The recession has been brutal for many businesses but the airline industry has suffered dramatically from soft ticket demand and unpredictable gas prices. Considering the dire straits that many of the world’s most prominent airlines are facing, a federal bailout for the airline industry may not be too far in the future.
 
Airlines typically look forward to the second quarter as a time of the year when travelers most frequently travel by airplane to get to their exotic vacation destinations. However, this year’s outcome has been very disappointing for the airline industry, as the recession, combined with a global swine flu …read more

Not sure how this happens, but according to the Economist the slide in the airlines’ fortunes has not yet affected Boeing and Airbus. I guess that’s where all of those new fees are going.

As most of you probably know, the EU recently moved to permit cell phone use on flights within European airspace. This post from FlyAwayCafe discusses a bill recently introduced in Congress which would ensure that the US does not follow suit.
I can only applaud this – those of us who travel in trains are already bombarded with the incessant chatter of the woman who simply can’t resist telling Aunt Bertha about the fungus growing underneath her toenail, the aggressive salesman telling how he pawned off a mediocre product on an unsuspecting customer, or even the attorney who relentlessly waives …read more