Air Travelersâ Woes Likely to Worsen This Year
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Some big airlines are planning to reduce domestic capacity in 2008 with the hope of driving fares higher to offset rising fuel costs.
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Airlines are slashing costs and planning to eliminate jobs, admitting that they expect to post weak results in the fourth quarter and see a bleak start to 2005.
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Days of bad weather, a computer malfunction and sick airline employees put tens of thousands of travelers in holiday limbo Saturday, with Comair canceling all its flights and US Airways trying to reconnect thousands of pieces of luggage with their owners.
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If you've flown this past spring and summer, you've probably noticed fuller flights. Hate to tell you this, but with Thanksgiving and Christmas approaching, you can expect more of the same.
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At 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 29, travelers walking into the American Airlines terminal at Logan International Airport had an unmistakable look on their faces: panic.
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Passengers taking to the skies for U.S. flights could be checking e-mail and surfing the Web through high-speed Internet connections in a couple of years. And the day when travelers can chat away on cell phones while in flight might not be far behind.
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DETROIT _ As Northwest Airlines passengers continued to cope Tuesday with widespread flight cancellations, the outlook for the next few days was shaping up into four bad words:  More of the same.
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Soaring fuel prices and slowing economic growth are likely to wipe out much of the airline industryâs profits next year, despite steady increases in global demand for air travel.
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The world&#39;s major airlines are expected to rack up about $US4.8 billion ($A6.33 billion) in losses this year and will climb back to profit next year only if oil prices fall, the top industry body warned today.
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Domestic airfares generally continue to decline in spite of predictions of modest airfare increases in the months ahead and record-high oil prices crippling the airline industry.
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ATLANTA - Heavy suitcases aren&#39;t alone in weighing down airplanes and requiring them to burn more fuel, raising flight costs. A new government study reveals that airlines increasingly have to worry more about passengers&#39; weight.
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Problems abound for air travel. But there is hope.
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Tourism businesses blame the bad weather as new figures reveal a mixed season for the industry.
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My business travel is fairly uneventful. But a flight this year did force me onto a slippery slope of morality.
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With more travelers taking to the skies, itâs becoming harder to find a parking spot at the airport.
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After poor airline service, sleep, or the difficulty of getting enough of it, is what frequent business travelers talk about most.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Pilots and air traffic controllers have warned that shoddy safety systems could be putting passengers at risk in South America's two largest countries, prompting an international outcry for rapid overhauls of the organizations that manage air transit in Argentina and Brazil.