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It started out as just an ordinary trip to the Caribbean and wound up as a baggage claim nightmare thanks to two airlines, three airports and the always unnamed gremlins responsible for the increasing amount of misplaced—and downright lost—luggage around the globe.

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When Henry Harteveldt looks to the future of travel, he sees fees. Lots of fees. Take airline tickets, for example. “The airlines are up in arms about the fees being charged by the credit card issuers and bank processors,” says Harteveldt, who, as an analyst for Forrester Research, gets paid to think about these things.

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Boy, has Beijing changed in the nine years since I was last here. Not only are the air and streets much cleaner — thanks to the city’s effort to shape up in time for the 2008 Olympics — but the city is also much more user-friendly for travelers.

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Many consumers assume that their favorite airfare booking engine or “aggregator” includes fares on all airlines. This simply isn’t the case. Airfarewatchdog researchers have found that some sites exclude certain airlines, either because these airlines only sell seats on their own site, or sometimes because the airline refuses to pay the aggregator or online travel agency (OTA) a fee for listing its fares.

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