Travel Through Life with No Baggage!

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...

Heathrow T5 was 'national embarrassment'

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...

Frontier Airlines to charge for first checked bag

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...

United Airlines will double second-checked bag fee to $50

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...

Continental Airlines will charge for 1st checked bag

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...

Troops pay baggage fees on way to war zones

"(CNN) -- Some airlines are charging U.S. soldiers extra baggage fees to take their military kits with them as they set off for war. ...

American Airlines charging troops for extra baggage

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...

JetBlue offers free trip to nowhere from JFK

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...

Woman Says She Sat In Urine-Soaked Airplane Seat

" 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...

Too Many Gadgets can make your Vacation a Disaster

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...

American Airlines will charge for 1st checked bag

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. ...

Indian flyers to get compensation for delays

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...

Airline says Heathrow "worst in Europe"

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...

Terminal 5: Return to Baggage Mountain

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...

BA's Terminal 5 losses top £16m

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...

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