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Consumer Traveler Today: April 8

04-08-2011

 

Consumer Traveler Today: Weekend survey: Do maintenance problems make you reluctant to fly? 
 

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Weekend survey: Do maintenance problems make you reluctant to fly?

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 05:50 AM PDT

Do Southwest Airlines' recent maintenance problems, which led to widespread aircraft inspections, make you think twice about flying?
        
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The Travel Troubleshooter: An unmarried driver fee? How enterprising

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 05:08 AM PDT

The extra-driver fee is, in my opinion, nothing more than a money grab. It doesn’t make any sense, either. By Enterprise’s logic, a married couple or a same-sex couple is less of a risk to a rental car than an opposite-sex couple, or just two friends. I haven’t seen any evidence that married couples are any less likely to total a car than unmarried couples.