United Airlines ends coach preboarding for children – CNN.com: “Kate Hanni of flyersrights.org calls the move ‘very anti-family.’ ‘There are very few things a parent can count on when it comes to air travel these days, but one of those things was always the ability to board first to get your children settled in and all of their needs met before the throngs of people board the plane,’ said Hanni in an e-mail to CNN. ‘I hope United changes their mind.'” (Via cnn travel.) Here’s a better…

Hundreds of passengers traveling from India to Britain were stranded when their Comtel airline flight stopped for fuel in Austria over the weekend. The charter service asked them to kick in more than 20,000 pounds ($31,000) to fund the rest of the flight to Birmingham, England. via Airline passengers asked for extra cash for fuel. This is obviously an exception, not the general rule. It was a chartered flight, not a typical commercial airline. But it is the extreme example of a growing problem with commerce in general…