When someone tells you they have baggage maybe it’s just their perception of what baggage is? Baggage is what you make it! If you have too much baggage then perhaps your traveling through life a tad bit on the heavy side. You need...
opinion by LWesty | 18 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago 181 views | 14 recommendations | 3 comments
The botched opening of Heathrow's Terminal 5 generated lot of bad publicity and now even the British MP's have cited errors, inadequate training behind the chaos and called it a national embarrasment. The...
created by Sanjay Jha | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 234 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
I took them a while, but Frontier Airlines will now charge for a first checked bag. Customers will have to pay $15 starting for travel on or after November 1st. Customers currently get...
created by poolparty | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1421 views | 5 recommendations | 3 comments
United Airlines has just announced they will now DOUBLE its current second-checked baggage fee. It was $25, and as of this Tuesday that will jump to $50. This new fee will affect all travel on or after...
created by poolparty | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 647 views | 0 recommendations | 6 comments
Continental Airlines announced today they too will be charging customers for their first checked bag. They will charge economy-class domestic flyers $15. "Continental Airlines, falling in line...
created by poolparty | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1711 views | 0 recommendations | 7 comments
We have talked a lot of late about the cost-cutting measures of airlines, everything from eliminating meals, beverages and additional luggage to charging for headphones, blankets and pillows. American Airlines is...
created by chowdawg | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1358 views | 6 recommendations | 12 comments
If you want to help JetBlue test their new bag check and security system at JFK Airport, which is set to open in September, then you can now sign up for their trial, where you won't get to go anywhere, but you do...
created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 607 views | 2 recommendations | 5 comments
" A Winchendon woman said an airline did not help her after she sat in a urine-soaked seat on a West Palm Beach, Fla., to Boston flight on Sunday night."I was sitting maybe 30 seconds to minute and realized that...
Our electronic age has made many of us so dependent on gadgets that we may have withdraw symptoms if we don't take the laptop, cellphone, Blackberry, MP3 Player, GPS among other things when we travel. One...
created by nascanner | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 619 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
We’ve heard about the airlines charging for a second checked bag, but charging for your only bag??? American Airlines will begin charging customers a $15 fee for their first checked bag starting June 15th. ...
created by poolparty | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 2834 views | 14 recommendations | 21 comments
Ending the long standing woes of flyers, Indian government has passed a law to give more compensation to airlines passengers from airlines for flight delays. Of late, congestion has become a severe problem in Indian sky and flights get delayed on a daily basis. This will...
Ouch! A harsh assessment of Heathrow by an American Airlines executive. Although I have to say, having used both BA's facilities and AA's facilities at Heathrow, I don't think it's Heathrow's fault that their...
created by Dave Keating | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1014 views | 30 recommendations | 8 comments
T5 is finding its second attempt at luggage triage to be as fraught as its first. "Hopes of Heathrow's Terminal 5 operating its first full schedule of flights have been scuppered by a new glitch with the...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 289 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
It is really no surprise that the fiasco that was Terminal 5 last week has cost BA a lot of money - but 16 million pounds is a scary amount of money. I'm sure they can come back from that loss, but it's going to...
created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 231 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments