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JetBlue Has a New Boarding Scheme. It’s Complicated

To airline managers, an airplane sitting on the ground is a horror: an expensive asset failing to justify its expense. The goal is full utilization, which means keeping planes airborne as many hours as possible, with as many passengers on board as possible. One key to maximizing utilization is timely turn-arounds, which require quick, orderly
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United ‘Re-Accommodates’ a Passenger and the Internet Explodes

The media—social media, asocial media, major media, marginal media, all media—has been positively aflame for the past 24 hours with reporting and editorializing on United Airlines’ latest mishandling of a passenger confrontation. The facts of the case are not in dispute. United’s Sunday-night flight UA3411 between Chicago and Louisville was full—100 percent full—and all passengers
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Judge: Airline Price-Fixing Lawsuit Can Proceed

If you’re among the many air travelers who believe that the airlines have conspired to keep airfares high by restraining capacity growth, you’re about to have that suspicion reality-checked in a court of law. Late last week, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., overruled objections by the airlines and gave the go-ahead to a class-action
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Cheap Transatlantic Fares Could Be Coming to Your City Soon

If you’re looking for yet another reason to cross the Atlantic, WOW Air just gave you one: The Icelandic-based airline is expanding low transatlantic fares and “second city” air routes. Cheap Transatlantic Fares from WOW Air WOW Air currently offers flights to Montreal, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and New York from various European
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Is Uber a Force for Good, or for Evil?

Computing the Social Value of Uber. (It’s High.) That’s the headline of a recent Bloomberg article that attempts to put Uber, both the company and the ride-share business model generally, into the perspective of overall economic gains or losses for society. Does Uber, in other words, have a positive or negative value to society? Based
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10 Wallet-Friendly and Most-Searched Destinations for 2018

Kayak is out with its Travel Hacker Guide for 2018 , led by its list of the top trending destinations for 2018. There aren’t any out-of-left-field locales—they’re all pretty well-known destinations—but they have “the greatest percent increase in searches year over year.” The Most-Searched Destinations for 2018 Maui Barcelona Bali Amsterdam Lisbon Las Vegas Madrid
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Why Turkey Suspended Travel Visas for Americans

The U.S. and Turkey are engaged in an escalating war of words and visa regulations, and travelers are caught in the middle. As it stands today, American tourists without a travel visa to visit Turkey can’t get one. Aydan Karamanoglu, a spokesman for the Turkish Embassy in Washington D.C., told the New York Times that “right
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Alaska Air Is Latest to Cut Cuba Flights

The Trump administration’s newly imposed restrictions on travel to Cuba were expected to have a chilling effect on U.S. tourism to the island nation , but maybe not so quickly. The U.S. Department of the Treasury last week announced a handful of restrictions and sanctions that prohibit Cuba visits that were previously allowed under the
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