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E L L I O T T' S TRAVEL NOTES
Travel news, opinion and analysis

April 9, 2004

Gas Prices Will Continue to Rise
Motorists fuming over rising gasoline prices won't get a break anytime soon. Prices nationwide will average $1.76 per gallon during the April-to-September peak driving season, the Energy Department predicted Thursday. That's a record for that period, and is 20 cents more than last year's previous high. Motorists can expect the worst of the seasonal pump-price increases in May, when gas will average $1.82 cents per gallon nationwide, said Guy Caruso, who heads the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration, which forecasts energy supplies and prices. Prices are expected to fall to an average of $1.72 per gallon from July to September. High crude-oil costs, low gasoline inventories and new requirements for clean-burning fuel already have increased retail gas prices sharply. The national average is $1.78. Miami Herald | Posted 6 a.m.
<-- PB Post: Another opportunity to strangle Big Six
-- Florida Today: Look for Memorial Day peak

• What many American travelers don't realize is that we have some of the cheapest fuel prices in the world - even with the recent uptick. Send us your comments.

Mineta Says 'No' to Airline Competition
U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta renewed Washington's opposition to opening up the U.S. domestic market to European carriers - a key demand of the European Union for sealing an "open skies" civil aviation deal. After meeting with EU Transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio, Mineta said he told her that allowing foreign carriers to fly between U.S. cities - in direct competition with U.S. airlines - was not going to fly. "It's a nonnegotiable item," Mineta said in a telephone interview ahead of a speech at the European Parliament. "It is something that Congress just will resist." Despite the stalemate, Mineta expressed confidence that U.S. and EU negotiators would be able to wrap up a "first phase" aviation agreement in time for President Bush to sign it during a June 26 stopover in Dublin, Ireland. AP | Posted 6:20 a.m.
-- Reuters: US puts pressure on Europe for airline deal

Secret to JetBlue's Success? People
David Neeleman found himself with $25 million, but no job. When his wife said, "Great, now you can help me drive car pools, run errands and raise our nine children," panic set in. Eventually that panic evolved into plans for a new airline, Jet Blue. Now, four years old and two years past its initial public offering, that airline is winning awards from travelers almost as fast as it can fly them. It has a $600 million cushion in the bank, and its passenger-miles for March were up about 36.6 percent over the same month last year. It flies 246 flights a day to 24 cities in a fleet of new Airbus A320s. Westport Minuteman | Posted 6:30 a.m.

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• And finally ... I'm on assignment in Alaska for the next week. I know many of you click on this blog every morning to get the latest travel news, and I'll try to update this blog as frequently as possible. Posted 6:45 a.m. | Send us your comments.

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