I have absolutely no idea what you’d do with it, but someone is selling a 727-200 on eBay.  It’s not in flying condition, but it’s a steal with a buy it now price of only $100,000.  Here are some photos of the plane in better times when it was flying for Northwest and Sunworld.  If [...]

(Thanks to reader Tom for the heads up):
Interesting story about JetBlue entering the JFK/BOS – Pittsburgh markets.  Average fares were cut nearly in half which, you’d think, would drive people to fly JetBlue.  But in the end, US Airways, which had been ripping people off for years, lowered prices and ended up carrying 125 additional [...]

(Thanks to Frommers for the heads up):
Still looking for that cheap vacation to Paris?  You probably won’t beat this:  Tourcrafters is offering a 3 night package to Paris, including air from New York and room at the Holiday Inn Bibliotheque for a ridiculous $389.  The price is good November 15 through March 15 (excluding Xmas [...]

Passengers on a Continental flight from Amsterdam to Newark last week said that service stunk – literally.
A problem with the toilets caused the flight to stop in Shannon, Ireland, overnight as mechanics tried to fix the issue.  The flight re-departed the next day, but the plumbing backed up again,  leaving only 1 toilet working for [...]

Zoom Airlines launches service today between New York (JFK) and London Gatwick, and fares are quite cheap.  They seem to start at about $77 to London and $199 back — about $435 including all taxes for summer travel.  That’s about half what others are charging.  Premium Economy fares (about 36" of legroom) are in the [...]

American Airlines recently announced that it will launch nonstop flights from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Minneapolis, a route that is dominated by Northwest.  In a petty and vengeful move, Northwest just announced that they will launch nonstop flights from LaGuardia to Dallas, a route dominated by American Airlines.  The beauty of this is that [...]

AirAsiaX, the lowfare long-haul carrier from the folks at AirAsia, will launch in September with flights to as-yet-unannounced cities that will probably include Manchester, England, Kuala Lumpur, 2 cities in China and a city or two in Australia.  Fares will start at $10 each way and average about $300 round trip.  While the initial launch [...]

Spain’s Clickair has said that come the end of June, it will eliminate the need to check in for its flights out of Spain.  They haven’t announced details, but they said it will be called something like "click and fly" and not involve using a mobile phone.  Interesting.  Don’t expect anything similar here for some [...]

Be glad you weren’t flying British Airways last weekend:  The carrier said that because of staff shortages, they managed to lose 6,000 bags.  But fret not, the thousands of bags are being shipped to Milan (?) where they’ll be sorted out and returned to their rightful owners.

Following in the footsteps of Skybus, Britain’s Flybe has banned passengers from bringing their own food on board their planes.  A spokesperson says that the move was done to protect passengers with food allergies (specifically, peanut allergies).  This doesn’t explain why they sell peanuts on board.