DFW to the Land Down Under — Non-Stop
Good news for Dallas travelers who want to visit the “land down under” — Australia just got a little closer. Well not exactly closer…but it’ll be easier to get there! Starting in May, DFW will have a...
View ArticleDelta Calls Audible, Adds Flights to Big D for Steelers Fans
Good news for Steelers fans: Delta is adding 3 nonstop flights between Pittsburgh and Dallas/Fort Worth for the weekend of Super Bowl XLV. That’s right, Steelers fans: Delta is calling an audible just...
View ArticleSpirit Lowers Checked-Bag Weight Allowance – Pack Light or Pay More
There are two distinct parts to today’s “airline fee era”: brand new fees, and making the fees we already pay more onerous. This post falls into the latter category – and, no surprise, really – it...
View ArticleAirline Fees + Internet = Disaster (Now and Then)
You may have heard me talk about how we’re in the midst of a new “Airline Fee Generation” – with fees for all kinds of services we used to get for nothing (and please see our Domestic Airline Fee...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines Diets to Save on Fuel Costs
I got a kick out of a recent story on the Dallas NBC affiliate (and in the interest of full disclosure, I’ve appeared on their news many times – most recently in a story called “Time to Bag TSA...
View ArticleAir Traffic Controller AWOL at Airport Along with Common Sense
UPDATE: Officials are now saying the controller fell asleep on the job. EARLIER: This was all over the news today: how first an American Airlines plane, and then a United flight landed at D.C.’s...
View ArticleAirline Fees and Summer Travel – Video
If you didn’t catch me talking about some of the airline fees you could be paying this summer today on CNBC, please take a look at the video below – see me talk about past, present and future fees. By...
View ArticleOutrage over Spirit Airlines’ New Baggage Fee
Well, there’s outrage in the media over this new baggage fee at least. I haven’t really heard much from passengers. I am talking about a new fee from low-cost airline Spirit that’s really more of a...
View ArticleBad Weather, Flight Delays or Cancelations and You
So far, this has been a nasty year for weather: Lots of snow (remember the white stuff disrupting the Dallas Super Bowl festivities?) and lots of stormy weather. Recently, FareCompare Editor Anne...
View ArticleAlaska Airlines to Issue iPads to Pilots
Can a cockpit get any more high-tech? Apparently so. Beginning later this month, Alaska Airlines will issue iPads to all its pilots. There are a number of reasons for this, and one of them has to do...
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