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Airline fees sap the joy out of flying
Remember when you liked to fly? Bill Knauer does. Knauer, 76, of Laguna Niguel, spent his career in the food industry. He hopscotched all over the country peddling his wares. Fun fact: Knauer says he was the young Swanson executive who introduced TV...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Services and Shopping, John Wayne, American Airlines, Inc., Food Industry
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Problem Solver: Canceled flight sends teen scrambling
Lainie Weisman's first cross-country plane trip alone never got off the ground because of bad weather. The silver lining was that her mother, Mary Weisman, had purchased trip insurance to cover such a situation. That meant the family could recover the...
Tags: United Air Lines, Air Transportation Delays, Jon Yates, O'Hare International Airport, Transportation
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Maritime official floats a career idea for youths
It's a safe bet that for many youngsters a career in the maritime industry isn't one that immediately leaps to mind. Capt. Mark Stevenson wants to change that — particularly among black students. Stevenson is the president of the International...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chicago Public Schools, Science and Technology, Biology, U.S. Army
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Four die in Greensburg plane crash, NTSB to assist in investigation
The National Transportation Safety Board will arrive in Greensburg Monday afternoon to help with the investigation into a deadly plane crash that killed four people. Authorities located wreckage and the bodies of four victims near the Greensburg-...
Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents, National Transportation Safety Board, Disasters and Accidents, Accidental Death
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Holy moly: Godparents' gift giving should end
Dear Amy: We were asked to be godparents to a friend's son when he was born. We accepted and have sent money and cards to him all his life. Now he is 30 and an attorney, and we are now on a fixed income. Should we continue to send him gifts? He never...
Tags: Judges, Hotels and Accommodations, Air Transportation Delays, Human Interest, Justice System
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No clear answer to what is 'Lehigh Valley'
Q: Most of us do a lot of driving around an area commonly known as the Lehigh Valley. But what exactly is the Lehigh Valley? What would be the definition of that term? — Don Stravino, Whitehall Township Q: How did Allentown acquire the moniker,...Tags: Kutztown, Simsbury, Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Allentown Farmer's Market, Whitehall
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NYC Marathon Would Do Well Without CEO Mary Wittenberg
The Hartford CourantI cry at marathons. For those who have read my columns over many years, this may or may not come as a surprise. For some, who are sure I am an insensitive lout, this may come as a fabrication. It's true. I do cry at marathons. I do not cry for the 2012...Tags: Boston Marathon, Central Park, Conservation, Road Running, Awards and Prizes
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ASK JEFF: Airport lets you start trip off right
Travelers are busy making plans for the holiday travel season. In just a few weeks, more than 42 million people will take to the roads, rail and air as they travel to celebrate Thanksgiving. Just a few short weeks later, another 90 million travelers will...
Tags: O'Hare International Airport, AAA, St. Petersburg (Pinellas, Florida), Highway Transportation, Transportation Industry
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Wow, that's some luggage fee!
Carla Stewart believes she's flying from Madrid to Cancun on Air Europa, and that her luggage fee is 60 Euros per bag. She's wrong on both counts, and has to spend 500 Euros to transport her luggage on another airline. Who is responsible?
Q: I recently...Tags: Services and Shopping, Chris Elliott, Transportation, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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New airline rules yet to be enforced, even as DOT levies record fines
Back in August, you might recall, the Transportation Department adopted a set of tough new consumer-protection rules to help airline passengers. In January, it added even more.
But while industry observers were trying to figure out how the new...Tags: Advertising, Tourism and Leisure Industry, AirTran, Transportation Industry, Travel
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Consultants help turn frequent-flyer awards into tickets -- for a price
Christine Ballentine is a loyal US Airways customer, and she has been saving up her frequent-flyer miles for a trip to France this summer. But turning them into a ticket hasn't been easy.
"US Airways is telling me that they have flights into Nice but...Tags: Human Body, United Air Lines, Services and Shopping, Air France-KLM, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Senior Travel: 'Airpasses' of limited use
The Skyteam airline alliance just announced a new "Go Africa" airpass, which joins the alliance's existing regional airpasses for Asia, China, Europe and Italy. Skyteam (www.skyteam.com) is anchored in North America by Delta, and includes Aeroflot, Air...Tags: Human Body, Services and Shopping, Japan, Lungs and Airways, Air France-KLM
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