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

Smart Meetings

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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IATA: Court decision to halt Schiphol Airport flight cuts is ‘reprieve’ for passengers, airlines, and the Dutch economy

Travel Daily News

THE HAGUE – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reacted positively to the decision by the Dutch court to uphold the legal challenges lodged by IATA, KLM and other airlines against the Dutch government’s ‘experimental regulation’ to cut Schiphol airport ’s flight limit to 460,000 from November 2023.

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What Does the JetBlue-Spirit Airlines Merger Mean for Meetings?

MeetingsNet

If the two airlines combine operations under one flag as anticipated, there’s likely to be winners and losers among cities popular for business events. billion deal would create the nations’ fifth largest airline, joining American, Delta, United, and Southwest at the top. “We airline market.

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

Business Traveler USA

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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Flight Delays: “Passengers Should Not Foot the Bill,” Buttigieg Says

MeetingsNet

In the EU, airlines have been required to pay cash compensation to passengers for flight delays for almost two decades. On May 8, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the start of a rule-making process to require airlines to compensate travelers when they are stranded for reasons within the airline’s control.

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FAA Wants Police to Take Action Against Unruly Passengers

Business Traveler USA

The Federal Aviation Administration is urging local law enforcement to file charges more often against unruly airline passengers. 1, airlines have reported 3,715 incidents involving unruly passengers. The majority of the disputes come from travelers refusing to wear federally mandated face masks on airline flights.

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Dynamic Pricing Strategy for Airlines: Exploring Current Problems and Adopting Continuous Pricing

AltexSoft Travel

In the 1980s, American Airlines and its former president Robert Crandall started a revolution in airline pricing. Crandall is famous for many airline innovations that we use today, such as inventing the first frequent flier program and contributing to route optimization and central reservation system adoption.