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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Cathay is a bit odd, but they probably have close to zero oneworld connecting traffic at JFK. Looks to me like DCA and ORD (and the mighty Worcester, which is going away) are the only AA connecting ...

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 ...

When we look back at the various merger integrations in the 2010s, AA did the worst job IMO of picking their hub winners and losers. DL and UA did a nice job of consolidating redundant regional ...

Reading through financial filings can be a tedious task. American’s 10-Q for the third quarter of 2023 clocks in at 211 pages, and most of that is only of interest to the finance types. But there was ...