuesday by worse-than-expected losses and skyrocketing fuel prices, portending a worst-of-times vacation season of jammed planes, delayed flights and higher fares.
- Books tout state’s great outdoor adventures
- April 20, 2008
- If the long-overdue arrival of spring has you itching to get outdoors, two new books can help give you an excuse to explore the Kansas that isn’t your couch and living room.
- Regulators, executives switch roles
- April 18, 2008
- What the airline industry wants from Washington it often gets, and no wonder. The people who regulate airlines on one day can become company executives the next — and the other way around.
- Full-body scanners roll out at LA, NY airports
- April 18, 2008
- Some travelers at Los Angeles International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York will be searched for weapons and explosives using a new scanner that peers through their clothes and creates an image of the person’s body, federal officials announced Thursday.
- FAA chief: No plans to lift in-flight phone ban
- April 18, 2008
- The head of the Federal Aviation Administration told senators Thursday that he has no immediate plans to lift an FAA ban on in-flight cell-phone calls, delighting at least one lawmaker, who dreaded the prospect of hours of chatter on her coast-to-coast flights.
- Mergers could boost fares
- Fewer flights, more crowding also may occur
- April 16, 2008
- Getting hitched may be the right move for Delta and Northwest. But for beleaguered air travelers, it could usher in an era of higher fares, fewer flights, more confusion at the airport and even more crowded planes.
- Mexico violence prompts travel alert
- April 15, 2008
- The State Department on Monday issued a new travel alert warning of rising violence in northern Mexico, but stopped short of suggesting that Americans avoid traveling in the border region.
- Delta, Northwest agree to combine
- April 15, 2008
- Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp., squeezed by record high fuel prices and a slowing economy, are combining in a stock-swap deal that would create the world’s biggest carrier.
- American grounds 570 flights today; disruptions to continue
- April 11, 2008
- The cancellation of thousands of flights this week will cost American Airlines tens of millions of dollars, the company’s chief executive said Thursday, but he said the nation’s largest carrier can withstand the losses.
- Fliers facing third day of cancellations today
- April 10, 2008
- American Airlines canceled more than 900 flights today to fix faulty wiring in hundreds of jets, marking the third straight day of mass groundings as company executives offered profuse apologies and travel vouchers to calm angry customers.
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