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Score one for the airline lobby! And congratulations to Spirit Airline. Your paranoid email to customers (twisting the new regulations to make them seem like a Big Brotherish attempt to hide taxes, rather than a consumer-friendly measures
To celebrate the opening of the new museum on February 14, seven lucky couples will get to tie the knot or renew their vows in the museum's historic courtroom. Presiding over the weddings will be museum founder, and exuberant ex-Mayor Oscar Goodman.
The Department of Transportation is now requiring that carriers advertise their fares with taxes included. So no more finding a great fare, and clicking on an ad only to find that with taxes and fees, its out of your price range.
I love number crunchers. Especially when they help save me money. And that's what the lovable geeks at the Airlines Reporting Corp have done.They looked at airfare transactions, millions of them, from the last four years and found that those who booked tickets six weeks ahead of travel paid 6% less than the average fare on that route.
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PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) -- Laura Dekker set a steady foot aboard a dock in St. Maarten on Saturday, ending a yearlong voyage aboard a sailboat named "Guppy" that apparently made her the youngest person ever to sail alone around t
(New York, NY) -- Contract talks between the MTA and the Transit Workers Union have hit a speed bump. The head of the union bolted from negotiations with the transit agency Thursday, reportedly angry that MTA officials allegedly leaked i
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GENEVA (AP) -- The International Air Transport Association says passenger demand grew 5.9 percent last year but lagged behind capacity increases. The group, which represents some 240 major airlines, says the airlines increased their available seats
GIGLIO, Italy - Rough seas off Italy's Tuscan coast have forced a delay in the start of the operation to pump out half a million gallons of fuel from the grounded cruise liner Costa Concordia. The choppy waters also partiall
ROME (AP) -- Costa Crociere SpA is offering uninjured passengers euro11,000 ($14,460) apiece to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma after its cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany when the captain deviated from his
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PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) -- Laura Dekker set a steady foot aboard a dock in St. Maarten on Saturday, ending a yearlong voyage aboard a sailboat named "Guppy" that apparently made her the youngest person ever to sail alone around t
(New York, NY) -- Contract talks between the MTA and the Transit Workers Union have hit a speed bump. The head of the union bolted from negotiations with the transit agency Thursday, reportedly angry that MTA officials allegedly leaked i
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government says flights were on-time more often in November than a year earlier, and only one U.S. passenger plane was stuck on the ground for more than three hours. The Transportation Department said Thursday that 85.3 p