How many people can they cram into that thing
Evoking images of a circus clown car, packed beyond reason, Emirates seems to be looking into using their enormous order book of Airbus A380s as...
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Bad news for SkyMiles fans
Delta has made a couple more changes to the SkyMiles program, and as one might guess, they aren’t good for the consumer. This week’s changes...
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JetBlue to charge for extra legroom, exit row seats
JetBlue, long committed to an egalitarian attitude in the sky, seems to be moving away from that plan slightly with the introduction of a “pay-for-legroom”...
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Delta looks to buy out their staff
Faced with the very real possibility that their desired merger with Northwest will fall through due to the inability of the pilot’s unions to negotiate...
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Why can’t they deal with snow in Montreal?
My quick trip up to Montreal last weekend had me asking this question over and over again, just about every minute that we were outside...
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Terminal shuffle
The much awaited and hyped opening of the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow has come and gone, and not a single passenger has boarded a...
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Airline merger mania finally converts (almost)
While most of the merger mania in the airline industry has been focused recently on the Delta-Northwest discussions. But on the other side of the...
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Lufthansa opens up on plans for JetBlue
After buying a 19% stake in the NYC-based carrier late last year as a “strictly financial” investment, it would seem that Lufthansa is finally willing...
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A Southwest Saga
Southwest Airlines has come under fire in the past week for allegedly operating a number of planes that were “unsafe.” The initial media reports that...
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Are people stupider on airplanes?
A slightly entertaining column in the NYTimes today about how people do stupid things on airplanes. Sadly, in reading the three examples the author provides...