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Delta Airlines Punishes Clients Who Use Travel Agents

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Use a Travel Agent? We’ll Get You, Somehow!

In a punitive move that is wrong and greedy with no justification at all, Delta Airlines is extorting an extra fee for clients who change any ticket originally booked by a travel agent. The normal $150 change fee is squeezed from its own customers and if they

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What I'm Reading - Buffalo Crash Blame - Pilots Err

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A year ago, February 12, 2009, 50 people died in the Colgan air crash as their plane was approaching Buffalo airport. The NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) has released its findings on the tragedy.

The probable cause was the captain’s inappropriate response, characterized as “startle and confusion,” after the stick shaker was activated. The captain

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Code Sharing – Information

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For years, travel consortiums and consolidators have used flight route sharing for different destinations. It is important to realize that if you book on AirTransat you may not necessarily fly on an Air Transat plane. It is an ever increasing possibility because of cost saving measures and also maintaining availability in packages to and

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Air Traffic's Terrible Year - 2009

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What we are Reading… Air Traffic’s Terrible Year – 2009

The full-year for 2009 statistical round up indicates a decline in passenger numbers that is the worst in at least fifty years.
Passenger numbers for 2009 was down 3.5 per cent. Freight declined 10.1 per cent over the year. Demand fell sharply in

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