Insiders expose little-known facts the industry would rather you didn’t think about.
“Airport luggage scales often lie.”
It’s bad enough that the airlines charge a fee for overweight luggage, varying from $39 to $300 per bag industrywide. But it’s galling that they may also hit you with the fee by mistake.
At JFK last November, New York City’s [...]
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Cheap Flights 101
Six sure-fire steps to scamming the lowest possible deal on airfare, along with other ways to the best airfare prices, period
Back in the Middle Ages of air travel, airlines used to publish their rates in telephone-book-sized compendiums updated every few weeks, and your trusty travel agent would actually get on the phone to [...]
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Smart search sites and good timing can help you stay within budget!
If it’s not one thing, it’s another. You think you’ve scored a great airfare to Europe, only to be hit with a fuel surcharge that adds almost a third onto the price. You show up at the airport, packed and ready to go, and [...]
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Wizz Air, the largest low fare – low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced that it would further expand its Prague operations. As announced previously a third new Airbus A320 aircraft will be added to the airline’s Prague base on 27 March 2010. This fleet extension will enable the airline to add new [...]
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The world of ambiguous airports
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Since when has Oxford been in London? For that matter; when did Stansted, Luton or Gatwick get a London postcode? If you jumped on a train that said it was going to London, but it was actually bound for Oxford, you’d be pretty annoyed. And rightly so. So [...]
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Wizz Air, the largest low fare – low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced that it would provide re-routing alternatives to passengers affected by the suspension of SkyEurope’s operations at Vienna airport due to unpaid debts.
Passengers who hold a valid SkyEurope booking for travel between 15 and 30 August can call the Wizz [...]
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