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Thanksgiving air travel expected to fall 10 percent this year (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Tight finances will keep many people at home during the Thanksgiving holiday, the busiest time of the year for air travel.

Premium airline travel drops by 8% (Independent Online)
International airline passenger numbers plummeted in the 12 months to September, with business as well as leisure travel falling, according to the International Air Transport Association (Iata) premium travel monitor, released yesterday.

Plan Your Travel Effectively (PC World)
New travel planners aren't your everyday Orbitz.

Port spends big bucks to travel (WTSP - Tampa Bay's 10 News)
The Tampa Port Authority spent close to $200,000 in travel related expenses in the past two years.

E-Travel Outfits Packing More Treats (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
From an automatic travel journal to a service that tracks when the ticket price falls for a specific flight, many new tech travel tools entered the market in the past year even amid the turbulent economy.

Former director of state unemployment panel misused travel budget, audit finds (Los Angeles Times)
The state auditor also cited concerns about widespread nepotism at the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. The recently ousted executive director of the state panel on unemployment benefit appeals incurred "unnecessary and wasteful" travel expenses, including excessively costly hotels and rental cars that went largely unused, the state auditor said in a report Thursday. ...

DOT offers holiday travel tips (Seattle Times)
The state Department of Transportation has a Web site — www.wsdot.wa.gov — that will provide the best times to travel the state's highways over the Thanksgiving weekend. Most highways and local roads are expected to be busy on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, and the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The information here may help travelers avoid delays.

Lawyer: Michael Jackson may be too sick to travel (The New Sabah Times)
Michael Jackson might be too sick to travel to London to testify in a suit claiming he owes an Arab sheik $7 million, the pop star’s attorney said Tuesday.

Fewer Americans to travel during Thanksgiving holiday (People's Daily)
Fewer Americans are expected to travel during the Thanksgiving holiday due to the ongoing economic downturn, authorities said on Thursday. The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) said it will have fewer flights and more available seats as the holiday is drawing near. The airport is expected to receive 1.6 million passengers between Friday and Nov. 30, a 14.3-percent decline from the 1.85 ...

Travel agents want a return to commission structure (Calcutta News)
Travel agents associations in India have called on air operators to withdraw the transaction fee system they introduced on Nov 1st to reinstate the earlier five percent travel agents' commission.