Airline Industry News

United ups Fee for Price Drop Refund

Tracy Stewart - March 27, 2009
The whole point of a price-drop refund is to save money, right? You buy a…

Long Tarmac Delays: Survival Tips

George Hobica - March 25, 2009
"I am terrified that I'll get stuck on the tarmac for hours.  I heard recently…

Tarmac Delay Policy Chart

George Hobica - March 25, 2009
"refreshements available on request"

Colossal Airline Blunders: Tell us your Battle Stories

Tracy Stewart - March 18, 2009
Did you hear the one about the airline delivering a corpse to the pet store?…

Travelocity decides to lose the booking fees

Tracy Stewart - March 17, 2009
Just last week, Expedia announced plans to temporarily scrap booking fees.  Remember that? Sure you do!…

Results for our Re-regulation Survey and the Fall Out!

Jason Ma - March 11, 2009
We asked you whether deregulation was working for you and given the current state of…
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United discontinuing weekend fare email alerts

George Hobica - March 10, 2009
What could be behind this? Cost cutting? We've noticed that sometimes United doesn't even list…

Those insansely low Iberia fares for spring travel to Europe are still bookable.

George Hobica - March 7, 2009
We thought for sure they wouldn't last but as we all know, you cannot predict…

TripAdvisor adds meta search engine

George Hobica - March 5, 2009
Since we're owned by Expedia, which owns TripAdvisor, we'll let Brett Synder over at CrankyFlyer.com…

Media feeding frenzy over Spirit's possible booking fee...but they're not the first

George Hobica - March 4, 2009
Wow, what a lot of attention Spirit has gotten thanks to an article in the…