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Suspected flight stowaway indicted and This isn't the airline I signed up for
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- A man being held without bond was indicted Friday on charges he stowed away aboard a cross-country flight and later tried to do it again, federal authorities said.Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, 24, could get a maximum 15-year prison term if convicted on two federal charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.Noibi allegedly got past security at John F. Kennedy International Airport and boarded a June 23 Virgin America flight to Los Angeles without a valid boarding pass or identification.While authorities have said they do not have any indication of a terrorism threat related to the case, it has raised questions about the quality of the airport's security as well as Noibi's intentions.Noibi was arrested June 29 by an FBI agent at a Delta departure gate at Los Angeles International Airport, where Noibi arrived to apparently board another flight -- again, without any proper documentation or a ticket. [Read the full article]
Editor's note: Brett Snyder writes a weekly CNN.com travel column. Snyder is the founder of air travel assistance site Cranky Concierge, and he writes the consumer air travel blog The Cranky Flier.(CNN) -- When I worked at America West, we had a codesharing partnership with Continental. Friends would call me, confused."I bought a ticket on America West, but there's a Continental airplane here. What's going on?" This was common back then, but it has become a bigger issue with the growth of codesharing -- airlines selling flights operated by partners as their own.While disclosure of the airline operating the flight is required by the government, it's still easy to miss if you aren't paying close attention.In fact, if you book a ticket on one airline, say United, it's possible you'll never set foot on a United plane. Let's say you want to fly from Philadelphia to Krakow, Poland. [Read the full article]
(CNN) -- The two-month drop in gasoline prices across the country has stopped, according to a survey published Sunday.The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline is $3.62, down just a penny over the past two weeks, the Lundberg survey found.The price is a 38-cent drop from the beginning of May, when the average topped off at $4 a gallon."Further dramatic drops probably aren't in the cards," publisher Trilby Lundberg said.Crude oil prices bounced back up $5 per barrel during the same period, she said. If oil prices stay "more or less steady, gasoline prices will be too," she said.Although the United States is in the middle of peak demand season, demand is weak, Lundberg said -- a result of the economy, with fewer people taking driving vacations and the unemployed having no jobs to drive to and from each day.The city with the highest average price found in the latest survey was Chicago, at $4.03 a gallon. [Read the full article]
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