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Burning question: Your travel hopes for next year? What are your travel aspirations for next year? Specifically, are there any new rules, regulations or policies you’d like to see take effect next year, that would make your travel easier? (For example, the TSA’s screening technology, which would allow us to take liquids and gels on a plane.) Send me your thoughts, please. Here’s how to get in touch with me.
In this issue. Why will 2010 be the year of the travel deal? Plus, why you shouldn’t use the C-word at this airline conference, and what to do when a cruise line wants to charge you to return a lost bag.
New posts
• Why 2010 will be the year of the travel deal
• Have airlines neutralized the passenger rights movement?
• Please don’t use the C-word at this airline fee conference
• Help! Alamo won’t remember my miles
• 5 insider strategies for avoiding a hotel billing error
• My ticket price fell — how about a refund?
• Princess loses passenger’s bag, charges her to return it
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Christopher Elliott is the author of Scammed: How to Save Your Money and Find Better Service in a World of Schemes, Swindles, and Shady Deals. Critics have called it “eye-opening” and “inspiring” — it’ll “grab your attention and won’t let go.” Order your copy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or iTunes.
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