Consumer Traveler Today: March 18

Consumer Traveler Today: Do airline customers have a right to know taxes and fees before buying their ticket?
 
 
Do airline customers have a right to know taxes and fees before buying their ticket?
What we’re reading: Sun Country plans London flights, Air Berlin cancels 787 order, airlines seek JFK exemption
A picture is worth a thousand words — if you’re renting a car, make that $1,444.61
Does size really matter? Is the Oasis TBTS (Too Big To Sail)?
Do airline customers have a right to know taxes and fees before buying their ticket?
Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:55 AM PDT
After a long day of negotiations between Senate aides and committee staffers over wording regarding when passengers will get to know what taxes and fees will be added to their airfares, there was no final agreement. That means the Menendez amendment to the FAA Reauthorization bill will come up for a vote sometime today, and the fate of how we purchase airline tickets and view airfares will hang in balance.
       

What we’re reading: Sun Country plans London flights, Air Berlin cancels 787 order, airlines seek JFK exemption
Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:18 AM PDT
Sun Country is looking at flights between Minneapolis and Stansted Airport in London, Air Berlin cancels a portion of their Boeing 787 orders, airlines look for tarmac-delay exemptions at JFK rather than cut schedules
       

A picture is worth a thousand words — if you’re renting a car, make that $1,444.61
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 08:30 AM PDT
What happens when you get a damage claim from the rental car company a year after the rental? Can you fight it? Do you have a prayer?
       

Does size really matter? Is the Oasis TBTS (Too Big To Sail)?
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 07:30 AM PDT
Laura asks whether the Oasis of the Seas is too big? Is it an island or a cruise ship? Do more options and passengers actually make the cruise experiences better? Or just different.