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New Border-Crossing Rules Start Jan. 31
New FAA Regulation on Spare Lithium Batteries
Airport Wi-Fi: Denver's going free
What Fliers Can Expect -- Good and Bad -- in
'08
Atlanta airport remains busiest in U.S. for
third straight year
8 things travelers should expect in 2008
The Airport Security Follies
Airline passenger rights movement taking off
U.S. Fliers May Face Separate Fees For Jet
Fuel
Travel IQ Challenge
New
Border-Crossing Rules Start Jan. 31
Starting Jan. 31, all
U.S. citizens and citizens of neighboring countries, including
Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, will be required to show proof of
citizenship or other government-issued identification to enter or
leave the U.S. by sea or land. (ABC News/Associated Press)
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New FAA
Regulation on Spare Lithium Batteries
US DOT Hazmat Safety Rule to Place Limits on Lithium Batteries
Carried by Passengers Aboard Aircraft Effective January 1, 2008.
(DOT.gov)
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Airport Wi-Fi: Denver's
going free
Denver International is changing its ways. No longer will you have
to park yourself outside the Presidents Club because the airport has
just opened up its wireless network to everyone, in all terminals.
(Jaunted)
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What
Fliers Can Expect -- Good and Bad -- in '08
After a year filled with extreme delays, stranded
passengers and plenty of airline and security woes, travel in 2008
promises to have a few more bright spots -- but plenty of
turbulence, too
(The Wall Street Journal)
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Atlanta airport remains busiest in U.S. for third straight year
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport again claimed the
title of the busiest U.S. airport based on the total number of
flights, government statistics show. The airport logged 994,466
takeoffs and departures in 2007. Chicago O'Hare International
Airport was the second-busiest airport, with 935,000 total flights
last year. (The Wall Street Journal/Associated Press)
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8 things
travelers should expect in 2008
Travelers deserve a break in ’08. Too bad they won’t get one. No
reasonable traveler, travel expert, or wannabe-traveler can look at
the wearisome events of 2007 and say, “No worries, 2008 will be
great.” It’s impossible. (MSNBC.com)
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The Airport Security Follies
Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, airport security
remains a theater of the absurd. The changes put in place following
the September 11th catastrophe have been drastic, and largely of two
kinds: those practical and effective, and those irrational, wasteful
and pointless. (The New York Times)
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Airline
passenger rights movement taking off
If you're still fuming from being confined in an airplane sitting on
the tarmac last year, as many thousands of passengers were, some
relief may be at hand. Maybe even some revenge.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
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U.S.
Fliers May Face Separate Fees For Jet Fuel
U.S. airlines may start charging passengers
separately for jet fuel as oil prices inch past $100 per barrel.
(The New York Times)
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Travel IQ Challenge
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Travel IQ Challenge.
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