Consumer Traveler Today: April 27

Consumer Traveler Today: Airlines dismember airfares, airports and our air traffic control system
 
 
Airlines dismember airfares, airports and our air traffic control system
What we’re reading: New instrument displays improve aviation safety, Juneau gets ADS-B, FAA wants no pilot distractions
New iris scanning system scans 30 passengers per minute at a distance
Hertz buys Dollar/Thrifty rent-a-car
To go or not to go? What conditions are cause for canceling a vacation?
Airlines dismember airfares, airports and our air traffic control system
Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:10 AM PDT
During the past two years, we passengers have been listening to the airlines tell us they are "unbundling" airfares piece by piece. I've been listening and have been appalled at their logic. When you take something that is "airfare" and unbundle it, logically its separate parts are still all pieces of the original "airfare."
       

What we’re reading: New instrument displays improve aviation safety, Juneau gets ADS-B, FAA wants no pilot distractions
Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:00 AM PDT
Heads-up display may improve aviation safety, Juneau gets ADS-B, FAA wants no pilot distractions
       

New iris scanning system scans 30 passengers per minute at a distance
Posted: 26 Apr 2010 08:30 AM PDT
Sarnoff Corporation has developed a new iris scanning system that allows passengers to be scanned with only a glance, from a distance.
       

Hertz buys Dollar/Thrifty rent-a-car
Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:30 AM PDT
In a blockbuster deal that is sure to have significant effects on the consumer rental car market, Hertz has bought Dollar/Thrifty in a $1.2 billion takeover. Hertz will regain its title as the largest rental car firm with this buyout.
       

To go or not to go? What conditions are cause for canceling a vacation?
Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:30 AM PDT
Now that the European travel system is getting back to normal after the volcano, the clean up begins, and for many future travelers, the decision making — to go or not to go.