You may remember that British Airways has announced its intentions to launch a new airline that would fly from continental Europe to JFK.  Well…not so fast.  With the FAA trying to reduce congestion at JFK, they plan to ask foreign carriers to alter schedules to alleviate the late-afternoon rush at the airport.  This move would [...]

A judge has ordered Mesa to pay $80 million to Hawaiian Airlines after finding that Mesa engaged in unfair competition with the island carrier.  In short, it was alleged that Mesa feigned interest in the then-bankrupt carrier to gain information that they then used to launch their own intra-island airline (Go!).  Mesa, which has placed [...]

First off, this is the OTR’s 2,000th post, which seems crazy to me.  Think of everything else I could’ve been doing over the past few years.  Sheesh.
Singapore Airlines has gently suggested that passengers who have booked their first class suites (that include a double bed) on their A380s not have sex in the bed.  Says [...]

An odd little tidbit from this month’s ATW Magazine (sorry, no link).  The article is all about the new head of the airline, but almost as an aside it mentions that back in 2000 Air China had more than 100 subsidiaries.  Those associated companies included a carpet factory and a fish farm. 
(Similarly, in a [...]

(Thanks to Upgrade Travel Better for this:)
You can read the original post for the details, but basically you can now convert 25,000 Continental OnePass miles (which is worth 1 r/t domestic flight on Continental) into 3 free flights on Southwest by converting the miles into Choice Hotel points (and then moving them around from there).  [...]

After a series of crash landings (without major injuries), SAS has decided to remove their 27 Q400s from service permanently, an unprecedented move (as far as I know).  The decision came after SAS suffered its 3rd crash landing involving Q400s in a month.  The Q400 has been hailed as a quiet prop plane with great [...]

It’s rare to hear airline execs (or executives anywhere, really) talk openly about problems they’re experiencing, which is why this is rather refreshing:  A US Airways president said that the operation of their international flights from Philadelphia have been "very bad" because of congestion at the airport’s gates.  Sure, he was saying it because the [...]

Not much to write about today, so I’ll pass on something you won’t care about:  EasyJet is purchasing former British Airways partner GB Airways.  The small carrier primarily flies to leisure destinations in Europe and North Africa, and EasyJet will use the purchase to strengthen their holiday flights out of Gatwick (the purchase does not [...]

A pilot with the Norwegian airline Widerøe has quit because he said he was tired of the "security madness" in the airports.  Pilots on the short hops flown by the airline may pass through security 10 times a day.  A different pilot for the carrier caused a flight delay last week when he refused to [...]

After posting a surprisingly nice profit last quarter, JetBlue announced that it was dropping all flights to Columbus and Nashville.  The airline said that its loads on the flights were OK (if slightly below average) but that the yields (average fares) weren’t acceptable.  JetBlue has dropped cities before (Atlanta very early on, and Santo Domingo, [...]