Air travelers should be aware of all their options before they reach an airport, and that means looking at other airlines and airports, car rentals and even trains.
Taking it out to Denver is a new approach, because it goes into the United system out West ... as opposed to bringing it into O'Hare with short flights.
The bloom is off the rose in many ways. Operationally and financially, they're like anybody else now.
Not only do we have the potential for all these different airline strikes, but we also have the potential for extreme weather like we had last year.
We've had passengers stranded on taxiways for longer than that. I think it's really going to be a session for the secretary to browbeat people and really deflect blame from the Department of Transportation and the FAA.
I think they should really drop the change fee through the end of the year, or really reduce it to something low like $25. Let's say you got a relatively cheap ticket. With $100 on top of it, it's suddenly not much of a deal.
The irritation level is just a lot higher.
There are just so many multiple factors that it's hard to see very far down into the future.
Canceled flights really irritate passengers tremendously, because you're stuck, and you usually can't get out of an airport for a day or more, and so it really disrupts their travel many times more than a delayed flight.
The enemy in this process is us we the passengers have basically sent a signal to the airlines that we only really care about the price of a ticket, that low fare.
