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Articles Of Interest

How to Correctly Sign Your Passport

TSA Says It's Making Airport Screening More 'Private'

Delta Starts Tracking Bags

Coast Through Customs

O'Hare Customers Will Benefit From Updated Technology, Facilities

Delta Launches Nonstop Service Between Detroit And Beijing

Delta Air Lines Completes Full Flat-bed Installations On Boeing 777, 767-400 Aircraft

Hotel Guests Ok With Costs, Less So With Service

Enterprise
On-Airport At Reagan National Airport

The Real Reason Airlines Use The Annoying Zone Boarding System

What To Do About Overhead Bin Hogs

 

How to Correctly Sign Your Passport
It is very important that you sign your passport to avoid complications or delays with document processing and international travel. Each day our processing offices receive numerous unsigned passports which ultimately must be returned back to travelers for their signatures. In some cases, this will not only result in additional shipping costs, but could potentially cost the traveler a trip. Click Here to continue.

TSA Says It's Making Airport Screening More 'Private'
Source: USA Today
The Transportation Security Administration said that it has begun installing software to give passengers more privacy when they're screened by some of the full-body scanning machines at airport checkpoints. Click Here to continue. 

Airline News

Delta Starts Tracking Bags
Source: New York Times
Delta Airlines has begun a system that allows its passengers to track their bags after they’ve been checked in, the carrier announced recently.

The bag tracking system works in a similar fashion to that of a delivery company: users simply enter a last name and the baggage tracking number and then are told whether their luggage has been loaded on the aircraft, is in a claim area or is in a different location. Delta is the first major domestic carrier to offer such a service. Click Here to continue.

Coast Through Customs
A new international arrivals area has opened in LAX Terminal 5
Source: Delta
A new international arrivals area has opened in Delta Air Lines Terminal 5 at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), which will greatly improve and simplify your travel experience when flying internationally. Click Here to continue.

O'Hare Customers Will Benefit From Updated Technology, Facilities Source: Delta
Delta has completed facilities upgrades at Chicago-O’Hare that will mean an easier travel experience for customers traveling through the city’s largest airport. Click Here to continue.

Delta Launches Nonstop Service Between Detroit And Beijing
Source: Delta
Delta began nonstop service between Detroit and Beijing on July 1, expanding its Asian gateway in Detroit with flights to a third city in China. The flight will operate five days each week on 269-seat Boeing 777 aircraft featuring full flat-bed seats in BusinessElite, as well as Delta's new Economy Comfort class, which offers additional legroom and early boarding. Click Here to continue.

Delta Air Lines Completes Full Flat-bed Installations On Boeing 777, 767-400 Aircraft
Source: Delta
Delta has completed the installation of full flat-bed seats in the BusinessElite cabin of all Boeing 777 and 767-400ER type aircraft. The last of 18 Boeing 777 aircraft, each with 45 BusinessElite seats per plane, and all 21 Boeing 767-400ER aircraft with 40 BusinessElite seats per plane have been retrofitted with full flat-bed seats. Each seat includes direct aisle access. Click Here to continue.

 
Hotel News

Hotel Guests Ok With Costs, Less So With Service
Source: MSNBC
If you’ve found yourself unhappy about the service and amenities at a hotel recently, you’re not alone. According to the just-released J.D. Power and Associates 2011 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study, hotel guests are more upset about their hotel experiences than the costs and fees they encounter along the way. Click Here to continue.

Car News

Enterprise On-Airport At Reagan National Airport
Source: Enterprise
Enterprise opened an onsite branch at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., last month after previously operating an off-site location. Enterprise rental counters are located on the 1st Floor of Parking Garage A. To go to the rental car concessions from the terminals, customers board the “Parking / Rental Car” shuttle which stops at each terminal outside baggage claim.

Did You Know?

The Real Reason Airlines Use The Annoying Zone Boarding System
Source: Travel Insider
If you've ever flown coach, then you know the feeling of standing in a mob of Zone 4 ticket holders while the flight attendant repeats for the tenth time: "Now boarding all passengers in Zone 1." Click Here to continue.

What To Do About Overhead Bin Hogs
Source: MSNBC
We’ve all seen them on airplanes: Fellow passengers who put their stuff in an overhead bin toward the front of the plane before sneaking off to an assigned seat way in the back.

When that happens, some passengers seated up front end up having to store their bags in the rear of the plane. Click Here to continue.

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