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• Boston air/hotel, 2 nights, from $239
Your Boston escape includes round-trip airfare on a JetBlue carrier and two nights' accommodations at the Boston Marriott Quincy Hotel in historic Quincy. The fine print: Hotel taxes are included, but airfare fees are an additional $21 per person ...
• GPS could save airlines billions in fuel costs
CHICAGO - A World War II-era air traffic network that often forces planes to take longer, zigzagging routes is costing U.S. airlines billions of dollars in wasted fuel while an upgrade to a satellite-based system has languished in the planning stages ...
• CONTINUED : High cost of upgrading
Rory Kay of the Air Line Pilots Association said the improved technology could also help relieve pilot fatigue by cutting the time planes wait on the ground. Passenger groups generally support the project, even though they expect airlines to pass some ...
• Falling gas prices may lure travelers off planes
... departure from a long-held public perception that flying — while increasingly expensive — still makes sense because the cost of driving is almost as bad and driving takes longer. But with gas prices down more than 15 percent since July and air ...
• 1 dead, 1 hurt after balloon hits power lines
BARNALILLO, N.M. - A hot air balloon crashed into power lines and burst into flames Friday during Albuquerque’s annual balloon fiesta, throwing both men on board to the ground and killing one of them. An 11-year-old boy was injured in a separate ...