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...apiece, if passengers register bags at the airport rather than paying for them in advance when buying their ticket. According to Ryanair's website, that fee is set to increase by 40% in September to $13.20 per bag, so the company will benefit handsomely from the new, tougher checked baggage rules. For O'Leary, it seems, every airport crowd has a silver lining...
...over the national minimum thresholds for inheritance tax, which haven't been adjusted in step with the housing boom. The result: almost anyone owning a detached house in London or southeast England is already well over the U.K. tax-free limit on estates of $540,000. France is even tougher. There, inheritance tax is levied in theory from the first euro passed on, but a series of tax-free thresholds apply to family members, including a €50,000 one for children of the deceased. The value of even a modest two-bedroom apartment in central Paris is enough...
...Group's chief executive officer, also notes that 40% of pickup trucks are sold via big discounts."You can still move the market with incentives. We've protected our share but its become more expensive,"LaSorda says. In addition, the competition in the segment is also about to get tougher as GM launches a new truck this fall and Toyota puts its new truck in showroom floors in January, LaSorda says...
...That poses a problem for business travelers on short trips who prefer not to check bags. Standard & Poor's Baggaley talks about a "hassle factor" and says the tougher security "is likely to divert at least a small amount of business travelers." Any such defections would hurt airlines just as they have been returning to better financial shape, including U.S. carriers such as Delta, which is currently in bankruptcy but reported stronger operating margins in the second quarter. Airports are facing potentially even tougher problems. Baggage handling systems are nearly overloaded in many airports, as the number of checked bags...
...meeting Franco Frattini, vice president of the European Commission on Liberty, Justice and Security, mapped out the enhanced practical measures that E.U. leaders will announce in a formal plan over the next few days. They include extending existing research on explosives (particularly liquid explosives), a tougher crackdown on inflammatory websites or those that detail bomb-making expertise, and encouraging security officials to share biometric data of suspected persons more often and more rapidly...