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TWT: Canada’s Covid Veil Lifts, Biden Asks Airlines for Fee Transparency

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Biden Wants an End to Hidden Airline Fees. President Biden announced a bid this week to end hidden airline fees. In response to the proposed rule, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said, “Airline passengers deserve to know the full, true cost of their flights before they buy a ticket.

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This Week in Travel: What Will Frontier-Spirit Airline Merger Mean for Future of Budget Travel?

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This week, Frontier and Spirit Airlines announced a proposed merger, which would make the new airline the fifth largest in the United States. On a call announcing the deal on Monday, Spirit’s CEO Ted Christie touted both airlines’ “commitment to affordable travel.”. And there is a place for such an airline.

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This Week in Travel: Relaxed Mask Mandates, Alaska Airlines Debuts Subscription-Based Flight Pass

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Read More : This Week in Travel: What Will Frontier-Spirit Airline Merger Mean for Future of Budget Travel? Alaska Airlines Debuts Subscription-Based Flight Pass. Read More : Alaska Airlines Wins First in Wallethub’s Newest Ranking. That’s what merging airlines have always claimed. said Walsh.

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Department of Transportation Proposes New Rules on Flight Credits and Refunds

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Southwest Airlines made headlines this week when it became the first airline to eliminate expiration dates for flight credits. In a move signaling how the change may affect the airline industry, the US Department of Transportation has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would cover airline ticket refunds.

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Southwest Commits to Groups with Simplified Booking, Investment in Routes and People

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One of the announcements at IMEX that may have flown under the radar but could help streamline business travel in the future was Southwest Airlines’ Business Assist Portal. The new portal allows for easy research, real-time quotes, automated proposals and tracking in one place. Click on the four pictures below to learn what they are!

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DOT Proposes Rules to Refund Fees for Delayed Bags

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The Department of Transportation has proposed new rules that would require airlines to refund baggage fees when checked bags are ‘significantly’ delayed. Under the proposed rule, that would mean a bag not delivered to the passenger within 12 hours for domestic itineraries and within 25 hours for international itineraries.

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Delta Urges Other Airlines to Share ‘No-Fly’ Lists

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With a troubling number of incidents involving unruly passenger behavior aboard US airlines and at airports, carriers have banned hundreds of passengers since the start of the pandemic. Now the airline wants other airlines to share their lists well, in a bid to create a national database of banned travelers. “A

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