When will fuel-related surcharges retreat? The answer is …
There’s a lively debate in the blogosphere about when the travel industry will withdraw some of the fees imposed after fuel prices took off earlier this year. With energy prices on a downward trajectory, shouldn’t the surcharges be evaporating, too?
Gate agents: the biggest victims of airline cutbacks?
Like Internal Revenue Service agents and Department of Motor vehicle employees, everyone loves to hate airline gate agents. That now includes their bosses.
USA Today: “Rising costs reshaping air travel”, Everyone else: “Duh”
The airline industry is experiencing cutbacks and rising fuel costs. Yeah, tell us something we don’t know.
Average airfares still less than in 2000
Average cost for domestic travel was $331 in the fourth quarter according to a new DOT report. That’s 4% higher than last year, but still less than back in 2000.
Delta raises fares
Delta Air Lines announced Monday that it would increase domestic fares between $10 and $40 per round trip.
Business travelers over an oil barrel
David Grossman, writing in USAToday.com, says higher jet fuel prices combined with an economic downturn will be good news neither for the airlines nor passengers.
Oil prices hit record high, then dip
The price of oil climbed to a record-high $103.05 per barrel before dipping to $102.07 on Friday.