The cuts keep on coming – United shuts down in South Florida
Like most domestic carriers United Airlines is looking to cut service this fall/winter in hopes that they can avoid bankruptcy and/or liquidation. The latest salvo...
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Bye-bye, Ted!
United Airlines is planning severe cuts to their fleet, their route capacity and their staff, according to sources; the formal announcement could come as soon...
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Flying to Europe the long way
Every now and then an airline messes up the routing rules in their booking engines, resulting in some pretty impressive deals. I almost flew NYC...
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Hawaii on sale, again
Looks like a new Hawaii fare war has cropped up. This time the combatants are Continental and United, with each offering sub-$300 fares from the...
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A fake mistake??
For about eight hours today United supposedly was not charging fuel surcharges on a number of domestic routes. What is particularly interesting about this is...
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JetBlue aborts LAX service
A couple months after huge fanfare announcement of new service from LAX, JetBlue has postponed the launch of the service from LAX indefinitely, citing high...
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More merger mania news
Most pundits (self included) had been suggesting that following the expected DL/NW merger that United and Continental would be the next pair to join up....
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USAir: Now selling the good seats
One of the very poorly kept secrets to travel as a non-elite is that the “good seats” at the front of the plane, normally reserved...
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Frequent Flyer Program Panic
With the merger announcement this evening there seems to be a ton of speculation on the future of the frequent flyer programs for both Delta...
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Delta/Northwest merger announced
After dancing around the situation the past several weeks in hopes that their pilots would actually have an agreement to make a merger run smoothly,...