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Comment by Ed Wetschler on June 29, 2010 at 11:58am

Thank you, Embraer. The company has designed a plane that doesn't have room for a (costly) co-pilot. If JetBlue buys those planes, will you fly JetBlue?

Comment by Ed Wetschler on June 28, 2010 at 8:24am

"A whopping 93 percent of the total 3197 respondents to an eTurboNews poll claim that airlines are under-performing in terms of customer service." Can the airlines, in fact, restore good service (when I was a kid it was great service) without increasing fares?

Comment by Vincent Russo on June 24, 2010 at 9:19am

I just joined to let off steam. my favorite cousin just called to say virgin atlantic is going to install great new entertaiment internet system. she's steamed cause her husband was one of the people trapped on that plane in Conneticut. Shouldn't company should be working on getting takeoff and landing right, not this other stuff?

Comment by Cessy Meacham on June 16, 2010 at 4:41pm

Can anybody give me a feed back using GOL Airlines in Brazil?

Comment by José Balido on June 14, 2010 at 11:46am

In the news today: Allergy risk may force airlines to ban peanuts. We must of course prevent passengers with severe allergies from going into anaphylactic shock in midflight, but is there a better solution?

Comment by Tripatini on June 14, 2010 at 10:10am

Find out how new search engine InsideTrip.com adds a new dimension to airfare searches, now on our member blogs.

Comment by David Paul Appell on June 12, 2010 at 10:03am

Very good point, Charlie. You might want to post this on our Media Only group, too. And kudos to you for everything you do out there.

Comment by Charlie Leocha on June 12, 2010 at 9:49am

Greetings Group,
On Thursday, June 17th, I will be testifying before the Senate Commerce regarding the Continental/United merger. As a consumer, I feel that reducing our network carriers effectively to three carriers is asking for the disappearance of competition. Domestically there will be Delta, United and American with more than 50% of the traffic and internationally, the alliances will control 85% of the traffic. A consumer nightmare and another industry with members "too big to fail."

I am also working like mad speaking with staffers to mandate that airlines report their fees to central reservation systems at the same time they announce airfares. This way the online systems can figure out a way to allow consumers to compare total air transportation cost. Airfares and beginning to mean less and less with penny airfares already showing up on Spirit.

Please, all of you writers, take a look at this portion of the FAA reauthorization. We need articles stating that consumers should know the total costs for air travel including airline fees as they do their travel planning, not only at the time of purchase.

If you want to talk about it, send email to me at leocha@consumertravelalliance.org.

Thanks for your help.

Comment by José Balido on June 12, 2010 at 8:58am

Video surveillance on airplanes: a step too far?

eTN reported yesterday that "Information received from Lufthansa sources speaks of the development of a new surveillance system in commercial aircraft, developed by Lufthansa Technik, which is part of the Lufthansa Group. The new system will become available on the market in early 2011..."

How do you feel about having your every move watched and recorded while you're on a plane? Is it a justifiable invasion of privacy in the name of more security? Or is it yet another invasion of privacy with dubious benefits?

Comment by José Balido on June 9, 2010 at 9:07am

Ten Things Airport Baggage Handlers Will Not Say: read it and cringe!

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