Checking your suitcase now costs more than your airline ticket. It’s time for this to end.
There’s a new milestone in American air travel: checking your suitcase may now cost more than your seat.
CONGRESS
This bill makes it unlawful to remove passengers from planes. But that’s not enough.
Here we go again. Congress is trying to pass yet another Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, a rare opportunity to help airline passengers by enacting meaningful consumer protections.
How to make United Airlines keep its promises
You could almost hear a collective groan from the traveling public last week when United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz promised a congressional hearing that his airline would “do better” in the wake of the David Dao dragging incident.
Better than what, exactly?
Trouble on the road? Maybe the government can help (seriously)
Trouble on the road? Maybe the government can help. He did a double take when he saw the name on his airline ticket: “Donald Jeffries.”
Look out! Here comes the airfare transparency bill war
Will the real airfare transparency bill please stand up? Passengers may be forgiven for asking that question last week.
The TSA as we know it is dead — here’s why
The TSA is doomed. You’ll have to at least agree that the agency as we know can’t continue to exist as it does.
Has the TSA become its own worst enemy?
You don’t have to read the 59-page congressional report on the Transportation Security Administration’s shortcomings, released on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, to conclude the agency has “become its own worst enemy.”
