Delta has gone in a different direction that American. Total widebody seats climbed from just shy of 33,000 to more than 46,000. Where did this come from? It’s pretty simple, actually. The 18-strong ...

Southwest extended its schedule from early March to early April last week. Sure it included a new city — Knoxville — but the real news was buried in the weeds. Even though capacity is basically flat ...

The airline’s total unit revenue (TRASM) rose 4.8 percent vs Q2 2024, and its revenue per passenger flight segment was up 7 percent from $108.46 to $116.05. That’s as close as we can get to having ...

Why Cheap Airline Seats Are Getting Harder to Find – The Wall Street Journal (Subscription required) The numbers suggest that fares are starting to rebound for the airlines, but I gave the opposite ...

And that brings us to the first category. These three routes have flown before, but they ended with the pandemic. Setting aside MIami – Milan which is just connecting more dots, it was Budapest and ...

There is still substantial mainline flying, but that is focused on the big cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and more recently, San Diego. Fun fact, outside of those big cities plus Seattle and ...

From Choice Preferred to Choice Extra, the upsell appears to be $50 or, oddly, only $40 for international flights. That comes with ELR seating, two checked bags, even more Rapid Rewards points, a free ...

Alaska continues its metamorphosis into a premium global carrier today by announcing a couple of new routes as well as a new livery that will apply only to the B787 fleet. The airline is really trying ...

You said you wanted to hear more tales from our experiences at Cranky Concierge, so here I am with another round. I’ve written here at length about American’s big sales transformation where it slashed ...

There’s a good chance you know someone who has told you, “oh yeah, I know someone who got COVID on an airplane.” That’s most likely not true. Not only is it unlikely that someone could pinpoint ...