Winning “best price” game, even when they cheat
When every online booking site is offering a "best price guarantee" of one sort or another is it really worth checking them all? According to...
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Open borders = more business
I love getting my monthly update email from the Air Astana Nomad Club. It has marginal practical value to me as I’ve never flown on...
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Allegiant adds a “fee to pay”
Allegiant is second only to Spirit Air in the United States in their focus on ancillary fees as a source of revenue. Both now charge...
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Virgin Atlantic adding domestic service to its route map
Having lost partner bmi to British Airways, UK carrier Virgin Atlantic is looking to recover some the domestic feed it uses to fill long-haul flights....
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United (maybe) brings back pending upgrade status indicator
UPDATE (9pm EDT): It is working now; see below! One of the more vocal complaints lodged early on with respect to the "new" United Airlines...
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United to ‘slim’ their A320 fleet
United Airlines will be changing the seats on their A320 fleet starting in 2013 according to the Apex blog, switching to the Recaro BL3250 Slimline...
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United 96, Declaring an emergency
Last night we got another reminder of how things don’t always go as planned when a plane begins a journey. A United Airlines 757 departing...
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Beating jetlag, with a bit of help from NASA
Did you know that there are some people who are actually better at switching east rather than west? Turns out that about 25% us are....
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American’s Direct Connect doing brisk business via Priceline
Just how important is it to the airlines to have ancillary sales available through online travel agencies? Very, it would seem, based on the initial...
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British Airways reconnecting the British Empire to Ceylon
A couple hundred years ago the British Empire ruled over many a far-flung spot of land. One such area, a small island off the coast...