Consumer Reports Travel Letter 1998 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
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 leisure | Berger, Laurie |
Big-airline alliances: plus or monopoly threat? (airlines' plans to share customer services)(Editorial) | Travel, recreation and leisure | Perkins, 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 leisure | Perkins, 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 leisure | Berger, 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 leisure | Berger, 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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