Thanksgiving is just weeks away and if you're traveling by plane and don't have a ticket yet, prepare yourself. There are going to be more fees, including an airline surcharge for traveling on the busiest days surrounding the upcoming holidays -- including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. High fares plus added airline surcharges are all adding up to expensive travel for many this holiday season.

The Federal Aviation Administration has revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew past their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles last week. Northwest pilots Richard Cole and Timothy Cheney violated numerous regulations, including operating carelessly and recklessly.

There is plenty of speculation as to why Northwest Airlines flight number 188 flew right past its destination, the Minneapolis airport. Some reports indicate that the pilots fell asleep and had to be alerted by airline attendants. Others report that the pilots were in a heated debate so they went 150 miles past the Minneapolis airport before realizing that they had backtrack. It's all rumor at this point and only the flight recorder knows for sure.

The holidays are typically the busiest time of year to travel and now there is going to be an added surcharge during that time. Travelers looking to fly on the busiest days of the year will see extremely high prices on airfare. In addition, multiple airlines have decided to add a new $10 surcharge for popular travel dates this winter.

AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, is in the middle of negotiations to establish a powerful alliance with Japan Airlines (JAL), company that is already associated with oneworld, along with British Airways and Iberia.

Think of it as an all you can eat buffet with an airline, instead of food. Pay $599, and you can fly JetBlue anywhere they go, as often as you like, from September 8 to October 8, 2009.

Pet Airways, an airline catering to pets, and only pets, is ready for take-off. In fact, it flew its first flight this week.

Officials say one survivor, a child, has been rescued. The bodies of three other people were also recovered. Yemenia Airways crashed in the Indian Ocean early this morning.

An Airbus A310, from the national airline Yemenia on route to Comoros crashed in the Indian Ocean with 150 passengers on board. No information is avilable about the passengers and the crew. The cause of the Yemenia airline crash is not known yet.

Airlines are hurt by the decline travel to Mexico due to swine flu travel advisory. Pork prices are hurt because of the swine flu name associated with pork meat. A list of industries are hurt by the growing fear of swine flu. VOA reports on the price decline in the range of industries.

The word gets out that Allegiant Air is offering one way discount tickets to Los Angeles costing only $15 dollars, which in turn makes the www.allegiantair.com server not available due to high demand. We just could not visit to allegiantair.com to see the information about the $15 dollar discounts of one way flights to L.A.