by Charlie Leocha | Sep 28, 2010
The current Department of Transportation (DOT) rulemaking includes a “choice of forum” section that highlights an important customer service loophole faced by America’s airline passengers. Basically, airline passengers have no rights in the U.S....
by Janice Hough | Sep 28, 2010
Southwest Airlines announced Monday their intention to purchase AirTran in a merger of two of the the nation’s largest discount carriers. But before we all figure out what that will mean, there is the question – will it actually happen? And the answer is,...
by Karen Fawcett | Sep 27, 2010
What do you want and don’t want when checking into a hotel? The list could go on forever. But there are some things most people expect; not all of them are ones you’d predict. After traveling across the world as a business woman and, more recently, as a...
by Janice Hough | Sep 27, 2010
First the Army moves your husband to the Mideast for Christmas and then Carnival Cruise lines moves part of your family to a faraway cabin for a long-planned Christmas cruise. When it comes to “minimum occupancy” rules on cruise ships, Carnival sticks to...
by Charlie Leocha | Sep 27, 2010
Southwest Airlines shocked the airline world with an announcement that it had agreed to acquire AirTran Holdings for $1.4 billion in cash and stock. This is a merger that few pundits saw coming. Southwest gets a big foothold in Atlanta and take-off and landing slots...
by Ned S. Levi | Sep 27, 2010
It’s a classic problem for the vacation traveler. After two weeks away, you begin to review your travel photos, a few days or weeks after returning home, and just can’t remember where you took many of them, and what the buildings and scenes in them are....
by Charlie Leocha | Sep 27, 2010
Delta starts unionization voting among flight attendants Delta Airlines this week will begin votes to determine whether or not Delta’s flight attendants will be unionized. The airline, which was largely non-union, merged with Northwest that had an antagonistic...
by Charlie Leocha | Sep 25, 2010
Davinci contraption finally flies Admit it. You saw it here first. Leonardo DaVinci’s wing-flapping flying contraption has finally flown. Leonardo sketched his designs in the late 1400s of a giant bat-shaped craft that used a pilot’s arms and legs to power...
