air fare

    By Jason Cochran

    | 12:00PM 5/13/2009
    Airfares have been remarkably cheap of late, but let's not live in a fool's paradise. Summer is afoot, and prices will inevitably go higher than they are now. STA Travel, a big travel agency chain specializing in student and discount travel, is warning travelers that if there's somewhere they want...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 12:00PM 3/08/2009
    One little-noted aspect of Obama's budget is that it calls for an as-yet-unspecified increase in government fees for commercial airline tickets starting in 2012.The administration says that right now, only 36% of security costs are being covered by that $2.50-per-flight surcharge that Bush put into...