Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / May 2008

Reports suggest that American Airlines is pulling out of the
Stansted-New York route after just nine months. The carrier is
apparently withdrawing daily flights launched last October on July 2nd.
That's a bit sudden! What happens to people with tickets booked more

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/articl
e4031323.ece
From Times Online
May 30, 2008
Silverjet ceases flying as cash runs out

A while back there was a website that allowed users to subscribe to
their service which basically let you prepay airfare to a certain
location for a set price. And no matter what the price never
increased, kind of like a time share, the price of you room is

My first post here, I'm hoping you might be able to help me. I'm
flying on Thomas Cook TCX329k on 25th June to Rhodes from LGW, and
wondered if there was anywhere I could find a timetable that states
what aircraft type will operate it?

Unhappy travelers cost airlines $9 billion in revenue
By Christopher Hinton, MarketWatch
Last update: 1:34 p.m. EDT May 29, 2008
Some air travelers prefer to stay home rather than suffer through flight

Another sign of decay in the air transport system.
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Fuel's Rise Hurts Pittsburgh, Cincinnati as Airlines Cut Flying
By Mary Jane Credeur

Last weekend I had the opportunity to take Amtrak from San Jose up to
Klamath Falls, for a Boy Scout outing for my son's troop. This was his
first Boy Scout outing, having just finished Cub Scouts. Apparently this
troop uses AmTrak quite a bit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7425631.stm
BA fuel surcharges rise further
BA is passing on higher fuel costs to customers
British Airways has said it will increase its fuel surcharges on all

Frequent Air travelers eventually go nutty and end up like Kulp.
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The waning days of the road warrior
Current slowdown in business travel may not end when economy recovers

International air travel declines
Posted on: May 28th, 2008 by Jean Adams
 The number of people travelling internationally in business class and first
class cabins has dropped more dramatically than at any other point over the

From Businessweek.
Memo to American Airlines: You Need a PR Transfusion
Posted by: David Kiley on May 27
There is much hub-bub over American Airlines¹ $15 fee for a checked bag, and

My sister has a flight on NW today. She called the airline last night
because at the time of her reservation there were only middle seats
available, and she wanted to change her seat assignment. The phone agent
told her that there were now plenty of window and aisle seats ...

Oh boy - I can see oversized carry-ons trying to get squeezed into
bins!
link:  http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hmYw2BQoOdP6awY7XQq_YMhgyBywD90Q3DH00
snip:

Nobody would accuse SAA of having a sense of humour, certainly not
intentionally. However their web-site is like a Monty Python sketch of
the Optimistic Travel Agent.
I wanted to see if my air miles would enable our daughter to visit us

I got a call from JetBlue that they've dropped service between SLC and
SFO, a route that I was holding four tickets for. Bummer. I thought that
flights between relatively major city airports were safe. They offered
to route us from Oakland to Long Beach to SLC, but I passed on ...