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Frontier Airlines CEO defends $100 carry-on fee
David Brancaccio Jun 5, 2013
Carry-on baggage could cost you up to $100 on Frontier Airlines. We check in with the company's CEO to get a handle on the new fee.
Delta's CEO on passenger fees, mergers, and why subsidies are bad for business
David Brancaccio May 24, 2013
Delta’s Chief Executive Officer, Richard Anderson, discusses the industry, mergers, passenger fees, and why Delta thinks its about to have its most profitable year ever.
JFK air traffic controller on first furlough day: 'Frustrating'
Kai Ryssdal Apr 24, 2013
Air traffic controllers from JFK to LAX have begun their furloughs, making for long and painful delays, especially flying into and out of the big East Coast airports around New York City.
Lufthansa strike grounds hundreds of flights
Steve Evans Apr 22, 2013
Ground staff at Lufthansa, Germany's biggest airline, walked off the job Monday on a one-day strike that prompted the company to cancel most of the day's scheduled flights.
Global clean energy progress stalled: Report
Scott Tong Apr 17, 2013
Reports over the past couple years have suggested sky-high U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions have been falling, but what about the global energy picture? A new report suggests its nothing to write home about.
Airbus CEO on coming to America, and what it takes to compete with Boeing
Jeremy Hobson Apr 10, 2013
CEO of Airbus Fabrice Bregier joins Marketplace Morning Report host Jeremy Hobson to discuss their new assembly plant in Alabama and what's ahead for the company.
Do merging airlines actually mean better customer service?
David Gura Apr 8, 2013
A new report says airlines scored their second best performance rankings in 23 years. Find out how that happened when airline mergers were supposed to make customer service worse.
Want to be a flight attendant? Get in line.
Jim Burress Mar 18, 2013
These days, you have a better chance of getting into Harvard than you do of becoming a flight attendant.
China considers carbon tax, will U.S. consumers foot the bill?
John Sudworth Feb 22, 2013
The official news agency in China is reporting that the government will tax carbon emissions.
Massive snow storm snarls U.S. airlines, passengers
Kai Ryssdal Feb 10, 2013
As snowstorm 'Nemo' approaches the East Coast, airlines are preemptively cancelling thousands of flights. That means headaches for many travelers, but how does being grounded affect those work in the airline industry?
