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It Begins! Airline Competition Investigation Takes Off Ottawa is officially stepping into the role of arbiter of domestic airline competition. The subtext is the dominance of AC & WS and repeated failures of Canadian LCCs. We can only hope many complex factors such as airport fees will be considered. #airlinecompetition #westjet #aircanada #lowcostcarriers #airlinenews #ottawa #government #investigation

Competition is key..

Can the Airlines get to record profits on the backs of luggage charges? Does it seem like it is a cartel? One firm raises bag fees & others follow suit. In case you needed yet another incentive to cram all your travel items into a carry-on, Delta Airlines just boosted the cost of your first checked bag by 17%. The increase adds $5 to the previous, and not-exactly-insignificant, $30 fee for domestic flights. Delta is the third major U.S. carrier to hike bag fees in the past several weeks. Its move follows similar increases that American Airlines and United Airlines announced in February, three days apart; those high fees themselves followed fee hikes by smaller carriers Alaska Airlines and JetBlue Airways. AP #airlines

What are the USA's busiest domestic airline routes this month? - Las Vegas (LAS) to Los Angeles (LAX) has moved up to 1st place with 300,746 seats, an 8% increase in seats per day compared to last month - Los Angeles (LAX) to San Francisco (SFO) has had the biggest increase in seats per day this month compared to last month, adding 10% more, and has moved up 5 places to be the fourth busiest route in the USA with 285,292 seats Read more >> https://hubs.li/Q02K35-w0

It Begins! Airline Competition Investigation Takes Off https://hubs.ly/Q02JJnjm0

Most people are wasting their points. But you don’t have to be one of them. Here's how to make your points worth 2-3x more: 1. Stop transferring all your points to Delta. 2. Stop redeeming directly through the portal. Here’s what you should do: Learn which airlines miles transfer from your credit card. Transfer points strategically to get better value. For example: Transfer your points to Virgin Atlantic for Delta flights, British Airways for American Airlines and Alaskan or Air Canada Aeroplan for United flights. With a little effort, your points can take you further than you think. It's a lot more complex than this but I made a table to help.

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If traffic shifts from Dulles International Airport (IAD) to Reagan National Airport (DCA), airlines would cut international routes, which largely rely on domestic connections for their transfer passengers. It would also discourage airlines from starting new international routes at IAD. Adding flights at DCA would disrupt the carefully designed balance of D.C.’s three-airport system, risking less international flight options for customers in the D.C. air travel market: https://lnkd.in/e-Mmf4MR.

What is RESIDUAL VALUE in an airplane ticket? Residual value is when you cancel your flight and have credit left over to use towards a new flight at a later time (depending on the airline’s policy). The residual value of your ticket is used as a credit given by the airline to use towards the value of the penalty fee or the new cost of the airfare you are exchanging to. https://lnkd.in/d_zpjd_q).