He said the senator still favored the limit, but had not proceeded with legislation because other issues of airline security had taken priority since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Even though they were never required to, airlines used to give stranded passengers vouchers for rooms and meals if a flight was canceled or delayed as a result of mechanical problem or some other issue of an airline's own making, but not for weather-related delays.
Writing about the culture of modern business travel, it's easy to focus on the endless issues of the airline world and forget the fact that most business travel is still done the old- fashioned way, on the ground, on wheels -- by car, if not by railroad.
That's more than double the $128 million that Priceline travel service burned through in its three-year life (excluding $1.1 billion worth of warrants issued to airline partners).
Several issues arise from the proliferation of airline fees, which, I should add, are generally credited with making the difference between a profit and a loss for some airlines.
"This is definitely accumulating," said Rick Seaney, chief executive officer of FareCompare.com, a Web site that tracks the universe of airline fares to issue e-mail alerts to subscribers and to provide real-time and historical data for comparison shopping.
The events of Sept. 11 have inspired some sErious rethinking of a whole range of issues, from airline safety to intelligence gathering.
While his parents slept, Khan gathered three newly issued U.S. passports and $2,600 worth of airline tickets to Turkey that he had gotten for himself, his brother and their 17-year-old sister.
Previously, several works have addressed the issue of optimizing operations of the airline industry.
