Happy Labor Day weekend. Or for the 1.5 million of you out there (including me) estimated to be taking a plane somewhere, good luck in the airport.
We haven't seen airfare prices this low for a decade. But will the deals stick around? Here's your guide to getting the cheapest ticket in town.
The days of being cut off from the Internet while you're on a plane are quickly disappearing.
Airline performance improved in 2008 for the first time in five years, according to an annual airline quality report released Monday.
Whether you call the practice à la carte pricing or nickel-and-diming passengers, the fees most airlines now charge for everything from food and drinks to checked bags aren't going away. With far fewer people flying because of the economy -- especially business travelers -- many carriers are counting on this revenue more than ever.
I admit, I have an unfair advantage.
AirTran Airways apologized Friday to members of a Muslim family for kicking them off a plane and refusing to rebook them despite requests from FBI agents who had cleared them of wrongdoing.
A Muslim family removed from an airliner Thursday after passengers became concerned about their conversation say AirTran officials refused to rebook them, even after FBI investigators cleared them of wrongdoing.
Christina Stansbury's fiance is headed to Las Vegas with his best man for a bachelor party. Or are they? When they get to the airport, it turns out their airline has stopped flying to Sin City, and now their online agency is balking at a refund. Can this trip be saved?
The grip U.S. airlines have on travelers' wallets is about to get tighter as carriers go ahead with plans to trim their domestic schedules due to the high cost of fuel
Happy Labor Day weekend. Or for the 1.5 million of you out there (including me) estimated to be taking a plane somewhere, good luck in the airport.
We haven't seen airfare prices this low for a decade. But will the deals stick around? Here's your guide to getting the cheapest ticket in town.
The days of being cut off from the Internet while you're on a plane are quickly disappearing.
Airline performance improved in 2008 for the first time in five years, according to an annual airline quality report released Monday.
Whether you call the practice à la carte pricing or nickel-and-diming passengers, the fees most airlines now charge for everything from food and drinks to checked bags aren't going away. With far fewer people flying because of the economy -- especially business travelers -- many carriers are counting on this revenue more than ever.
I admit, I have an unfair advantage.
AirTran Airways apologized Friday to members of a Muslim family for kicking them off a plane and refusing to rebook them despite requests from FBI agents who had cleared them of wrongdoing.
A Muslim family removed from an airliner Thursday after passengers became concerned about their conversation say AirTran officials refused to rebook them, even after FBI investigators cleared them of wrongdoing.
Christina Stansbury's fiance is headed to Las Vegas with his best man for a bachelor party. Or are they? When they get to the airport, it turns out their airline has stopped flying to Sin City, and now their online agency is balking at a refund. Can this trip be saved?
The grip U.S. airlines have on travelers' wallets is about to get tighter as carriers go ahead with plans to trim their domestic schedules due to the high cost of fuel
Most of the major airline stocks took a dive during Thursday afternoon trading, as the price of oil - the industry's greatest obstacle - surged more than $5.
Airline stocks on Wednesday traded higher as oil prices - the industry's greatest burden - plunged.
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The airline industry did an overall poor job last year according to the Air Quality Rating survey, released Monday
When AirTran cancels Daniel Richards' flight from Savannah, Georgia, to Atlanta, a supervisor offers him two options: Either get rebooked on a flight tomorrow, or rent a car at the airline's expense. Richards accepts the second offer, but now AirTran isn't processing a refund as promised. What can he do?
Midwest Air Group Inc., which had been fending off hostile suitor AirTran Holdings Inc., said Friday it accepted a higher bid of about $450 million from private equity firm TPG Capital and Northwest Airlines Corp.
Stocks surged at the start of Friday's session, with the Dow industrials soaring as much as 319 points, after the Federal Reserve in a surprise move, cut the symbolic discount rate.
Stocks remained poised to open lower Wednesday despite an in-line reading on consumer inflation, as ongoing credit concerns continued to trouble investors.
AirTran Holdings Inc. said Tuesday it raised its offer to buy rival Midwest Air Group Inc. to $16.25 a share, or about $445 million overall, exceeding the value of a buyout deal accepted by Midwest over the weekend.
Midwest Air Group Inc., which had been fending off hostile suitor AirTran Holdings Inc., has accepted a higher bid of more than $400 million from private equity firm TPG Capital and Northwest Airlines Corp.
Beth Zukowski books six airline tickets on AirTran Airways through Expedia. The online agency charges her a booking fee and bills her for flight protection insurance, but fails to buy her tickets. The reason? Her credit card was declined, it says. But her credit card company disputes the story. Now AirTran wants her to pay more than $200 extra to buy new tickets. What should she do?
