Spirit Airlines is having another one of their Ryanair-like sales, putting a bunch of cities on sale for $8 each way (unlike Ryanair, these fares are only available on a handful of days).  However, they do tell you which days are available.  You can get these crazy fares from New York to Cancun, Detroit to [...]

Malaysia’s low cost juggernaut AirAsia is entering into a joint venture in Bangladesh to form the new lowfare carrier Air East Asia.  I really only mention this to show that the low fare model is now reaching areas that never thought they’d see low cost air travel (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Brazil, [...]

If you live in New York or have visited here, you may have wondered why there was no subway from LaGuardia to Manhattan.  Are we the largest city in the world without train service from the airport to the city?  Perhaps…
Anyway, here’s why:  New York’s Transit Authority had earmarked $600 million to connect LaGuardia to [...]

SAS is offering great fares from New York or Chicago to Helsinki (and other cities in Finland) this summer.  Round trip fares in May and August are $600 and $660 for June and July.  Helsinki is beautiful in the summer and it’s close to the cheap ‘n’ fun party-fest in Tallinn, Estonia.  Have fun.

Former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model May Andersen was arrested after she attacked a flight attendant on a Martinair flight from Amsterdam to Miami.  No word on what set her off, but I imagine she’ll be pretty pissed off when she sees the photo on the page I linked to.  In any case, the government is [...]

The NY Times has a disturbing article reporting that Airbus is considering a version of its A380 with standing room seats.  Yes, seats where you cannot sit down.  In theory, this would only be available on short-hop flights in, for example, Japan (Japanese airlines currently deny interest in these scheme).  Unsettling, yes?  The article also [...]

After posting an expected loss for the quarter, JetBlue announced that it will defer delivery of 12 airplanes and sell between 2 and 5 of their current aircraft.  This is a huge change for the once-high-flying company that took the bold step of ordering a large number of planes just a couple of years ago.  [...]

Have your plans to visit Greenland been thwarted because there are no nonstop flights from the US?  Well, you won’t be able to use that excuse anymore (feel free to use all of the other excuses).  Beginning in May 2007 (yes, 1 year from now), Air Greenland will introduce nonstop service from Kangerlussuaq (say that [...]

Thanks to the OTR reader who passed along one of the crazier travel mix-up stories I’ve seen.  An American business traveller on the way to Taiwan is mistakenly booked to Taiyuan, China, where he’s forced to sleep in a brothel.  Perhaps that will make sense if you read the story here.

American Airlines gave away 20,000 tickets to fans who attended the Dallas Mavericks’ last game of the season last night (it’s actually 19,000 people at the game and 1,000 in a related promotion).  Pretty cool — fans didn’t learn about the free tickets until they arrived at the game.  There is one catch, though:  the [...]