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An APA poll a few years back revealed that 80% of Americans expect to be stressed during the holiday season. One source of that stress? The unexpected costs that creep up on us in December. Here are some tips to sidestep some of those pricey problems.

Take me up to the ball game -- thanks to a new offering from broadband provider Row 44, baseball fanatics won't have to miss one tobacco spit or big hit while flying, because Major League Baseball will stream games to airline passengers' WiFi devices.

The skies are anything but friendly for passengers planning to fly Spirit Airlines, as the airline's pilots continue the strike that began June 12. An official in the Spirit pilots unit of the Air Line Pilots Association toldUSA Today that the National Mediation Board will meet with both sides on...

There are about a million (mostly bad) jokes about airline food, but if you're traveling over the next several days you might want to pack a lunch or take your chances on the plane. It turns out the food served in airport eateries and grab-and-go stands are worse than what is served on the plane....

Travelers of the world, we may be witnessing a sort of airline hari kari. The union for cabin crews at British Airways, a carrier that is already tottering toward fiscal disaster, is pressing for 12 days of strikes. That would cripple the airline at a price of $50 million per day. BA, which began...

The authorities that run America's airports don't think you've been nickeled and dimed enough. They're lobbying Congress to hike the "passenger facility charge" from the current $4.50 to $7.50, levied each time you take off from an airport, not per trip. That's a jump of two-thirds. An increase to...

The summer airline wars kicked off Friday, and escalated over the weekend, with Southwest Airlines kicking it off with $49 to $99 one-way fares. The NBC affiliate in San Diego recently ran this video: Other airlines jumped on the sale bandwagon. I was looking for a July flight from San Francisco...

For years, the airlines' best deals came with an annoying catch: You had to stay in your destination for at least one Saturday night. The Saturday-stay hitch has been greatly eroded by the market pressure applied by the no-frills airlines. Those upstarts also made one-way tickets affordable, which...

Obese people who are flying internationally will have to wait a while until U.S. courts decide to pick up any similar issues. But for now, in Canada, functionally disabled obese people will have the right to a free extra seat when flying inside Canada. The ruling by Canada's Supreme Court brought...

Those of us who were leaning toward Delta Air Lines because of its policy of allowing a free first checked bag can now abandon any favoritism. As of December 5 (just in time for the holidays!), it will start charging $15 for the first check bag. That figure is pretty much what everyone's charging...