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Frontier to add fee for frequent-flier tickets

Newsvine - business  Thu, 08/21/2008 - 12:30

Frontier Airlines is the latest airline to announce it will start charging fees when certain customers redeem frequent-flier miles.


 

Pilots complain airlines restrict fuel to cut cost

Topix - Business News  Sun, 08/10/2008 - 21:19

WASHINGTON : Pilots are complaining that their airline bosses, desperate to cut costs, are forcing them to fly uncomfortably low on fuel.


 

Pilots complain airlines restrict fuel to cut cost

Newsvine - business  Fri, 08/08/2008 - 11:17

Pilots are complaining that their airline bosses, desperate to cut costs, are forcing them to fly uncomfortably low on fuel.


 

AA Generously Charges Soldiers $100 for Extra Baggage

Digg - Business & Finance  Thu, 07/31/2008 - 06:50

Let's say you are in the military and have to undergo some training before you are deployed to Iraq to fight in a war.

Let's also say that this training requires to you bring 3 bags of equipment. If the airline you're flying charges a $100 "excess baggage" fee, but waives the $15 first checked bag fee, and the $25 second checked bag fee...


 

The 10 Most Annoying Airline Fees

Digg - Business & Finance  Fri, 05/30/2008 - 12:01

Forbes Traveler has put together a list of the top 10 most annoying airline fees, and its a good one — or is it a bad one?

Airlines are feeling the effect of skyrocking oil prices and they're trying their best to pass the costs along to you, their customers, without driving down demand.

The result? These delightful fees. Gotcha!


 

Skybus Founder says he can save the airline

Newsvine - business  Wed, 04/09/2008 - 14:31

Skybus Airlines' founder has indicated he wants to resurrect the failed airline, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported Wednesday.

Skybus abruptly shut down over the weekend, leaving thousands of travelers stranded and hundreds of workers jobless.


 

American Cancels More Flights

Newsvine - business  Tue, 04/08/2008 - 16:29

American Airlines said it was canceling up to 500 flights Tuesday, perhaps one-fifth of its schedule, to check the bundling of wires in some planes, the same issue that caused the airline to scrap more than 400 flights last month.


 

BA pilot strike talks break down

Newsvine - business  Mon, 03/10/2008 - 05:21

Talks to avert a strike by pilots, angered by British Airways' employment plans for a newly-formed transatlantic subsidiary, have broken down.

Union officers had met the airline at Acas, after an earlier vote in favour of industrial action by pilots.