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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.

LAX Officials Forecast Drop In Thanksgiving Travel (CBS 2 Los Angeles)
Fewer flights and available seats mean fewer passengers will travel through Los Angeles International and LA/Ontario International airports during the Thanksgiving holiday, airport officials announced Thursday.

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.

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.

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 briefs (San Jose Mercury News)
Travel news in brief

State rolls back road work for hunting, holiday travel (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
All interstate construction projects will halt over Thanksgiving weekend and the orange barrels at construction sites will be rolled out of the way, in part to aid holiday travel, state officials said today.

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.

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

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. ...