Consumer Reports Travel Letter 1998 - Abstracts

Consumer Reports Travel Letter 1998
TitleSubjectAuthors
Airfares by Internet.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Airlines behaving badly: the code-sharing threat.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Alliances rewrite rules of frequent-flier game: confusion sets in as airlines merge programs.(airlines combine programs and become members of global consortia; includes related information on Northwest, United, American and TWA offers )Travel, recreation and leisure 
A monthly car rental? The long and short of it. (includes related information)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Are you ready for the Euro? Europe on the eve of single currency.(includes names of 11 members of the European Monetary Union and schedule of introduction of universal currency for EMU)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Best Asian bargains: with deals like these, you can't afford to stay home.(includes related article)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Best bargain for fall: 17 Asian cities for $999.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Beyond bait-and-switch.(ticketing practices of airlines)(Editorial)Travel, recreation and leisureBerger, Laurie
Big-airline alliances: plus or monopoly threat? (airlines' plans to share customer services)(Editorial)Travel, recreation and leisurePerkins, Ed
Big alliances promise nothing but trouble for consumers.(includes related analysis of the merger between Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Brokers for hotel discounts.(includes broker rates chart)(hotel price discounts)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Business class seating: comfortable trip, eye-popping price. (airlines; includes information on international and domestic business seats)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Canada and Mexico by car.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Cheap trips to the sun: avoid winter gouging with cut-rate charters.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Continental targeting back-to-back 'abusers.' (people who obtain two tickets for the same trip)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Coping with travel risks: how to weight - and avoid - the dangers.(includes information of causes of death for Americans traveling abroad and where to get information on travel risks)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Delta devalues senior program: costly 'improvements.'(includes related article)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Elite secret: get to gold after only 8000 miles.(American Airlines frequent flyer program)Travel, recreation and leisure 
European rentals revisited. (car rental prices)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Extended-stay hotels.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Getting to elite - faster than ever. (how to upgrade an airline seat from coach to first class)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Half-price hotels overseas: good deals, spotty coverage. (includes related information)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Hall of fame/hall of shame: some 1997 highs and lows. (for the travel industry)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Hotel chains on the Internet.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Hotel frequent-stay plans: finding your best payoff.Travel, recreation and leisure 
How low can you go? Priceline adds hotel bids.(Priceline's on-line hotel room bidding service joins airline ticket service)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Hubbing takes a drubbing: taming the big airport's hostile environment.(includes related article)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Inclusive vacations: why? Where? How?Travel, recreation and leisure 
Internet gains ground as travel-scam channel. (American Society of Travel Agents conference on travel offer fraud)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Near miss spotlights air-traffic crunch. (airplane safety level)Travel, recreation and leisure 
New discount gambit: bid for your air ticket.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Old planes = bad planes? (comparison between domestic and international airline crash rates for old and new Boeing 727 jets)Travel, recreation and leisure 
One bag or two? Decoding new carry-on rules. (airline travel)Travel, recreation and leisure 
One-way care rentals: how much? (includes information on one-way rental deals and rentals with open-jaw air tickets)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Predatory or just competitive: DOT faces some tough calls. (Department of Transportation)(Editorial)Travel, recreation and leisurePerkins, Ed
Priceline revisited. (web site for purchasing airline tickets)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Renters face bumpy road to rewards. (car rental awards programs)(includes related articles)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Round-the-world airfares: one ticket, many stops.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Second chance: American reopens senior program. (American Airlines)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Senior hotel discounts: going, going...? Not yet. (includes information on discount percentages and senior clubs offering discounts)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Small, low-fare lines help keep fares down. (airlines)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Squeezing the most value from frequent-flier miles.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Summer charters: to the beach or to Europe.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Surviving the stampede.(1998 end of year holiday travel tips)(Editorial)Travel, recreation and leisureBerger, Laurie
The worst seats in the sky...and how to avoid them. (airline seats)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Top hotel picks for winter: Asia, individual hotels, promise best bargains.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Touring Europe by air: deals for North American visitors.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Touring Europe by car: your best bets for 1998.(includes weekly rental price chart, trip pricing and a list of phone numbers for rental companies)(European car rental)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Touring Europe by train: does a pass save money? (includes related travel information)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Tourism and terror. (managing travel to high risk countries)(Editorial)Travel, recreation and leisureBerger, Laurie
Travel 101: dos and don'ts: to save money, avoid grief. (travel tips)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Travel in 1998: the year's best deals.(includes related articles and a list of worst travel buys for 1998)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Travel insurance: cut your risks.(illness and emergency losses)(includes related articles)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Which calling card: don't accept your phone company's card blindly.Travel, recreation and leisure 
'Who-you-are' airfare deals.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Yell 'fore' when you rent a car? (Budget and Hertz offer points toward golf equipment)Travel, recreation and leisure 
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