Spirit has proudly taken the lead on challenging couplings in the past, most notably the NEA. That fight resulted in an impressive act of juggling since it was just shortly after that it agreed to be ...

Currently, Delta travelers can earn both redeemable and elite qualifying (MQDs) SkyMiles on Hawaiian interisland flights. They can also use SkyMiles to redeem for interisland travel. The third ...

My name is Brett Snyder, and I am the President and Chief Airline Dork of Cranky Flier LLC. I’ve had the airline bug since I was young. I never wanted to fly… I just loved the complexity of the ...

Once in the air, we hung a right, and climbed to cruising altitude. I had somehow forgotten my noise-canceling headphones, and man, it is so loud in the back of that airplane on climb. That’s ...

American has decided that the way it sells travel through third parties and to companies in general is broken, and it has launched a risky effort to completely remake the space. If this works, Delta ...

Occasionally, AA still runs internationally-configured tag flights through DFW, mostly on 787s, though sometimes 777s. There’s usually 1-2 per day to/from LAX and ORD, though the times vary. If you ...

There is simply too much capacity on US-Australia and US-New Zealand flights, particularly out of LAX and United only has itself to blame. The number of seats in the market is unrealistic and ...

These few words sum up the whole Elliot mess perfectly. “The more discussions I’ve had with people about this — and there have been so many — the more I’m convinced that the cynical take on this whole ...

There isn’t an easy way to categorize each of these terminals and their functions, but I’ll try my best. Terminal 1 is an international terminal with some strange bedfellows thanks to airlines jointly ...

There is no LUV for Southwest Airlines management this week as activist investor Elliott has taken more than a 10 percent stake in the airline and wants to fire Chairman Gary Kelly and CEO Bob Jordan.

Good analysis – thanks for sharing! Two additional thoughts: 1) I think they’re gonna get they’re lunch eaten on connecting traffic. I live in one of those small grey dots (so we’re pretty used to the ...