Thanksgiving travel is financially stressful to those who are flying to celebrate the holiday with family and friends. With surcharges, baggage fees and even a fee for seat reservation, the price of a ticket is just the beginning when it comes to paying the price for holiday travel. However, there are ways to avoid some of these these fees.

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.

Low cost airlines start to fly in the travelers' radar as Jet America Airlines introduces 9 dollar fares and will start operations on July 13. One wonders how is Jet America going to make money with 9 dollar fares? Or is this only to create some initial buzz about cheap airline tickets?

Airline analyst discovers link between rising oil prices and airline losses.

Two U.S. airlines, Delta and Northwest, have agreed to merge, a move that would create the world's largest airline, and might spark a wave of consolidations in the troubled industry.

Yesterday American Airlines' CEO Gerard Arpey took the podium, and took control of a situation that the airline had failed to take control of since news of the airline's MD-80 groundings first hit the news wires on Tuesday.

When ever a mainland brand comes to Hawaii for business it is a good for Hawaii, however in the case of Aloha Airlines shutting its doors due to cheap ticket tactics of mainland airlines such as the Go airlines the impact will be felt well beyond the loss of our beloved local airline.