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Airlines have decided to take more money out of your pocket. As they marginally reduced prices, they have increased baggage fees to $40+. And, of course, they did it right at Spring Break. Airlines raise the cost of checking luggage. Watch Politics...
by Egberto Willies
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 08:55 PM PST
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I'm reading more and more about a change in Boeing's corporate culture decades ago that led to a slow degradation of Boeing's quality control. It's the same old story; prioritizing short-term ...
by Nick Anderson
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on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 04:59 AM PST
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DALLAS (AP) — Despite inflation and memories of past holiday travel meltdowns, millions of people are expected to hit airports and highways in record numbers over the Thanksgiving break.
The ...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 04:28 PM PST
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A novel partnership among three labor unions to organize tens of thousands of airline workers could set a national example.
By John Ruch for Capital & ...
by Capital and Main
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on Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 08:22 AM PDT
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— — This video is fun, and educational too. Only 6 minutes long too. Why Does Flying Suck So Much? by Robert Reich — Sept 6, 2023 Here is my somewhat paraphrased summary of this educational video — who says “economic stuff” has to be boring … not...
by jamess
180 comments
on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 10:08 PM PDT
with 227 Recommends
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The climate crisis is not a problem for future generations to solve—it's wreaking havoc right now,�it's affecting us all, and it’s only going to get worse.�Americans from all over are feeling ...
by rrbrown2
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on Tue Aug 08, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Best seat in the house —�a Boeing 717 cockpit seen while boarding.
Here’s an observation about the way the airlines load people onto planes that came up�while ...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 10:18 AM PDT
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I have reasons for my pre-travel PTSD
In October my wife and I will be visiting NYC for a week. You’d think that I’d be excited about the trip and the chance to see old friends, yet I’m ...
by EdFlynn
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on Sat Jul 22, 2023 at 08:07 AM PDT
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Dec 30, 2022 at 02:50 PM PST
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The Southwest Airlines meltdown continues this Wednesday with at least 2500 new flight cancellations as the airline desperately attempts to find and reposition its own flight crews after a weather-caused cascading collapse of the company's scheduling...
by Hunter
130 comments
on Wed Dec 28, 2022 at 10:10 AM PST
with 119 Recommends
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Over the Christmas weekend, Southwest Airlines officials unceremoniously canceled approximately 15,700 flights that had been scheduled for the week of Dec. 22-29. Weather was a big factor, of course, thanks to Winter Storm Elliott, but the same...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
100 comments
on Wed Dec 28, 2022 at 11:30 AM PST
with 195 Recommends
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A Christmas travel weekend that kicked off with a major winter storm bringing understandable but no less disappointing flight cancellations around the country has spiraled into a total disaster for would-be passengers on one airline in particular. On...
by Laura Clawson
228 comments
on Tue Dec 27, 2022 at 09:36 AM PST
with 338 Recommends
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Just in time for the holiday travel season, the Biden administration is taking action against airlines over canceled flights—but it needs to do much more. The Department of Transportation is hitting six airlines with a total of $7.5 million in fines...
by Laura Clawson
42 comments
on Wed Nov 16, 2022 at 09:06 AM PST
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THIS IS PART ONE OF A TWO-PART SERIES. The Christmas holiday season is supposed to be a happy time for family and friends to gather together, many of whom travel a great distance to do so. But this ...
by Ian Reifowitz
80 comments
on Sat Mar 18, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Short diary, but it seems sanctions are having an effect on Russia’s airline industry. In this case, memos have been issued to commercial pilots to go easy on the brakes: The Aviatorshina Telegram channel reported that S7 Airlines told pilots to use...
by Witgren
70 comments
on Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 05:13 PM PDT
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There seems to be a “consensus” among the “very smart people” that inflation we are seeing is being caused by anything from supply chain bottlenecks to government giving people too much unearned money which is causing them to quit their service jobs...
by ScottNAtlanta
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on Sat Feb 19, 2022 at 08:58 AM PST
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Anti-vaxxers are killing people—often themselves and their loved ones—every day, given how much more lethal COVID-19 is for unvaccinated people. But one anti-vaxxer recently decided to try to take out a whole bunch of people at once, not from the...
by Laura Clawson
83 comments
on Thu Feb 17, 2022 at 12:24 PM PST
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Against the backdrop of three violent incidents of unruly in-flight behavior by air passengers over the past weekend alone, several Republican senators have banded together to oppose the creation of a federal “no-fly” list sought by airlines in order...
by Dartagnan
170 comments
on Wed Feb 16, 2022 at 10:55 AM PST
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A quick review of some of the behavior seen on airlines over the last two years. There was … The passenger who bit off one passenger’s ear off after beating another passenger. The passenger who peed in his seat as a protest against being asked to wear...
by Mark Sumner
107 comments
on Wed Feb 16, 2022 at 09:55 AM PST
with 144 Recommends
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I know it’s hard to keep track; we’re already familiar with the woman who forced an American Airlines flight to turn back in mid-route on the way to London due to her (apparently drunken) repeated, and vehement refusal to put on a mask for the flight....
by Dartagnan
371 comments
on Fri Jan 21, 2022 at 09:04 PM PST
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