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 ...

From that point on, Honolulu seats declined and Neighbor Island seats soared. It really changed gears before the pandemic when Southwest entered the market. That momentum carried the Neighbor Islands ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

If this is what you’re seeing from Southwest as an outsider, I can only imagine how confusing & chaotic things are at Southwest for the middle management and below (down to the rank and file hourly ...

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 ...

UA has a row with the port side seats being regular pitch and the starboard seats in the same row being extra pitch on the Max -9s. This is due to the mid-cabin lav replacing row 7 on the port side ...