Article: Air Transport Association: Drop in Passengers During Labor Day Travel Period.

Article: Back to work, back to reality // Yep, it's Labor Day. The traditional end to our care-free, kick-back summer. For families and workers and students, it's a signal that life's getting back to normal -- too soon.
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......and scrape the gas grill clean. It's Labor Day. Better celebrate. On Tuesday, summer unofficially ends. Sniff. Whimper. Sob. Labor Day was created more than 100 years ago as...been a little bit easy on us until after Labor Day," said Mitchell Lewis, a seventh-grade...

Article: AIRLINES WEIGH FARE PRICES, GAS COSTS\ FULL TANK OF JET FUEL NOW THOUSANDS MORE.(News)
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  August 16, 2005 ;     561 words ......can tell, the cost of jet fuel -- and thus your airline...stimulate travel between Labor Day and the busy holiday...are equally fierce. Jet fuel in most cases has risen...Come the day after Labor Day, planes may not be half...fares will drop after Labor ...

Article: Labor Day Pax to Drop 5.7 Percent.
Regional Aviation News;  August 25, 2008 ;     344 words ......airlines during the 2008 Labor Day holiday period, spanning Wed...skies to be less crowded this Labor Day holiday, said ATA President...June 1 through Aug. 12), jet fuel has averaged $160.47 per barrel...in the prior-year period. Jet fuel remains the most costly ...

Article: Gift ideas just don't work for Labor Day.(FAMILY TIMES)(LIFE AND TIMES)
The Washington Times;  September 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ......paper hats tomorrow. It is, after all, Labor Day. The agency defines the holiday as a...no line of official greeting cards for Labor Day, featuring, say, a worker bee in designer...and all a happy 9-to-5. There are no Labor Day keepsakes available for cubicle or home...

Article: Labor Day school feud resurfaces; A Senate bill that would repeal state law and let schools open before Labor Day gets a promise of a fight from foes of an early start.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 30, 2007 ;     604 words ......Minnesota schools could start before Labor Day, the debate is being reignited. Sen...prohibits schools from starting before Labor Day, except under special circumstances...her plan allows schools to start after Labor Day if that's what worked out best for them...

Article: Aiming to eke out a bit more summer; A bill would prohibit schools from starting before Labor Day.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  June 5, 2005 ;     497 words ...Byline: Norman Draper; Staff Writer Labor Day could take on new meaning next year...prohibiting schools from starting before Labor Day has been quietly making big progress...allow them exemptions. When the shifting Labor Day holiday comes late, as it did last year...

Article: Getting into the Labor Day spirit--sort of.(As I See It)(Brief Article)(Column)
Mississippi Business Journal;  September 1, 2003 ;     642 words ...Monday, September 1st, Labor Day. Just about everybody is celebrating...Department of Labor's Web site, Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is...American Federation of Labor, said, Labor Day differs in every essential way from...

Article: Labor Day born from unrest.
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  August 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Harry Wessel Labor Day, which the nation officially celebrates...fall fashion (no white shoes after Labor Day!) or the date for a charity telethon...probably is a lot you don't know about Labor Day. For instance, the observance was...

Article: Historians Trace Labor Day's Roots.
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  August 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Harry Wessel Aug. 27--Labor Day, which the nation officially celebrates...for fall fashion (no white shoes after Labor Day!) or the date for a charity telethon...probably is a lot you don't know about Labor Day. For instance, the observance was conceived...

Article: Meaning slowly slips away from Labor Day.
Record (Stockton, CA);  September 4, 2006 ;     560 words ......Siders Sep. 4--Americans today celebrate Labor Day, one last grasp at summer before fall...prepares to mark its 124th celebration of Labor Day, the presence of union labor is in decline...expecting that it's a day off. From the first Labor Day march, in New York in 1882, through ...

Article: Labor Day travel plans take a hit
Daily Breeze;  August 28, 2008 ;     529 words ......Southern Californians will be hitting the roads this Labor Day weekend, opting instead to lounge in their inflatable...percent lower than last year, when the number of Labor Day vacationers rose 1 percent, according to the Automobile...organization. That's because the soaring cost of jet ...

Article: Strike Creates Turbulence in Jet Fuel Market.(Northwest Airlines)
The Oil Daily;  September 8, 1998 ;     646 words ......its second week, spot cargo markets for jet fuel in the United States have started to feel...carrier is the nation's fourth-largest jet fuel user and accounts for about 12% of the...began Aug. 29. All eyes were pinned on jet fuel differentials in Chicago, which were the...

Article: Military jet fuel supplies sufficient.
The Oil Daily;  January 25, 1991 ;     317 words ...Military Jet Fuel Supplies Sufficient Military jet fuel supplies are more than adequate to keep up the fierce air...Refiners in the United States, responding to previously high jet fuel prices, are overstocked, they say. It's estimated, for example...

Article: REP. MICA ISSUES STATEMENT ON PROBLEMS WITH COMMERCIAL JET FUEL SUPPLY, COSTS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Congressional oversight hearing on the commercial jet fuel supply and cost problems to the aviation...year is the supply and cost of commercial jet fuel, which is the subject of our hearing today...supply disruption propelled commercial jet fuel prices to a record-high of $3.13 per ...