Articles tagged “holidays”

Ground Transport

Memorial Day road trips driven by fee fatigue

Are travelers getting used to airline fees, or is fee fatigue spurring more road trips? The slightly higher number of travelers taking to the roads this Memorial Day weekend may also be driven by airline capacity cuts. At any rate, at some juncture there will be a tipping point where the airline fee frenzy becomes just too much and decisively changes traveler behavior.
Airlines

Are airports the new malls for holiday shopping?

Airports are ramping up their retail offerings both to become destinations in their own right and squeeze a profit out of flyers listlessly waiting around. Whether it's as successful as this Times trend piece argues is another matter.