This week on The Air Show, Brian leads us in talking about United’s new MileagePlus earning change. Have the credit card? You are important. You don’t? You are not. It’s yet another move away from ...

Spirit’s Fort Lauderdale home will remain important, though it sounds like weakness in Latin America may see that connectivity reduce to some extent. Orlando is also a key city. Other than that? It’s ...

After a short taxi, we rolled into our gate at AIFA. The terminal is a large building with gates in a straight line. Excluding ground boarding and bus gate possibilities, there are 14 real gates with ...

By then, TWA had been taken over by American (in 2001) and despite an early effort to keep the hub going, it only shrank from that point. The hub officially closed in 2009, the same year the Air ...

Mexicana was fine, but the real star of the show was the Embraer E2.

My gate was further down, so I just grabbed a seat toward the base of the concourse and checked email using the free wifi, still having an hour until my flight. I then got up, bought a bottle of water ...

This year, I’m working with a college student from Northwestern, Noah, to learn more about how you consume Cranky Flier and what changes might be good or bad… or at least worth thinking about. And now ...

More than two years ago, I asked, who the heck is BermudAir? The airline has actually been flying for more than two years now, and before the holidays I had the chance to talk with the airline’s CEO ...

Today on The Air Show podcast, we released an interview with Southwest COO Andrew Watterson and CFO Tom Doxey. You should listen to that, but I decided to write a companion piece to give some more ...

If Memphis was Northwest’s way of getting geographically beyond its core hubs, Cincinnati did the same thing for Delta but in reverse. Delta was already strong in the south with the impenetrable ...

What a difference a day makes. After writing about the escalating war between United and American yesterday, United has decided it is done messing around. The airline is announcing this morning that ...

It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good, old-fashioned, knock-down war between two airlines, but sure enough it seems that we are in the early stages of that very thing between American and United.