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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was supposed to be a nice and easy flight home from Honolulu after a great trip. I had been sitting on a ton of points from last October when Hawaiian canceled a couple flights impacting four ...