Consumer Traveler Today: Nov 11

_____________________________________ • Avis may try harder to stop free rides for indecisive car renters • What we’re reading: Visitors return to Vegas but spend less, United cuts 50-seat CRJs, United suspends drunk pilot • TSA is secretly watching you • 5 tongue-in-cheek fees the travel industry might consider Avis may try harder to stop free rides for indecisive car renters Posted: 11 Nov 2009 02:52 AM PST These days, unless you want to pay big bucks, there are very few flexible airfares. And hotels are routinely moving their cancellation deadlines to 24 or 48 hours in advance to avoid billing. What we’re reading: Visitors return to Vegas but spend less, United cuts 50-seat CRJs, United suspends drunk pilot Posted: 11 Nov 2009 02:47 AM PST More and more people are coming to Las Vegas because of reduced room rates, but they are spending a lot less. TSA is secretly watching you Posted: 10 Nov 2009 07:45 AM PST Our only concerns with peeping TSA folk are not at the full-body screening machines, they are also with secret personnel whose job it is to simply sit and watch passengers. These detection officers have the power to command that passengers go through additional screening just because they don't like the way the travelers are acting. 5 tongue-in-cheek fees the travel industry might consider Posted: 10 Nov 2009 06:15 AM PST As the travel industry keeps coming up with new and creative ways to separate passengers from extra dollars, one of the airline industry's ideas — priority boarding — has been taken over by an unlikely competitor, Greyhound.
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