Stocks appeared to be looking for direction early Thursday, the day after yet another record high close for the Dow Jones industrial average and a strong earnings outlook from Dow component Hewlett-Packard.
Travel alert: You'll be paying more to fly this summer on planes that are more crowded than ever - even after you've bought your ticket.
Delta Air Lines emerged from bankruptcy early Monday as a leaner but still independent carrier after a 19-month reorganization that saw it fight off a $10 billion hostile takeover.
1. More airport trouble: Though we "reported" in Tuesday's 10 Spot that Michael Vick would address Congress that day to lobby for more funding for after-school programs, Vick was actually a no-show. The Falcons quarterback was traveling to D.C. from Tampa, where he had played in teammate Warrick Dunn's charity golf tournament. Vick was scheduled to change planes in Atlanta, but his AirTran flight from Tampa was delayed and he missed his connection. The Tampa-Atlanta flight must have been really late, moreover, since we all know that Vick can run; he probably would have made O.J. look like a sluggard as he busted through the terminal to catch his flight. But here's a valid question raised by reader Chris Adams of Charlotte: Can't Vick spring for a direct flight from Tampa to D.C.? Didn' t he sign a 10-year contract extension a while back worth an estimated $130 million? AirTran is an airline for, well, poor people like me.
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After a series of deep pay and benefit cuts since 2004, Delta Air Line employees are about to get improved pay and cash bonuses.
More than 500 flights at the Atlanta and Charlotte airports were canceled as wintry weather brought rain, sleet and freezing rain across North Georgia and into the Carolinas on Thursday.
Sony PC-B-Q... Defects in batteries made by Sony for portable computing cause a handful of notebooks to burst into spectacularly photogenic flames. The end result is the biggest computer-related recall ever, as Dell replaces the batteries in more than 4 million laptops. In short order, Apple (1.8 million), Lenovo/IBM (500,000), and others do the same.
New York Times Co. We were wondering how Billy the paperboy could afford that gold-plated Huffy... News carriers and retailers in Worcester, Mass., get an unexpected bonus with their usual shipment of the Telegram & Gazette: the credit and debit card numbers of 240,000 subscribers to the paper and its sister publication the Boston Globe, both owned by the New York Times Co. The security breach is the result of a recycling program in which paper from the Telegram & Gazette's business office is reused to wrap bundles of newspapers.
Here are some of the companies whose shares were active in late trading on Wednesday:
Airline stocks have soared the past four months as strong fares and falling jet fuel prices have lifted the outlook for the troubled industry.
Stocks turned mixed Wednesday morning, giving up some early gains, as investors welcomed strong November retail sales and mergers in the airline industry but showed caution amid higher oil prices and Treasury bond yields.
Stocks bounced back Wednesday morning, following the previous session's Fed policy-induced selloff as investors welcomed strong November retail sales and eyed a couple possible mergers in the airline industry.
Airline passengers could soon face far fewer choices booking flights, and that could mean higher fares in many markets.
Stocks were poised for a big start on talk of a new round of airline mergers and a strong reading on spending by consumers.
The Dow Jones industrial average hit another record close Wednesday, as investors welcomed further signs that the economy is slowing at a moderate pace, and not heading for recession.
When you hear "JetBlue," "AirTran" or "Southwest," you think "cheap fares." These and other low-cost airlines have rapidly expanded in the past six years, bringing bargains to more markets and burn...
Stocks rallied Friday at the end of a choppy week on Wall Street, as investors welcomed falling oil prices and soothing comments from a Federal Reserve official regarding inflation and interest rates.
Stocks were on track to end Friday's session in positive territory, helped by another drop in the price of oil and comments from a Fed official, despite another earnings warning from the home building industry.
Stocks continued their climb in Friday afternoon trade as investors grappled with lower crude prices and comments from Fed officials and a outlook for the economy and the pressure of inflation.
Buying an airline ticket has never been a simple task - the rules of the game are always changing. But if you know how the game is played, you'll have a better chance of saving money.
The airline industry appears to be slipping when it comes to performance, according to a survey published Monday.
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Among the biggest problems facing Kodak recently--and it has a ton of them--was what to do about a name. Battered by declining revenues and a stock price hovering near 20-year lows, Kodak had pinne...
Anheuser-Busch has gotten itself in trouble with an airline that takes offense at a recent "Real Men of Genius" radio spot that pokes fun at discount-carrier pilots, according to a recent report.
With the Chapter 11 filings from Delta and Northwest, fully half of all seats in the airline industry are on carriers operating under bankruptcy protection -- not a comforting thought as you get ready to plan your next trip.
