In-flight: Taking the Southwest/Row44 wifi for a ride
With more than 500 planes fitted with the Row44 in-flight internet kit a flight on Southwest these days is quite likely to mean an opportunity...
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Who gets Southwest’s LUV from Dallas?
The Wright Amendment may not be fully retired for another 36 weeks yet, but Southwest is ready to get started in adding new routes from...
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Wanna get away internationally?
Southwest has finally loaded up international flights into their schedules. Starting 1 July 2014 you’ll be able to fly on a Southwest-operated flights to three...
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Virgin America to establish east coast operations
With the closure of the American Airlines/US Airways merger now complete many of the final pieces are falling in to place. Among them, the landing...
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Gate-to-gate wifi: Coming soon, but someone has to pay for it
Now that personal electronic device use is permitted gate-to-gate on the bulk of flights in the USA (and most of the rest should be on...
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A year of double SkyMiles for Seattle
Delta is going big at Seattle, making it in to a major gateway for traffic to Asia. Of course, they need to feed traffic in...
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Free checked bags now on nearly every AirTran flight
This week Southwest announced a rather significant milestone related to their integration with subsidiary AirTran. All flights on both carriers can now be booked as...
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Southwest’s latest fee: $40 to board first
It is no secret that Southwest wants to aggressively pursue ancillary revenue opportunities as they look to remain profitable. They’ve already announced things like restricting...
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Southwest to pour more booze; lawsuit settled over drink chits
It was just over two years ago that Southwest decided to forcibly expire old drink chits. It was not long after the policy change that...
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United cuts off points aggregation sites
United Airlines has joined the ranks of companies trying to limit their customers ability to track loyalty program data through third party aggregation sites. They...