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They did it with Anthony Weiner, Charlie Sheen and Tiger Woods. Now Spirit Airlines is doing it with the New York Knicks’ sudden superstar Jeremy Lin. The budget airline known for using pop culture headlines as inspiration for offbeat — and at times off-color &m …

With apologies to Robert Burns, it’s said that the best laid plans often go awry — and nowhere is that more true than when airlines decide to upgrade or otherwise change their reservation systems. Case in point: Cathay Pacific Airways undertook a so-called “cuto …

Imagine: You've boarded your flight and are comfortable in your seat when you get a good look at, or whiff of, your seatmate coming down the aisle toward you, and you wish you could have simply reserved the entire row to yourself.

Squeezed between travel providers on one side and meta-search sites on the other, it seems online travel agencies (OTAs) have one ace in the hole: Consumers still like using them. That’s the upshot of a new American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) report released on Tues …

A new United Airlines fee set to take effect next month would dramatically increase the cost of shipping a pet home from Japan and surrounding areas to the United States -- to as much as $3,900 for large animals -- and may especially affect members of the military transferred un …

A Frontier Airlines flight from Omaha, Neb., to Milwaukee was delayed Thursday morning after the pilot, suspected of being drunk, was kept from boarding the plane.

Luggage makers always strive to respond to the growing demand from travelers for lighter and tougher suitcases.