American Airlines is implementing a $15 fee to change your seat if you call the airline to make the change. The carrier says it is just putting its fee structure in line with other airlines (not sure if this is entirely true). There’s no fee if you make the change on their website or on [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: $15 to Change Your SeatRyanair executives say they are working on a transatlantic budget carrier that will allow people to fly between New York and Europe for 10 Euros (about $13.50). The carrier hopes to be flying within 3-4 years. While this seems completely insane, 10 years ago it would’ve seemed insane that an airline was giving away seats [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: $15 Flights Between Europe and New York?Jet Airways, which has about 1/3 of India’s airline market share, will purchase Air Sahara for $340 million. If this sounds sorta familiar, it’s because Jet Airways was going to buy them last year for about $500 million, but decided at the last minute to pull out because they felt their bid was overvalued. Yes, [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Jet Airways Will Buy Air Sahara…AgainSkybus has said that they’ll be the first US carrier to cover its airplanes in advertising, and they seem to be keeping their word: photos are out of the first A319 which is covered in an ad for Nationwide insurance. European and Asian lowfare airlines have done this for years, but its the first US [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Skybus Unveils First Advertising LiveryAfter a long absence, Southwest Airlines will have honey roasted peanuts again for the rest of 2007. Yes, sweet nut fans, you’ll be happy to know that the King Nut company has found a way to make honey roasted nuts for the same price as dry roasted nuts. Really. The most interesting thing in this [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Breaking News: Honey Roasted Peanuts Are Back on SouthwestAny time a fare drops below $20, I’m going to post it (except for those wonderful but nearly impossible to get $8 or $.08 Spirit fares):
Continental has $19.50 flights from Newark to Buffalo or Rochester ($60 round trip, including taxes). Get them while they’re still available.
I’ll give credit where it’s due: After bagging a bit on MAXjet for their miserable reliability, they’ve turned things around a bit. The Cranky Flier has a good (email) interview with a MAXjet exec where we learn that, indeed, they HAVE filed their financial data that I’ve complained they haven’t filed (they don’t know why [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: MAXjet Shapes UpIf you were excited to fly Emirates because they were going to allow you to speak on your cellphone during the flight, you are a schmuck. But not only are you a schmuck, you are out of luck (that was not meant to rhyme). For now. Emirates has postponed its launch of onboard cellphone service, [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Emirates Postpones Onboard Cell Phone ServiceA small white mouse delayed a Vietnam Airlines flight to Tokyo for 4 hours as technicians attempted to "seek and kill the mouse," as one newspaper put it. Unlike in the US, they actually took the passengers off the plane and sent them to a hotel during the mouse-search. Passengers were relieved to hear the [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Mouse Delays Flight 4 HoursA Northwest Airlines pilot was removed from a Detroit-bound flight at Las Vegas airport after he was swearing loudly onboard. A bit more detail: he was overheard swearing while talking on a cellphone in the cockpit. After passengers complained, he started yelling (and cursing) at passengers. Police were called in and removed the pilot (though [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Pilot Removed from Flight for Swearing