U.S. Reportedly to Pay Fliers for Pilfered Bags
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The U.S. Transportation Security  Administration plans next week to say it will pay more than  $1.5 million to about 15,000 airline passengers who claimed  items in their checked baggage were stolen or damaged in the  last 18 months, the New York Times said on Friday.
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Sweden's IKEA will charge U.S. customers five cents for disposable plastic shopping bags in what the international furniture giant said on Wednesday was a first step to ending their use altogether.
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A fee charged to airline travelers to help pay for airport security would more than double under President Bush's proposed spending plan for the Homeland Security Department.
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Officials to ban use of some plastic bags and force consumers to pay for others, as up to 3bn used daily
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A group representing business travelers was expected to ask the US Congress on Tuesday to draft plans in the event that several major airlines are forced to liquidate.
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SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco may become the first city in the nation to charge shoppers for grocery bags.  The city's Commission on the Environment is expected to ask the mayor and board of supervisors Tuesday to consider a 17-cent per bag charge on paper and plastic grocery bags.
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The company will begin payments ranging from $25 toward a future flight to a round-trip ticket to passengers kept waiting by the airlineâs own mistakes.
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Starting next week, IKEA will charge customers five cents for every plastic bag they take home and encourage a third option to the old 'paper or plastic' conundrum: bring your own.
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San Francisco is considering charging stores 17 cents for each bag to discourage the use of plastic bags.
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Former Hollinger International Chief  Executive Conrad Black and other former executives looted the  company of more than $400 million, using the company as a  "piggy bank" to pay for private jets and club memberships,  according to a report filed on Tuesday.
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Leaders of the union representing mechanics and baggage handlers at US Airways would like to present a concession package to members within several days, the union said on Friday.
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The US government has said that it will investigate air travel disruptions over the holiday weekend that left thousands of people stranded at airports or without their luggage when they reached their destinations.
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Marsh &amp; McLennan Companies Inc. is looking to collect about $230 million in incentive fees at the heart of a bid-rigging probe by New York authorities as a way to help fund a possible settlement over the questioned fees.
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US manufacturing and labor groups are asking the Bush administration for import caps on almost $2 billion in clothing and fabric from China.
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The Transportation Department said Monday that airports could manipulate landing fees to encourage airlines to fly fewer planes, among other things.
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US Airways Group Inc.  is set to meet representatives of bankrupt Delta Air Lines Inc.  and a key group of its creditors in New York on Thursday, sources familiar with the matter said.
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The Office of Fair Trading calls for an inquiry into the supply of airport services by BAA.