pay the same price because those carriers jacked up their fares so prices will remain the same and they will pocket the difference. southwest and air tran praised about $8. spear customers won t see them budge a penny. we heard the big problem with faa is purely political. the american people are paying thousand dollars in tickets in sub disfrom people that riding were six passengers on a plane when they could drive an hour and a half and get an airplane and we wouldn t be paying the thousand dollars. it is continued waste in the federal government. the chief of staff chose to focus less on waste and more on what he sees as republicans blocking an important bill. this dispute between the house and senate broke down and 4,000 people were laid off on friday because of a political inability for the us house and senate to get together. the republicans in the house
to get 60 to $70 off every earl ticket you purchased. wait a minute, some airlines say we re not going to pass along the savings to you on taxes, we re going to add it on to the current price of airline tickets. and that would mean 25 million dollars a day for these airlines. juliet: let s give you the good news first. i love virgin america by the way, a great airline, so cool inside, by the way. virgin america, it s all lit up, wild. clayton: purple and they re sharing the savings. they did not, and they actually did a bit of a promotion about this. we re not raising taxes and did an online campaign. juliet: taxes and spirit did not. they re letting you reap the berths of this. dave: who is the scrooge of the airlines. juliet: northwest, air tran and united. dave: southwest? if again, unconfirmed reports that they, some companies say they may, in
rise slowly as well. if you go to cnn.com/live, we hooked up a webcam here in the butte la rose community. you can see the perspective that we have there. you can see part of the water and the homes that could very well be flooded out by this. we ll see how long we ll be able to watch that as the floodwaters rise in. the parish president said he will issue mandatory evacuation orders by the end of the week. checking stories across country in minnesota, a spoke person says a captain from air tran was removed from a plane for suspicion of being drunk. police were alerted after a tsa sergeant said the captain smelled like alcohol. shirley sherrod it back to work at the usda. sherrod was fired ars director of rural development in july, after a misleading videotape showed her making racially insensitive remarks. in connecticut, the senior who got banned from the prom after taping 12-inch letters to
let s listen in. all three are still in good shape as are all of the other sims aboard the orbiter. a team of flight controllers watches over all the systems. 4:20 into the flight. endeavour s traveling 5500 miles per hour. altitude 63 miles traveling downrange, about 335 feet in altitude. environmental and control systems officer here reporting a good flash evaporator system reporting cooling to equipment aboard the vehicle. traveling into space on the forward flight deck is mark kelly and greg johnson. between and behind them, flight engineer to ato. rog roger. endeavour can reach orbit on two engines, however, all three are still performing as planned. foistal heading to the international space station for the first time. making the first voyage on the space shuttle after flying to the international space station after soyous spacecraft previously. endeavour, single engine up three. that call indicates that endeavour could reach a transatlantic abort si
or poor service. and when it comes to individual airlines, 93% of southwest passengers avoided all fees at check-in, followed by 57% of continental passengers and the lowest goes to air tran with only 33% avoiding a fee. rick cinni says we haven t seen a major increase in fees recently, but if these oil prices continue to creep up for any extended period of time, he says get ready, you may see an attempt at adding on more of those wonderful fees, don. really? i mean, come on. right? really. enough already. i know. i told you it never ends. so with all of these fees, what should you do when it s time to book that flight? allison has some top tips on how to fly for less. talk tips, brought to you by angie s list.com. 6/