Following 60 years in business, Aloha Air will end passenger service today after seeing repeated losses once Mesa’s go! entered the market with fares that were cheap and completely unsustainable. Aloha saw competitors come and go over the years (Princeville Airways? Mid-Pacific Airlines?), but the combination of high fuel and $19 fares meant [...]

You can read the full story here, but suffice it to say that when the TSA workers at San Jose’s airport did not realize that a MacBook Air was a computer, they caused a guy to miss his flight while they discussed whether it was a computer.
(Thanks to longtime reader D-Lux)

I’m almost (almost) getting tired of these ridiculous TSA stories. Oh wait, no I’m not:
A woman was forced to remove her nipple ring when she tried to board a plane in Lubbock, Texas. You can read the story for the details, but really, what does it matter other than a woman had to [...]

JetBlue’s founder David Neeleman announced that he has raised $150 million and ordered 36 Embraer aircraft to launch an as-yet-unnamed airline in Brazil.  Neeleman hopes to get the Sao Paulo-based carrier off the ground in early 2009.  If you speak Portuguese, you can check out his site about the airline here.  If you do not [...]

Eos Airlines’ press release touting its new service from Newark to London-Stansted notes, “With up to 58 flights per week serving these two capital cities, you’ll be sure to find the schedule that best suits your individual travel needs.”
Um, what is Newark the capital of?  Essex County?

A federal appeals court has overturned New York’s law requiring airlines to provide food and toilets during a long flight delay.  If it makes you feel better, the court said that the idea of the law was good, but that only the federal government has the right to pass such legislation.  Don’t look for Congress [...]

Mark Ashley over at UpgradeTravelBetter is once again running the Travvies, a bunch of awards for travel blogs.  He’s looking for nominations, and if you like Online Travel Review, it will only take a second to click here and write in the comments that you’d like to nominate this site for best single-author travel blog.  [...]

A Lufthansa flight made an emergency landing in Katowice, Poland, after a drunk, Russian-speaking passenger made a ruckus on the flight and started screaming that he was a terrorist (one could argue that getting drunk and screaming that he was a terrorist actually does make him a terrorist.  But that’s neither here nor there.)  The [...]

Skybus’ founder and CEO Bill Diffenderffer has stepped down amid strategy changes at the carrier, leaving the airline’s CFO to run the show.  Diffenderffer raised the capital to start Skybus and launched the airline last year.  But, as we’ve discussed here more than was really necessary, the initial strategy was flawed from the beginning.  That [...]

Not sure if you knew, but pilots are permitted to carry guns on their planes.  I only know this because a pilot’s gun discharged on a US Airways flight from Denver to Charlotte over the weekend.  The airline has not released further details on how the gun went off, but they have taken the plane [...]