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First-Bag Fee Immunity Adds Value For Frequent Flyers (Business Travel News)
JUNE 30, 2008 -- Corporate travel buyers used to consider elite status in airline frequent flyer programs a soft dollar benefit, but as American Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways now shield their most frequent travelers from fees to check their first piece of luggage, such negotiated deal sweeteners are proving to have hard dollar value.
'Sama Airlines' supports the summer holiday season with more new initiatives (AME Info)
Sama Airlines; the newest airlines in Saudi Arabia; announced the new initiatives in airports and inside the aircraft to simplify a quick check - in process for passengers without luggage, and to give the priority boarding to families with children and old people.
Skycaps too are feeling the effects of the airline crunch (Chicago Tribune)
At LAX and elsewhere, workers who check in luggage for travelers have seen their incomes fall by as much as 50% in the last several years. 'People aren't as happy at work,' one said. Not long ago, being a skycap at busy Los Angeles International Airport was a coveted blue-collar job that brought the trappings of middle-class life.
High on the View as Much as the Cocktails (New York Times)
Salon de Ning at the Peninsula Hotel. WHO cares if a bar has an upscale hotel attached to it? Unless you've got big bucks, you're not staying there anyway. You don't have any luggage for others to lug. And who needs an ice machine when you've got a bartender?
Memphis airport strives for calmer checkpoints (The Jackson Sun)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — It's hard not to get stressed out at airport checkpoints as travelers rush to get through with the correct carryon luggage and personal identification.
Kristen Bell's Lost Luggage Solution in N.Y.C.: New Dresses! (People Magazine)
• Kristen Bell, finding a wardrobe replacement for her missing luggage at the Jill Stuart boutique in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. The actress, whose bags were misplaced en route to New York, loaded up on chic dresses and summer essentials at the store, a source says. Bell had been on location in Rome filming her appropriately titled comedy, When In Rome.
ZIMBABWE: 'Can I give you some Harare luggage for your US dollars?' (AlertNet)
Source: IRIN The flower seller booths on Unity Square in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, are now the haunt of money changers, because this is one of the few commercial activities in the country still experiencing any kind of growth.
Bags intact, goods gone (The Telegraph)
Gadgets and clothes were missing from the registered luggage of three passengers who flew to Calcutta, though the locks were intact. Two of them lodged complaints with Air India Express on Thursday.
Saturday, July 5, 2008 (Deccan Herald)
With luggage as fancy as it gets who cares about what is in it? It is time to grab the eyeballs with what is trailing behind you or what is hanging from the shoulder, writes Jayanthi Madhukar.
Amsterdam airport trials self-service baggage check (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Passengers departing from Amsterdam airport can now cut waiting times and minimize human contact by using a machine to check in their luggage.
