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Reservation Servicing Fees and Underqualified Travel Agents
So, you've booked through a travel agent. That can include Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz...these are giant travel agencies, but they are still travel agencies, in terms of functions. They make reservations, issue tickets, change reservations, reissue tickets, etc. To put it into one simple term: they are authorized to act as sales agents for one...
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Roundup: Playing Catchup
Enjoy the latest in airline service changes.
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Ridiculous – Plane Diverted over Praying Jew
This is not the first time this has happened, and that is sad. Today, a US Airways regional flight, flight 3079 operated by Chautaqua Airlines, from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Louisville, Kentucky was diverted to Philadelphia over a religious issue.
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Obama Insists Security Failure was in Leveraging Intelligence
President Obama said today that the December 25th attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound flight was not a failure of the U.S. Intelligence gathering system, but a failure to analyze that information and respond to it. Instead of focusing solely on defending the performance of his government, which his predecessor might have done, he came...
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The Ballad of Newark Airport
Around 5:20PM on January 3rd, a man was observed walking the wrong way down the exit lane out of the secure area of Newark Liberty Airport's Terminal C. Why no one stopped this man, as we always see a TSA agent stationed at the exit, we do not know. The response of the TSA...
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TSA Subpoenas Bloggers
("Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin). Last night, agents of the Transportation Security Administration visited the homes of two aviation bloggers: Steven Frischling, of the popular Flying with Fish blog, and Christopher Elliott, syndicated travel journalist and blogger.
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The Firestorm Continues – Security Screening in the US
We've maintained consistently that the most effective anti-terrorist tool in intelligence. Good intelligence can stop a potential terror suspect before he gets anywhere near the airport. Beyond that, we have screenings. The New York Times reports that the U.S. Government's response to a warning from the man's father that he developed radical views, had...
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Come Fly the Unfriendly Skies
On Friday, a passenger on a Northwest flight set off a small explosive device shortly before landing in Detroit. The man, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, was subdued. He had connected in Amsterdam to the flight from a KLM flight inbound from Lagos, Nigeria. He had been rescreened in Amsterdam, as is standard procedure there. The...
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Otterly Ridiculous Situation Delays Continental Flight
The Houston Chronicle reports that on Tuesday, a pair of otters chewed through their wooden cage and caused a nearly 90 minute delay as employees tried to recapture them. In fact, one employee was injured, although not seriously
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American Airlines Plane Crashes in Kingston Jamaica
Reports are coming in that an American Airlines plane overshot the runway, crashed, and broke in two. Flight 331 was landing in pouring rain at its final destination of Norman Manley Airport in Kingston, Jamaica. We will update this post as we receive additional information. The plane was carrying 148 passengers and 6 crewmembers....
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