AIRLINES SWEAT PERFECT STORM
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Hurricane Frances is converging with other calamities to form the perfect storm for the nation&#39;s beleaguered airlines. Hundreds of flights to Florida from New York
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Northwest, Continental, and Delta have a frequent flyer alliance. Too bad they're so stingy with their rewards.
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Preparing for the launch of 50 new flights from Reagan National Airport on Sunday, the airline has demanded that baggage handlers work overtime to prevent service disruptions like those that angered customers over Christmas weekend.
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Between the endless security lines, crowded planes and ever-increasing flight delays, air travel has never seemed more difficult.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Half a dozen passengers were badly injured after an Air Canada plane bucked in midair on a flight across Canada, probably because of heavy turbulence.
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Delta Air Lines subsidiary Comair plans to resume a normal flight schedule today, while management and union leaders at US Airways blame each other for their carrier&#39;s weekend &quot;operational meltdown.
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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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The holiday season hasn't exactly brought good cheer to air travelers already besieged by near-record-setting flight delays this year.
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Looking around San Diego&#39;s Lindbergh Field, it&#39;s hard to tell that the airline business is in distress. On any given day, tens of thousands of people make their way through its terminals to travel to destinations near and far.
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A POTENTIAL flight attendants&#39; strike and record crowds at the nation&#39;s airports could combine to make travel the most cheerless aspect of this holiday season.
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Between flight delays, missed connections and crowded flights, a business traveler has to have the resourcefulness of a person ready for stealthy ground combat.
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Nervous fliers use pills to round the edges of jet travel.
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Major airlines turn in a surprising industry performance.
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Last month was awful for the airlines because of factors like weather and the fact that kids go back to school earlier than they used to.
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NEW YORK : Storms, skyrocketing fuel prices, cutthroat competition and labor costs have shaped turbulent times for US airlines, and the troubles are starting to trickle down to the low-cost carriers.
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Travelers headed home for Thanksgiving were greeted Wednesday with snow-covered highways in the Midwest, heavy rain and tornadoes in parts of the South, and long security lines at some of the nation&#39;s airports.
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The European Union tomorrow will impose the world's toughest rules on airlines for passenger rights, potentially requiring refunds and penalty payments even if a flight is canceled or significantly delayed by bad weather or mechanical problems. The system would be the world's first to cover situations that have traditionally been considered outside an airline's control.