Program for Registered Fliers Slow To Expand
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The "registered traveler" program -- in its fifth month at Reagan National Airport and one of the most popular ideas initiated by the Transportation Security Administration -- has been of little value to area travelers.
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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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Blog: Adobe sends a bunch of its developer evangelists on a road trip to show of AIR applications.
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Frequent-flier miles are easier to come by as airlines sell more miles to partners like credit card companies and hotels, but they're harder than ever to redeem.
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Thanks to new technology, it will soon be easier to find out what is available in the murky realm of frequent-flier travel redemption.
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Frequent Fliers on Finnair will be get flight info and seat assigments as text messages on their cells. Once they reply, they are checked in.
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The Department of Homeland Security is looking for some live data to feed its new Secure Flight watch-list system, so it will order airlines to fork over a months' worth of passenger itineraries. By Ryan Singel.
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Major carriers are slowly taking steps to bring high-speed Internet service to passengers on board their aircraft.
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Blog: Enhanced information isn't available for all cities yet, though.
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Fewer people are rushing to cram in miles before the end of the year to upgrade to a higher frequent-flier status.
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Time-poor corporate fliers fed up with the hassle of long lines at check-in desks and sluggish security checks are finding alternatives.
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Janice D&#39;Aloia of Portland, Ore., has about 1.5 million frequent flier miles on United Airlines. Chris Thomas, a marketing executive in Jacksonville, Fla.
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If you want to browse the Web at one, or even six miles high, your choices of airlines are expanding.
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Ready for takeoff More modern, more art
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There are plans for the Registered Traveler program to expand soon into four more airports, and the Unisys Corporation is preparing a competing program.
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American Airlines is the latest carrier to upgrade its website to make shopping for frequent-flier seats easier. AA.com now has an interactive calendar that shows AAdvantage seats over four-week periods through a "dates flexible" tab and a color-coded system showing how many miles are needed for each flight.
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Federal authorities on Tuesday unveiled a plan to hire 12,500 new air traffic controllers to offset an expected wave of retirements, but the controllers union says the proposal came too late