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05/06/03 - Fare talk You don't always know what you are going to get when you purchase an airline ticket. Why is it that every person on a flight may have paid a different price to fly? Can you change or cancel your tickets, and if so, at what cost? The airlines have a seemingly secretive formula for constructing airfares. Knowing what types of airfares exist, and how they apply to your travel may not mean that airfares make sense, but you can at least make sense of them. 04/23/03 - Airlines Write! Many airlines produce inflight magazines, there to give you details about their fleet, or inflight entertainment, sometimes articles about places they travel to, or other diversions. Read on about this aspect of inflight entertainment! 04/12/03 - SARS - Changing Airline Policies Airlines are constantly revising schedules, reducing flight services to different parts of the world, and laying off employees. The most recent instigator of these changes is not war but rather SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome). 04/03/03 - SARS affects the health of Air Travel It's not just war or armed conflict that can have an adverse effect on air travel. A virulent virus can cause enough ripples of panic in passengers that travel plans are altered, and airlines suffer as people stop flying or stay closer to home. 03/21/03 - Airlines react to war - Flight Schedules trimmed The reaction to war in Iraq has been swift in the air travel industry. Airlines are limiting their flights to certain parts of the world. Read more about canceled flights and reduced schedules in the face of war. 03/12/03 - Airline Policies in Case of War War brings up questions of what one can do with one's airline ticket if it is already booked and paid for. Many airlines have recently introduced policies to give passengers options in the event of war. 02/26/03 - Hooters Air Flies Perks of air travel - one often thinks of frequent flyer miles, upgrades, perhaps access to executive lounges. Welcome to a new type of air travel perk - Hooters girls. Hooters Air is set to bring its own brand of travel to the skies! 02/14/03 - Free falling - Skydiving Want to take a flying leap? The adventurous side of air travel is one where your legs are the landing gear. Skydiving frees you of seat belts, but is not for the faint of heart. 02/09/03 - Taking Flight Want to fly differently? Consider taking to the skies in a small aircraft, or go sightseeing over Antarctica or Mount Everest. 02/02/03 - Up, Up and Away in a Hot Air Balloon When one thinks of a romantic flight, visions of hot air balloons fill the air. You may not float around the world in 80 days but you can soar by hot air balloon and take in the romance of the great outdoors. 01/30/03 - Love is in the air - by Helicopter Want to do something special? A helicopter flight can prove to be a romantic option, and even affordable. Or perhaps you want a unique experience and have James Bond visions of flying in a mighty rotor machine. 01/17/03 - Disappearance in the Peruvian Jungle January 9th, 2003 marked the disappearance of an airplane in Peru, just minutes before it was scheduled to land in Chachapoyas, approximately 400 miles (640 kilometres) north of Lima. 01/10/03 - Take-off turns tragic The morning of January 8th, 2003 marked a tragic accident as a full commuter flight crashed only 37 seconds after take-off, killing 21 people at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport (CLT). 01/05/03 - More Screening for Checked Luggage Stricter airport measures for checked luggage became reality on January 1st, 2003. It affects all passengers traveling to, from or through U.S. airports. Archives > 2002 Features |
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