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Do Airline Offset Programs Really Reduce Your Carbon Footprint?

“It’s a really dangerous distraction because it distracts us from analyzing what we can do much more meaningfully,” said Kate Ervine, associate professor of global development studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Although individual activities have environmental costs and flying is one of the most costly, climate change is largely driven by …

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How Rising Fares and Airline Industry Changes Could Affect the Next

Two small American carriers initiated last year, breeze and avelofine-tuning their operations. Departing from Burbank, California, with point-to-point flights on the West Coast, Avelo recently added a new East Coast base to the East Coast. New heaven, Conn., Florida to several destinations and flying as far west as Chicago. In April, the flight schedule changes …

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Legislators Say Spirit-Frontier Merger Could Hurt Airline Competition

A group of progressive lawmakers is asking federal officials to examine the proposed merger of Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines over concerns that the combination could prove anticompetitive and harm customers and workers. Lawmakers — including Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — warn …

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Verizon and AT&T Agree to Postpone 5G Plans Due to Airline Security Concerns

Verizon and AT&T said late Monday that they have agreed to delay their new wireless technology deployments by two weeks, complying with requests from federal aviation regulators. voicing their concerns He said the signals could pose an airline safety hazard. The companies made the decision after initially rejecting a delay request made last week by …

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Omicron Variant Surfaces Amid an Airline Travel Kickback

The discovery of the Omicron variant came at a delicate moment for an airline industry that was just beginning to see a recovery. The question is whether the novel coronavirus variant will deter travelers as the Delta variant did this summer. several nations, including the United Statesbanned visitors from South Africa and a handful of …

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275 Minute Wait: Why Airline Customer Service Isn’t Standing Still?

“If you can’t plan something on your day off, it can get you down,” he said. Edison Fraseris the transportation coordinator of the International Union of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, a union that represents booking agents for Southwest Airlines. Emirates, which employs 1,900 people to handle calls, says the median wait time to find a …

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America and Southwest Post Profits as Airline Industry Recovers

American Airlines and Southwest Airlines reported profits for the three months ending September, reflecting the industry’s recovery despite the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. But airlines haven’t been completely out of the woods: Both could have reported losses had it not been for federal pandemic relief. Still, financial results show the industry …

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Hotel and Airline Reservations for Business Travel Hesitant Continue

“I may be optimistic,” he added, “but I hope that vaccine progress will increase dramatically over the next 60 to 90 days, and that the fourth quarter and early 2022 will still be quite strong.” Mr. Graf is one of the few who believe that mixed professional events involving both face-to-face and virtual participation will …

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