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...flying to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from Newark, N.J., next month, and you've nailed a $191 plus tax round-trip flight on Continental. Sweet. If you're traveling solo and light, a carry-on will do the trick. But if you're not, once you check in a bag, you are adding 13% to the ticket cost; 31% if you add a second bag. If you can't use a carry-on, you essentially become the victim of a bait and switch tactic, since the airlines never name their baggage fees in the fare quotes you get on Travelocity, Expedia...
...first 12 passengers to board. The airlines board people either by rows, back-to-front or according to an algorithm that is devised to spread people and their stuff around the plane in an orderly manner. Except that an algorithm has never rushed the gate the moment a flight is called, because if it were to, I'd throw an elbow. Whatever the sequence, loading the overhead bins on a fully booked airliner is like trying to pull one of your socks over your head while someone else whacks you with a sack of flour...
Presumably, the airlines don't mind because the change means they need fewer ramp personnel, and now they get paid every time they do handle your bag. In reality, it's the airline flight crews who are now doing the baggage handling, for no extra wages - and don't they enjoy it. (See 10 things you didn't know about money...
JANET NAPOLITANO, Homeland Security Secretary, defending the department in the wake of a failed terrorist attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight on Dec. 25. Napolitano later said screening measures did not work "in this instance...
...report notes "delayed dissemination of a finished intelligence report" that might have prevented the attack but again does not attribute the failure to any person or agency. (Read "The Flight 253 Foul-Up: Was Too Much Intelligence to Blame...