The fight between Go! Airlines and incumbent carriers in Hawaii is getting personal.  CEO Jonathan Ornstein received a t-shirt from workers at rival airlines that included anti-semitic slurs and "kiss my Hawaiian ass" written on it.  A spokesperson for the group who sent the t-shirt (from an Island Air Fedex account, so it was obvious [...]

21 passengers were injured when their Far Eastern Air Transport 757 had to quickly change course to avoid another plane before landing in Cheju, Korea.  16 passengers and 5 crew members suffered broken bones and other injuries when the plane was forced to avoid a Thai Aiways aircraft.  THIS is why you keep your seatbelt [...]

A woman is suing Delta Airlines and a regional affiliate after she was removed from a flight from Burlington, Vermont, to New York because, she says, she was breast feeding on the plane.  The airline, for its part, says she was not removed for breast feeding, but because she was asked to be a bit [...]

Hoping to capitalize on the success Icelandair has had, Air Greenland will launch nonstop flights from Baltimore to Kangerlussuaq on the west coast of Greenland in May.  It will be the first nonstop commercial flights from the US to Greenland (since Greenland was a refueling stop to Europe a long time ago).  Fares are expected [...]

OK, I’ve thought about this a bit, and I think this is probably a great purchase.  Or a terrible one.  For full disclosure, I own a bit of US Airways stock.  But it’s not like anyone listens to me, so it doesn’t matter what I think.  But here’s what I think.  US Airways basically thinks [...]

Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM, and United will add a feature to their seatback video that will allow you to dock and watch video from your iPod on the plane.  This is cool.  But not as cool as if airlines would install in-seat power for laptop computers, which are used by business travelers, who [...]

A California couple was arrested after a Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix to Raleigh after they refused to stop their, uh, romantic behavior on the aircraft.  Flight attendants repeatedly asked the two people to, basically, get the hell off each other, but, for God knows what reason, they declined.  Did I mention they were drunk?  [...]

India’s legacy carriers have long had a policy of charging foreigners and non-resident Indians (NRIs) fares in dollars, which work out to about 50% more than Indian nationals paid for the same tickets.  India’s low fare carriers did away with this policy, offering the same (unprofitable) low fares to everyone.  Now, in a huge change [...]

The NY Times has an interesting article about the science of boarding an airplane as efficiently as possible.  US Airways is at the forefront, with a complicated "reverse pyramid" approach that I’m not going to bother to explain.  Read the article, it’s good for you.

When airlines announce a sale, it’s often a load of crap.  But AirTran has a real sale for flights through March 1 if you book by tomorrow (November 15th).  Flights start at $19 each way (Chicago to Minneapolis), but there are other great deals ($39 from New York to Akron, $59 from Boston to Florida).  [...]