PNR stands for Passenger Name Record. It’s travel lingo for a record in the database of a computer reservation system that contains the itinerary for a passenger as well as the TSA required information. In other words, it is Travel-On’s record containing all the separate reservations (air/rail, car, and hotel) …

For many years the airlines have limited the number of seats available for pre-assignment and held the rest to give out at the airport on the day of departure, or more recently, if checking in online 24 hours in advance. We were all accustomed to seeing “”seating under airport control”” …

“FF Surcharge” stands for “frequent flyer surcharge”. This is a fee of about $0.75/day that is charged any time there is a frequent flyer number entered into the car reservation. It is easy to avoid – instead of entering the frequent flyer number you want the car credit to go …