Elite Travel Portal » Travel Delays http://elitetravelportal.com Travel Reviews You Can Use Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:27:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Stuck on the tarmac http://elitetravelportal.com/stuck-on-the-tarmac/ http://elitetravelportal.com/stuck-on-the-tarmac/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:45:29 +0000 admin http://elitetravelportal.com/?p=9 Feds to Airlines: Tarmac delays are your problem. I can see how the government doesn’t want to tell the airlines how to run their business. Though I feel sorry for folks who have been stuck on planes for hours on end, I don’t think that legislation is the correct response.

From Random Travel

If the government provides guidelines, and airlines operations don’t take customer service (mercy) into account, then people will vote with their wallets.

In the meantime, the Thanksgiving travel boom is expected to fall 10% from last year.

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In the meantime air asia has ended their fuel surcharge.

TSA creates new “Family Lines”:
Dealing with strollers and medically necessary liquids over 3 oz will get easier.

Low cost airlines, specifically Southwest and Hawaiian rated best in complaints and on-time respectively.

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