Consumer Traveler Today: March 15

Consumer Traveler Today: Four hours to nowhere, a half hour to freedom
 
 
Four hours to nowhere, a half hour to freedom
What we’re reading: Danish LCC buys competitor’s seats, BART gets iPhone app, push for Open Skies
Palm Coast Travel fined $2,500 and placed on probation for selling unauthorized travel insurance
Four hours to nowhere, a half hour to freedom
Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:32 AM PDT
Ned Levi discusses his recent Amtrak experience during the nor'easter last weekend, and Amtrak serious problems in how it treats its passengers, and its judgment about it's own ability to quickly repair significant widespread systems and power problems.
       

What we’re reading: Danish LCC buys competitor’s seats, BART gets iPhone app, push for Open Skies
Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:27 AM PDT
Danish low cost carrier buys competitor's seats, BART gets an iPhone app, European and U.S. negotiatiors to push for Open Skies
       

Palm Coast Travel fined $2,500 and placed on probation for selling unauthorized travel insurance
Posted: 14 Mar 2010 07:37 AM PDT
Looks like Palm Coast Travel, the Boca Raton, Fla., agency accused by the state of Florida of selling unauthorized travel insurance, while at the same time trying to sue one of its own customers and me into silence, has quietly negotiated a settlement with insurance regulators.