I spent most of this week at the Boyd Conference (properly known as the International Aviation Forecast Summit). While I have plenty of posts to compile from that, it's something that wasn't announced at | Continue reading
After a week bouncing around the Carolinas, it was time to come home. As is always the case when we return from visiting the in-laws in North Carolina, we had the choice of a | Continue reading
Thanks to a mess of bad weather in the eastern half of the country, it has been a rough summer for airline operations. I swear it's been so bad lately that any day I | Continue reading
This week's featured link: Sabre Agrees to Pilot New Technologies With American Airlines and Other Travel Giants - Skift Distribution-giant Sabre spent a long, long time fighting against the use of NDC to modernize airline distribution, but | Continue reading
When I first came out of college in 1999, I started work as an analyst in pricing & tariffs for America West Airlines. I realize I sound like an old man when I say | Continue reading
When I first heard that a non-pilot had stolen a Horizon Air Dash-8 Q400 and flew around Seattle for an hour, I couldn't help but be impressed. How could someone who doesn't have a license | Continue reading
For many years, Delta seemed like an airline in search of an Asia strategy while its competitors pushed forward definitively. Now that the Korean Air joint venture is in place, however, the combined Delta/Korean | Continue reading
Just in case you needed a reminder, Dorkfest is coming in just over a month on September 22 from 11am to 1pm (though I can't remember ever leaving that early). Be there or be square. What | Continue reading
We had a wedding to attend just outside of Charleston, South Carolina, and when I looked at flights, I realized something obvious: flying to Charleston on a Friday during the summer is not cheap. | Continue reading
Yesterday I wrote about the denied boarding trends at Alaska, American, Delta, and United. Today, I'm going to start with Southwest and work my way through the rest of the branded airlines that report | Continue reading
Everyone remembers what happened on April 9, 2017. Ok, you might not recall the exact date, but that was the day that the Chicago airport police forcibly dragged Dr. Dao off a United Express | Continue reading
This week's featured link: United adding Miami-Washington Dulles flights as American drops route - USA Today As someone who lives close to Dulles said to me, "Am I the only one shocked to find out they didn’t | Continue reading
You've heard about the flight up to Seattle before our Alaska cruise; now it's time to talk about the trip home. A couple days into the cruise, I was greeted by a very welcome | Continue reading
Second quarter earnings reports have come and gone, and there were two particularly interesting pieces of news coming from American. First, American announced it will begin allowing Basic Economy travelers to bring regular carry-ons | Continue reading
British Airways has decided to return to Pittsburgh starting April 2, 2019 with a four-times weekly flight to London's Heathrow Airport on a 787. This flight alone seems like a natural extension of BA's | Continue reading
This week's featured link: Watch the new Big Metal Bird: Island Hopper - United Hub This one has always been on the bucket list - flying the famed island hopper that goes between Guam and Honolulu. | Continue reading
If you've never arranged a trip for a large number of people, then you've been missing out on the pain and suffering that comes with booking groups with airlines. Airlines have created special rules | Continue reading
Until recently, China Airlines flew two relatively successful flights from Los Angeles to Taipei every day. But on March 25, the airline took the risky step of moving one of those flights to Ontario, | Continue reading
Those of you who saw that I accidentally published my jumbled notes on AURA last week already knew this topic was coming. AURA, an airline you've probably never heard of, is under development and | Continue reading
Long Beach Airport Revitalizing a Hollywood Icon - Icons of Infrastructure They say write what you know, right? Well, here's a piece I put together on the next phase of the Long Beach terminal modernization. | Continue reading
This week's featured link: ROBERT PRICE: Struggling airport, growing city: What's up with that? - Bakersfield.com This kind of of conversation has been had throughout smaller cities around the US. Why can't we get more service? | Continue reading
This week is the Farnborough Airshow, a biennial orgy of aircraft orders where manufacturers try to flex their muscles and show the world just how much metal (or composites) they can sell. The whole | Continue reading
