Airlines cash in with those extra fees
Checked bags, reservation changes bring in billions
DATE: Jun 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel
Scott Mayerowitz
What’s in a hotel name? A growing industry
Large companies target millennials with niche lodging
DATE: Apr 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel
Business travelers turn to Uber for rides
NEW YORK – Business travelers are bypassing the taxi queue with greater frequency, choosing instead ride-hailing services such as Uber Technologies.
A new report by expense manage...
DATE: Apr 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel
Just a flight of fancy or not?
Pilotless passenger flights may be possible but are unlikely for now
DATE: Apr 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
iPhone user tries to go back to BlackBerry
NEW YORK – The BlackBerry’s blinking red light used to haunt me.
Just when I thought I could relax, enjoy a nice dinner or go for a run, my BlackBerry would start blinking again, ...
DATE: Jan 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
Eager to hop a plane to Havana? Hold on
NEW YORK – Don’t rush to book that flight to Cuba just yet.
While the U.S. plans to restore diplomatic ties with the Caribbean island nation, globe-trotting tourists won’t be able...
DATE: Dec 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel
Reclining an airline seat can be risky business
As space shrinks, confrontations more common between fliers
DATE: Sep 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel
Passenger explains seat dispute, use of Knee Defender
NEW YORK – The businessman whose dispute with a fellow airline passenger over a reclined seat sparked a national debate about air-travel etiquette says he’s embarrassed by the way the confro...
DATE: Sep 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel
Mimicking airlines, hotels get fee-happy
NEW YORK – Forget bad weather, traffic jams and kids asking, “Are we there yet?” The real headache for many travelers is a quickly-growing list of hotel surcharges, even for items they never...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel
The challenge of keeping our skies safe
Safety improves as airline industry expands worldwide
DATE: Aug 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel
Airlines are expecting more travelers to fly this summer
NEW YORK – More travelers will take to the skies this summer, the U.S. airlines’ trade and lobby group predicted last week.
About 210 million passengers – or 2.28 million a day– a...
DATE: May 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel
