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L L I O T T' S TRAVEL
NOTES
Travel news, opinion and analysis
February 17, 2004
Don't
Let the Bedbugs Bite
Anyone who's traveled
lately has heard the coughing, sneezing and wheezing of fellow
passengers suffering from the flu or a cold. But there's another bug to
watch out for -- the bedbug. Yes, bedbugs are making a comeback
in hotels, according to experts. No, these are not lice, fleas or scabies.
These are those old bugs from medieval times that likely spawned
the phrase "sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite."
CNN | Posted 6 a.m.
-- US
News: It's all about the bed
• That's not all hotel guests have to worry about. As I noted in a recent NPR story, hotel surcharges are also an issue. Send us your comments.
No-Frills
Troubles? Told You So
Last July, when
virtually the entire aviation media was reporting how low-cost carriers
were the wonder of the world, aviation industry gadfly Michael
Boyd predicted that one or two less-than-glowing financial reports from
an low-cost airline would lead to a quick 180 in how they were viewed
in mainline media stories. He predicted that some headline like, "Turbulence
In The Low Fare Skies" was only a matter of time. Bingo. Last Friday
in the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Section, page 1, below the fold:
"Trouble In Low Fare Land." Close enough. ASRC
| Posted 6:15 a.m.
-- Newsday:
JetBlue, not so high-flying
Group
Calls for TSA Breakup
"Has the time come for the country to start slicing up the Transportation
Security Administration (TSA) in the interests of national security
and the safety of airline pilots, crews, and passengers?" asks John Michael
Snyder, public affairs director of the Citizens Committee for the Right
to Keep and Bear Arms. The TSA, Snyder continues, "has been dragging
its feet for so hard and so long in implementing a national mandate
for the arming of airline pilots that one cannot help but think that the
interests of the nation would be better served if this responsibility
is taken out of the hands of the agency." BW | Posted
6:20 a.m.
<--
Register:
Screening program draws criticism
<-- Elliott.org:
Arming pilots is a bad idea
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• And finally ... What's going to happen to the American Airlines pilot who last week talked religion on the PA? Don't look now, but the buzz on the bulletin boards is that he'll be terminated. That's too bad, because I thought we still had something called freedom of religion in the U.S. Guess I was wrong. Posted 6:30 a.m. | Send us your comments.
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