Last year, I turned 40. This year, it was my wife's turn. And for her 40th, she wanted to go on an Alaska cruise with me and the kids. After looking at | Continue reading
Frontier Airlines adds another city in Alabama, but what will it mean for BHM? - Birmingham Business Journal (soft paywall) You wouldn't think a couple flights a week to Denver and Orlando from Huntsville would really | Continue reading
This week's featured link: Dash 8: The Piedmont Story - YouTube As you know from reading the blog, Piedmont just retired its last Dash 8 from service. It had flown that airplane for more than 30 | Continue reading
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It wasn't long ago that Airbus finalized its deal to take control of Bombardier's CSeries aircraft program, so to celebrate, the aircraft has been renamed in the Airbus naming convention. Say hello to the | Continue reading
It's so common to come across an article trying to arbitrarily rank airlines or airports one way or another that I generally have little trouble ignoring them all. But when I saw Airways cite | Continue reading
When IAG launched LEVEL last year as a long-haul, low-cost airline, I understood the niche. But now, LEVEL is growing and not in ways you'd expect. The airline will open its first short-haul | Continue reading
LaGuardia Rebuilds to Go Beyond “Third World,” but is it Enough? - Icons of Infrastructure Here's another Icons piece, but this one I didn't write. I was just interviewed about my thoughts on LaGuardia's rebuild. | Continue reading
This week's featured link: US DOT terminates EAS availability at 21 communities - ch-aviation It's that time again when the Department of Transportation culls the list of essential air service markets. This year, 21 airports are | Continue reading
Yesterday, American Eagle flight 4927 landed in Salisbury, Maryland right around dusk. That flight, operated by a Dash 8-300, marks the end of turboprop operations for its owner, Piedmont, and for American Eagle. | Continue reading
By now you've likely heard about David Neeleman's new airline, Moxy, which I hope is a temporary name. While full details are sparse, we can already see the ou | Continue reading
I'm back from vacation tomorrow, so here's one last Hawaiian post for you. With only one night in Hawai'i, it was easy to stay on West Coast time. I went to | Continue reading
The vacation chugs along. I'm back with regular posts on July 3. For mainland visitors, the airports of Hawai'i probably seem better than they are. The out | Continue reading
I'm back! Just kidding. I'm still on a blog break. Keep reading about my visit with Hawaiian. Regular posts resume on July 3. Part of the reason I accept | Continue reading
My vacation is just getting started, so enjoy this week of posts about my visit with Hawaiian. I'm back with regular content on July 3. I mentioned in my tr | Continue reading
Honolulu’s Long-Awaited Airport Modernization You already saw my post this week about how difficult it is to deal with the airports in Hawai'i, but Icons | Continue reading
I'm going on vacation from the blog for the next week and a half, so get ready for a whole lot of Hawaiian. I'll be back with more regular content on July 3. | Continue reading
Welcome back for the second part of my interview with Robert Isom, President of American Airlines, while he was in Los Angeles for a town hall with employees. | Continue reading
On Friday, I had the chance to spend some time with Robert Isom, President of American Airlines, when he came to Los Angeles for a town hall meeting. I've long | Continue reading
This week's featured link: Going Global in Orlando! Spirit Airlines Announces Major International Expansion - Spirit Airlines Years ago, Spirit poured its eff | Continue reading
Just this week, United quietly started filing a handful of fares that include Economy Plus seating in the Newark to Ft Lauderdale market. The fares are pretty | Continue reading
I haven't written about it much, but Cranky Concierge has been growing a lot. We're now up to 14 people on the team, but we need at least one or two more. Spe | Continue reading
I've lined up a handful of interviews here on the blog which you'll see in the next few weeks. Today, I'm starting with David Neeleman. As you know, David has | Continue reading
It's been awhile since I did one of these posts, but the time has come to take a look at Primera, an airline you may be surprised I've ignored for this long. A | Continue reading
Los Angeles’ Massive Airport Makeover - Icons of Infrastructure I stopped doing freelance writing a long time ago, but Icons of Infrastructure asked me i | Continue reading
This week's featured link: So Long, Sydney: Take-Aways From IATA's Meeting of World's Airline Execs - Stuck at the Airport I've still never been to IATA's ann | Continue reading