Hi all,
I’m moving my blog over to a new platform (with the Boarding Area group of blogs run by the Flyertalk guys…)  The blog will basically look the same, and the address will still be Onlinetravelreview.com, but the feeds are going to change.  If you read this via a feed, please visit http://www.boardingarea.com/blogs/onlinetravelreview/feed to grab [...]

Although it’s still pretty unlikely, United would consider dropping out of the Star Alliance if it was necessary to complete a merger, according to this article.  United also would consider withdrawing from the Star Alliance, the
global marketing consortium it co-founded, if needed to close a deal.
"You can assume that absolutely everything goes into the mix [...]

Ryanair announced an increase in the fees it charges for checking luggage to GBP 6 (about $12, $13 if you pay in Euro).  The carrier has said that it will keep increasing bag check charges until 50% of passengers only use carry ons.  They also increased the fee to check in at the airport to [...]

Two quick notable route cancellations:
Air New Zealand is dropping its thrice weekly service between Nadi, Fiji, and Los Angeles in April so it can use aircraft on more profitable routes.  Codeshare partner Air Pacific will pick up 2 of those frequencies, bringing their number of weekly flights to 6.  Air Pacific isn’t as comfortable as [...]

For you airline distribution nuts out there (?):  Lufthansa is now charging German travel agents 30 Euro ($60) for the right to sell a Lufthansa round trip flight.  Why would you care about this?  Because if this catches on, we could start to see discriminatory fares (ie, you’ll pay up to $60 extra) when you [...]

Someone on Airliners.net has put up an interesting post about Skybus’ average fares by market.  I mentioned a couple of weeks ago how their yields were terrible; now we have some detail on that.  Average fare between Columbus and Kansas City was $25.  Only the Oakland route had an average fare above $100.  Sure, they [...]

This will affect roughly zero of you, but Norway’s 4th largest airline (now THAT’s a tagline!) Coast Air has declared bankruptcy and canceled all flights.  The airline was founded in 1975 and flew to 8 cities in Norway and handful of international destinations (Gdansk, anyone?)

Go!, the upstart airline in Hawaii that managed to really piss off Aloha and Hawaiian, just announced that they lost $20 million in their first 16 months of operations.  In case you had been wondering how an airline could make money charging $19 to fly between Honolulu and Lihue, you were correct to wonder:  they [...]

The AP is reporting that Delta Air Lines is insisting that, should it merge, the new airline will have the Delta name and be headquartered in Atlanta.
I’ve often said that there’s some truth in every rumor, so I don’t doubt that this issue has come up, but do you really think they’d kill a multi-billion [...]

The union representing flight attendants for Thai Airways demanded the cancellation of a Thai television show called "The Air Hostess War" that featured a plot about a Thai Airways flight attendant having an affair with a married pilot.  The union says the program showed flight attendants in "an unrealistic and immoral light…It’s all about sex [...]