First, Frontier’s average stage length absolutely plunged 14 percent from 996 miles to 856 miles. If you’re flying 14 percent less, you don’t mind the 8 percent decline in fare quite as much. Still, ...

Chicago is of course an important destination, but it’s also the most useful connecting hub to the Northeast US without flying to BWI. The addition of a redeye to BWI allows Southwest to maintain ...

The 757 was the absolute king of the road up until the pandemic. It wasn’t until the Great Recession when the use of the 757 peaked on long flights, but it remained very important until the pandemic ...

Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: Alaska’s Big Quarter, JetBlue’s Less-Big Quarter ...

When the Soviet empire fell apart in the 1990s, so did Czechoslovakia. ČSA was actually ahead of the curve by two years when it split into Czechoslovakian Airlines (which later became the Czech we ...

Southwest announced its third quarter earnings this week, and the results were not bad. (It’s easy to look good when you announce the same day as American….) But this wasn’t the most important news of ...

The Department of Transportation (DOT) in late April finalized rules requiring airlines to automatically issue refunds if there’s a disruption and no acceptable alternative exists. It sounds great in ...

Things don’t appear to be going all that well for Iceland-based Play Airlines, the heir to the WOW Air legacy. With results coming in worse than expected, the airline is shifting its plans away from ...

Analysts and media had circled September 26 on their calendars for a long time. That was the day that Southwest would present its long-awaited plan to “transform” itself. I don’t always care about ...

I’m well aware that I’ve written a lot about United’s recent network announcement, but there’s still more to be said. Today, I want to talk about the airline’s Atlantic Plus-Plus (A++) joint venture ...