Pack well if you’re going to fly on Spirit Airlines: The carrier will begin charging $10 for the second bag you check and $100 (yes, $100) for the 3rd bag. Leave those bulky sweaters at home…
Read the Rest of the Story: Spirit Airlines Will Charge $10 For Second Piece of LuggageYou may read stories today about an "alliance" between JetBlue and Ireland’s Aer Lingus. Read the details. This is not a typical alliance — there’s no code sharing, for example. Rather, each airline will put a link to the other on their website. That appears to be it. For whatever reason, people are very excited [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: JetBlue Alliance with Aer Lingus?Hi all,
Just a quick note to let you know that the Upgrade Travel Better blog has created a Travel Blog award they’re giving out to a handful of travel blogs voted on by its readers. Well, I’m not asking you to go vote or anything, but if you had any desire to vote for the [...]
Travel Weekly has a pretty good article about Austrian Airlines’ new flights to Erbil, Iraq, in Kurdistan. Several airlines have tried to avoid competition and lower fares by flying to underserved cities (think Delta’s new flights to Ghana and the Ukraine), but this is a huge leap past that. Without the competition to Erbil, Austrian [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Austrian Airlines’ Iraq StrategyExpressJet, which used to fly under the Continental Express banner, has launched its own airline (called ExpressJet, of course). Pay no attention to the Independence Air debacle that happened when Atlantic Coast Airlines did the same thing. Not important (they say). What is important is that you can now fly nonstop from Omaha to San [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: ExpressJet Launches Own AirlineYou may remember that American Airlines had a bit of a tiff over distribution costs with Expedia, resulting in American pulling its international flights and domestic business class flights from the online travel agency. Well, they’ve kissed and made up and all of those fares are back up on Expedia.
Read the Rest of the Story: American and Expedia Make UpI’ve finished up my project at Eos, so I feel a bit more comfortable talking about MAXjet now.
A couple of suspicious things have happened over in MAXjetville…
– The MAXjet forum over at airlinequality.com is well worth a read. It would appear (unless ALL of those people are lying. And they’re not.) that they constantly [...]
You may remember that JetBlue is in the process of removing seats from its planes to give the first 11 rows of seats 36" of pitch. As said before, well done. But they are also considering holding some of those seats for higher paying passengers, effectively creating a first class area. It’s not a done [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: JetBlue May Reserve Good Seats for High Paying PassengersJust another run-of-the-mill lawsuit: A woman is suing JetBlue because it refused to let her board after she asked a flight attendant for a plastic bag to vomit into (yes, I know, dangling preposition. Sue me too.) I’m sure there’s more to the story than that, but the NY Post isn’t bothering to report it.
Read the Rest of the Story: Woman Sues JetBlue Because She Had to Vomit