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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...
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Delta 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...
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Spirit 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...
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Airline 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...
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American 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...
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Air 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...
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Outrage 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...
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Bad 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...
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Alaska 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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