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Airline Pilots Seek Big Raises, and Broader Changes
Staffing shortages, bad weather, high fuel prices and runaway inflation — airlines face plenty of challenges as they seek to benefit from a strong travel rebound. But there’s at least one other complication in the mix: negotiating new pilot contracts. Each of the nation’s largest carriers is in the process of trying to strike a […]
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Help! The Airline Changed My Flight Itinerary (for the Worse)
Dear Tripped Up, My question is about airlines switching itineraries, a huge frustration for me since returning to travel after a pandemic pause. I will book a direct flight at a good time and then get an email days or weeks later with an inconvenient time change or an added layover or both. The worst […]
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What to Do When Airlines Cancel Travel Vouchers
But airlines are now beginning to scale back their promises. “These companies are first and foremost businesses and at some point need to look at the economics of having these liabilities out there,” he said, referring to those miles and vouchers. But, he added, they needed to do so fairly, with clearly communicated policies and […]
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Millions of Bees Bound for Alaska Are Rerouted and Die in Atlanta
When Sarah McElrea arrived at the Anchorage airport last Friday to pick up the 800 pounds of honeybees she was having shipped from Sacramento, she got the first sense of a disaster in the making: The bees — some five million of them — were in Atlanta, not Anchorage. The 200 crates of bees were […]
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Airlines Expect Booming Travel Ahead. Can They Keep Up?
In all, American has expanded its work force by 12,000 employees, or 10 percent, since last summer. Delta said last week that it had added about 15,000 workers since the start of last year. United has hired 6,000 this year. But as of February, none of the major carriers had returned to prepandemic employment levels, […]
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Where Do Travelers Still Need to Wear Masks?
A federal judge in Florida struck down the federal mask requirement for planes and public transit on Monday, which had been set to expire on May 3. Within 24 hours, all major U.S. airlines, as well as the Amtrak rail system, had declared that they were no longer requiring masks for passengers or employees. The […]
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Which U.S. Airlines Dropped Their Mask Mandate
After a federal judge struck down a nationwide mask requirement for airplanes, trains, buses and other public transportation on Monday, the country’s largest airlines said they would stop requiring masks on flights, ending a practice that most carriers followed for nearly two years. The airlines acted after a Biden administration official said the Transportation Security […]
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Fuel Prices Send Airfares Higher, but Travelers Seem Ready to Pay
A stunning rise in the cost of jet fuel has sent airfares soaring, and industry experts say they are likely to go higher. For now, though, travel-starved consumers seem more than willing to pay up. Jet fuel prices have settled somewhat since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent them skyrocketing last month, but the market remains […]
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Passenger Exposed Buttocks and Threw a Can During Flight, Prosecutors Say
A passenger who refused to wear a mask on a flight from Dublin to New York pulled down his pants and exposed his buttocks, threw a can at a passenger and put his cap on the captain’s head and told him, “Don’t touch me,” prosecutors said in a case unsealed on Friday. After the Delta […]
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