Southwest extended its schedule from early March to early April last week. Sure it included a new city — Knoxville — but the real news was buried in the weeds. Even though capacity is basically flat ...

Blocking the middle seat is doable on some airlines – USA Today It’s a time-honored tradition to try to find ways to get more space on airplanes. This is something of a basic primer on the idea ...

The airline’s total unit revenue (TRASM) rose 4.8 percent vs Q2 2024, and its revenue per passenger flight segment was up 7 percent from $108.46 to $116.05. That’s as close as we can get to having ...

And that brings us to the first category. These three routes have flown before, but they ended with the pandemic. Setting aside MIami – Milan which is just connecting more dots, it was Budapest and ...

There is still substantial mainline flying, but that is focused on the big cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and more recently, San Diego. Fun fact, outside of those big cities plus Seattle and ...

Alaska continues its metamorphosis into a premium global carrier today by announcing a couple of new routes as well as a new livery that will apply only to the B787 fleet. The airline is really trying ...

From Choice Preferred to Choice Extra, the upsell appears to be $50 or, oddly, only $40 for international flights. That comes with ELR seating, two checked bags, even more Rapid Rewards points, a free ...

You said you wanted to hear more tales from our experiences at Cranky Concierge, so here I am with another round. I’ve written here at length about American’s big sales transformation where it slashed ...

There’s a good chance you know someone who has told you, “oh yeah, I know someone who got COVID on an airplane.” That’s most likely not true. Not only is it unlikely that someone could pinpoint ...

I’ve already gotten you up to speed on Delta’s request for DOT to allow airlines to pick which gateway they use for up to 2 of their Tokyo Haneda flights, and today it’s time to dig into United’s ...