Ed Perkins Quotations

Since labor action falls into the same category as 'Act of God' and 'Act of War,' the carriers have no legal obligation to do anything for the consumer,

People will spend two hours looking around London or Paris to save $2 on exchange costs. That's really crazy.

CDW is priced at gouge levels -- three, four or five times what it ought to be, based on real risk. Most people are better off using some better system to cover themselves.

There is a false perception out there that the airlines are required to compensate passengers when their flights are canceled or delayed, when in fact, they are only required to provide compensation to passengers who were 'bumped' from an overbooked flight.

Historically, airlines have sought to maintain goodwill among their passengers by providing them with some compensation or refund.

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

I think we're talking a minimum of 20 years and maybe 30 since something like this happened.

Just call your bank and tell them, 'I'm going to be using this card in France or Bongo or wherever it is.

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Passengers are saying, 'I won't accept the offer; I want a better one,'

The 3 percent charge has been coming into effect over the past year, but a lot of smaller banks and credit unions only charge the 1 percent, and American Express is still at 2 percent.

You can do something in about every price range. You can buy a $10,000 cruise all the way down to a $10 gadget in a travel store.

When a strike prevents them from serving you, they will generally waive the various restrictive rules. There's no law that says they have to, but that's a general business practice.

We got off to a fast start and we wanted that on a cold night. We let them come back into the game, but then we toughened up in the second half. We didn't worry too much about (the fumbles). That's gonna happen on a night like this.

Brian's progressed a lot from last year. He's come a long way and he's running the ball now.

Each airline that's involved sets the prices and some of these differences can be huge.

The travel industry is very interested in building up this holiday season travel market. Part of the reason, of course, is that right now is really a dead time of year for business travel.

As far as the operation of the airline is concerned, almost nothing changes. People keep buying tickets, the airline flights operate as usual, and travelers would be hard-put to know that the bankruptcy ever happened.

This is important information that consumers should know before they put their money down on a ticket.

It's one of the few times that consumers have the upper hand.

It kind of reminded us of last year. And that's a place we definitely didn't want to go to again.

That's a question of personal lifestyle. Lots of people don't like carrying more than $50 or $100. Other people aren't comfortable unless they have $300 or $400.

The feeling there is that you're getting at least some kind of consensus.

If one of the big guys goes out, it's going to throw a tremendous load on all the others, and it means seats are going to be very difficult to get.

In today's travel environment, the more information you have the better. As long as the information is accurate, I don't see any downside for travelers.

The first thing they should do, clearly, is find out what their alternatives might be. What you do depends on how urgent it is that you make that particular trip on that particular day.