The name Manning is legendary in the city of New Orleans for two generations of football greats. Now those hometown heroes are doing what they can to help their friends, family and thousands of their longtime fans recover from Hurricane Katrina.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina could hasten Delta Air Lines Inc.'s already likely bankruptcy and add to problems facing the rest of the hard-pressed U.S. airline industry, Standard & Poor's said Wednesday.
Flight departure delays are at their worst level since 2000, according to a published report.
AT 12:30 ON A RECENT TUESDAY AFTERNOON, GARY KELLY, Southwest Airlines' new CEO, dropped in at a small mechanics' lounge in the bowels of Chicago's Midway airport. Nobody recognized him, so he intr...
Flamboyant rocker Sir Elton John will be getting plenty of frequent flier miles. Well, at least his face will.
Delta Air Lines shocked the already turbulent airline industry a few weeks ago by slashing prices.
Delta Air Lines Wednesday slashed fares by up to 50 percent in the most aggressive bid by a major airline so far to fend off cut-throat competition from low-cost carriers.
Southwest Airlines could essentially take control of bankrupt airline ATA Airlines under discussions held Monday, according to a published report.
You're in a strange city with an hour between meetings. If only you could find a place to check your e-mail. You can always hit a Kinko's, Starbucks, or UPS Store—all Wi-Fi-equipped—provided there'...
While low-fare carriers will carry more passengers this holiday season than ever before, the fastest growing segment of the airline industry is facing more serious financial problems than ever before.
I've been a diver since high school. I joined the police department and worked the road for four years. I went to the marine patrol; then a position opened in this unit in 1992. I've been here eve...
Ask Dave Ulmer, chief of planning at JetBlue, about his industry and he can hardly contain his glee. To him, the towering fares charged by the major U.S. airlines are a gilt-edged invitation to mak...
Now that Americans can fly across the country for about $200 round trip, record numbers of travelers are sitting back, trying to relax and enjoy those four- or five-hour flights.
A discount airline revolution is under way, bringing cheap fares, simple pricing and some surprising perks to millions of air travelers across the United States. Haven't flown a low-fare carrier ye...
If you've been waiting around for the airlines to discount fares for summer travel, now might be time to pounce, as the deals will be few and far between as the weather warms up.
ATA Airlines is getting set to go where few of the low-fare carriers have tried to go before: into wider business class seats.
Low-cost airlines, which have been giving major carriers financial fits by undercutting their fares, may also be providing a better customer experience than their full-service competitors, according to results of an airline quality study released Monday.
Continental Airlines Inc., the nation's fifth largest commercial carrier, said Friday it increased fares on domestic tickets to offset higher fuel costs.
Board an AirTran flight in Dayton, Ohio, and peek out the window. There's a good chance you'll see Nick Meyer ushering your plane out to the runway. If he looks oddly familiar, it's no coincidence:...
Your child is heading off to college, and you've devised a plan to pay the big bill. But as Marc Freedman, a financial planner in Peabody, Mass., says, "parents usually plan for the expense of coll...
In a room strewn with hamburger wrappers, union officials lay on the floor in silent, stunned exhaustion. John Darrah, president of the pilots' union at American Airlines, was still at work. It was...
The mayday came Aug. 14, but the crisis at United Airlines had been building for years. On that Wednesday, CEO Jack Creighton, the Solomonic 70-year-old who had been summoned from retirement to act...
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Although Jerry Greenwald isn't CEO of anything right now, he is better placed than anyone to judge the government's $15 billion bailout of the airline industry. In the late '90s Greenwald ran Unite...
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If the Northwest Airlines strike had you worried about losing miles on the airline's WorldPerks program that were due to expire at the end of the year, don't sweat it: Northwest has extended the pr...
The standard history of modern American manufacturing reads like a Rocky script. Pummeled by foreign competitors, out-of-shape American manufacturers rehabilitated themselves with massive job sacri...
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In early December, when America Online began offering customers unlimited use of its service for $19.95 a month, it seemed as if cheap Internet access had finally become universal. Now just about a...
The Los Angeles night had set in a couple of hours before, after one of the truly spectacular sunsets that filter the last glimmers of sunshine through the wheeze and exhaust of a million moving ca...
THE CONUNDRUM of the upstart airline goes something like this: An entrepreneur surveys the wreckage of carriers come and gone and decides that he (they always seem to be men) can make it work this ...
Until now, travel agents have always touted their free services: You get their expertise at no cost because they earn commissions of 5% to 11% of each ticket or package price they book from airline...
Friendly skies? Fiendish skies is more like it. As 1995 takes off, the U.S. airline industry is lumbering away from what looks like its fourth straight year of monumental losses. The red ink since ...
Feel like starting your own airline? Plenty of people do these days. Emboldened in part by the runaway success of low-cost, no-frills operator Southwest Airlines -- the most admired in its category...
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