The average price of an airline ticket purchased from our agency has not risen in the first four months of 2012: 2011 Average Price: $570 2012 Average Price: $562 Read More »

Since the United/Continental reservation system transition March 3, most things have gone fairly well. Today, however, we are disappointed to share a new problem that has been giving some travelers real trouble. Read More »

The lead article in this week's edition of Airline Weekly was on the new United/Continental Airlines. The article went into great depth discussing the positives and negatives of the world's largest airline. The positives were many and the negatives few. Here are some of both: Read More »

Business Travel News has rated Delta as the top airline. BTN surveyed over 400 corporations that spend over $500,000 per year on air travel. United/Continental was rated second. USAir was third. American was fourth.

Southwest was rated last in this survey. The reason for Southwest’s poor showing is probably directly related to the respondents of the survey. Read More »

Polk Majestic Travel Group co-owner and CEO Robert Polk submitted the following guest column.

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The Clear Program is planning to start once again in Denver. A New York company named Alclear LLC says it will honor all members of the old Clear Program. It is estimated the old Clear Program had 22,000 members in Denver. If you had nine months left on your Clear card the new company will allow you to have nine months left on their program.

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We hosted two panel discussions last week related to traveler safety and security. Please find below some of the highlights of last Thursday's get together:

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Mergers in the Air...

Goodness, gracious! We have a lot to talk about this week. United and US Airways have announced they are in serious merger discussions. I honestly think my chances of winning the Masters are greater than the chances of this merger actually happening. The list of reasons why United and US Air cannot pull off this merger is longer than my arm, and I have long arms: Read More »

What do you think of the new Southwest TV ads with ramp workers taking off their shirts and exposing their painted chests spelling out "Bags Fly Free"? I bet you can guess that I think they are just terrible. There must be a more creative way of telling the world that Bags Fly Free on Southwest Airlines. All I could think of when I saw the ad was the movie "Braveheart" when the Scots lifted their kilts to show the British what they thought of British rule. In years past I have always liked South Read More »

The rental car companies are in a big hurry to start charging you for no shows. The no show rate on rental cars is now approaching 25 percent. We have heard of travelers that make several car reservations with several different car companies and then rent from the company that has the first shuttle bus to appear.

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