Tripso Weekend, June 10, 2007
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Tripso Columns
Rules to reduce airline tensions
Every columnist seems to be warning about overcrowded airports and jam-packed airplanes this summer. That can mean trouble unless we passengers make some effort to get along and help each other through the crowded skies. Here are some simple rules to fly by. (Charles Leocha)
Help, I trashed my voucher!
The gift certificate from Fairmont Hotels & Resorts entitling Ann Mall’s daughter to a free night looks too good to be true, so she throws it away. But wait! It turns out that the voucher is legit — a gift from Mall’s son. Fairmont is balking at sending a replacement. Can this gift certificate be saved? (Christopher Elliott)
So you want to work in a hotel
Do you like working long hours? Does the thought of handling impossible requests excite you? Do you love that numb feeling you get in the balls of your feet when you’ve been standing for six hours straight? Then you’re the perfect candidate for a hotel job! (Amy Bradley-Hole)
Air travel: The right stuff
Customer satisfaction is at an all-time low. Delays and cancellations are at an all-time high. The lines are growing by leaps and bounds, and passengers’ patience is growing ever so thin. So you might wonder, “Is there anything good to say about air travel these days?” Well, yes. James Wysong can think of 10 things right off the bat. (James Wysong)
Missed the ship! Now what?
It’s the ultimate cruise nightmare: You miss your ship. Now what? Take a wild ride with one Canadian couple as they suffer a late flight, wait endlessly for their cruise bus, and then watch their ship pull away from the pier. Can this vacation be saved? (Anita Dunham-Potter)
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This week in travel
U.S. waives some border passport rules
The Bush administration on Friday temporarily waived some of its new, post-Sept. 11 requirements for flying abroad, hoping to help irate summer travelers whose trips have been jeopardized by delays in processing their passports.
JetBlue tries to bounce back from storm of trouble
JetBlue COO Russ Chew and a nearly all-new management team are working to make sure the 7-year-old carrier doesn’t go the way of past start-ups whose promise faded when fast growth and intense competition unmasked perilous flaws at the first sign of adversity.
Officer blamed in tuberculosis case
U.S. border officials told Congress on Wednesday that a lone officer undid their efforts to stop a man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis from entering the country - but that explanation was met with skepticism from lawmakers who said the case exposed plenty of holes in the nation’s security.
JetBlue still popular
JetBlue Airways Corp. is still one of the United States’ favorite airlines, despite an embarrassing cancellation fiasco in February that cost the carrier’s chief executive his job, according to a new national survey.
Feds: Informant key to foiling alleged JFK terror plot
An informant who helped break up an alleged plot to bomb a fuel pipeline feeding the city’s busiest airport was so convincing to the suspects that they actually thanked God he was with them, federal authorities said.
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