The airline seat wars will take another step up as Singapore Airlines has announced that they will upgrade seats on their 777-300ERs (these upgrades were scheduled for the A380, but since Singapore is now rumored to be considering dropping the A380, here are the seats).  First class flyers will enjoy a 23 inch LCD screen [...]

SkyEurope, a central European airline, will pay you to fly.  Yes, the European budget airline wars are getting slightly nutty, with SkyEurope charging -1 Euro for flights.  With taxes and whatnot, it won’t be -1 Euro, but you get the point.

Go-Today is offering a cheap 4 night air/hotel package to Beijing from the west coast (LA, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland) for just $699 for travel in January and early February.  This price is several hundred dollars cheaper than air alone.  Departures from New York are just $110 more.  Sure it’s cold there in January, [...]

(Thanks to View from the Wing for the heads up):
The NY Times (reg req’d, sorry) has an interesting article about the Essential Air Service program, which provides subsidies for airlines to fly to remote airports across the country.  Lewiston, Montana, is one of these remote airports, and the airline serving it received, get this, $472 [...]

British Airways has suspended an employee because, gasp!, she was wearing a small cross on a chain while she was working.  BA has said that its policy is that all employees must wear jewelry, including religious symbols, under their uniforms.  OK fine.  As you might imagine, there is a bit of an uproar over this [...]

Via Travelzoo:
Emirates Airlines has a great deal on airfare to Hamburg on its new nonstop flights from JFK:  for $346 round trip, you get a ticket PLUS either a night at the Hamburg Marriott, or 3 days car rental.  The Marriott is usually $200, so this is a steal.

This is an odd one:  An Indian Airlines flight attendant was approached by company officials prior to boarding a flight she was working.  They asked her to step aside and get on a scale.  They believed she was over the company’s 63kg (138 pounds, or so) weight limit.  Turns out she was, and they fired [...]

Delta and Northwest have both announced major international expansion plans yesterday, with Delta, especially, continuing to shift its strategy toward higher yield, lower competition routes.
Delta will begin service next summer from Atlanta to Prague, Vienna, Seoul and Dubai, while they’ll begin service from JFK to Pisa and Bucharest around the same time.  Delta briefly (very [...]

Good news for Delta flyers:  The airline announced that it will be the first US carrier to offer fully lie-flat seats beginning in 2008.  Expect to see all of the airline’s 777s and 767s equiped with the new product by 2010 (yes, that’s a while from now).  Assuming they are still in business, you’ll enjoy [...]

Go-Today has a pretty good package from New York to Prague this fall and winter.  For $549 you get a flight and 4 nights hotel good for travel November 1 through March 25th, excluding Christmastime.  The price is about the same as the flight alone — what a deal.