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That's just the kind of glowing report that has major airlines fighting for their lives. Low-fare carriers are no longer simply competing on ticket price, they are also raising the bar with the services they offer. While the Big Six airlines (American, Delta, Continental, Northwest, United and US...
The Big Six are desperately trying to adapt to the new rules of the marketplace. They are striving to match the smaller airlines' fares, and American and Delta just started giving away tickets to counter JetBlue's recent expansion. But the most dramatic escalation of the air war is the...
To airlines' chagrin, this hasn't stopped passengers from following Sperry's lascivious lead. Nearly every flight attendant has had to deal with such meetings, says a 15-year veteran stewardess for a large Asian airline. "Usually, the people are drunk," she says. Officially, however, airlines pooh-pooh the topic...
So it's not shocking that the mandate has met with resistance. For some countries, it was one indignity too many in a series of new directives--mandatory finger-printing and photographing of certain passengers entering the U.S. and a ban on congregating in aisles on international flights, even outside...
There are upsides to having protectors in your midst, as passengers on a Northwest Airlines flight from Honolulu to Seattle discovered last month. A man, 29, with a history of assault convictions charged toward the cockpit, shouting that he wanted to see the pilot. He was quickly subdued by undercover...