The pilot on a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Hyderabad, India, spent several hours trying to find a place to land because he was never told that a new airport had opened that day in Hyderabad.  Upon approach to Hyderabad’s old airport, he was told that the facility was closed and flew to Delhi to [...]

A group of Skycaps in Boston are suing American Airlines for the tips they’ve lost since the airline instituted a $2-a-bag fee for curbside check-in.  The Skycaps say they used to make about $200 a day in tips (whoa), but that’s been cut back to about $70 a day, as most passengers assume they get [...]

When lowfare carrier go! launched service in Hawaii with $19 fares, many people were saying that in the end it will drive other airlines to bankruptcy while go! would never make any money.  Those people were correct.  go! has been losing money and, for the 2nd time in 3 years, Aloha Airlines has declared bankruptcy.  [...]

One small additional piece of info about JetBlue’s new added-legroom seats:  although they’re likely meant to attract business travelers, the seats are not available for sale through travel agents (which is, of course, where many business travelers must purchase their tickets).  This is not the fault of JetBlue (it’s the fault of the GDSs, the [...]

Indonesia’s government has finally stepped in and grounded sketchy carrier Adam Air.  An incident where one of their planes skidded off a runway last week was the 3rd incident they’ve had in the past 18 months.  The airline’s president said, bizarrely: “We are having an internal problem that could affect our employees’ morale and performance [...]

As my mother reads this website, I’ll just say this:  A woman is suing American Airlines because the passenger in the seat next to her was doing something to himself that people typically don’t do in public and the resulting aftermath was reminiscent of a scene in There’s Something About Mary.  American denies responsibility, though [...]

JetBlue confirmed that later this year it will begin to charge extra for seats with additional legroom. Planes will not be reconfigured — the airline will now charge more for the first rows on the aircraft and for exit rows. While this is annoying news for people who have enjoyed business class-like legroom [...]

After the success of Jazeera Airways and Air Arabia, Emirates announced that it will launch a low fare carrier to serve the region.  Given the number of expatriot workers in the area, it makes a ton of sense to segment off some of the low fare traffic and allow aircraft to be used on higher [...]

An Air France flight headed to Miami from Charles de Gaulle on Monday sat on the tarmac for, get this, 10 hours on Monday because of a maintenance issue.  Oh, and they wouldn’t let the passengers off because deplaning would have taken too long.  On the plus side, unlike US-based airlines, passengers were fed and [...]

How bad is the fuel situation? Delta just announced that it will offer buyouts to 30,000 staff, or roughly half its workforce, and shrink domestic capacity by an additional 5% this year. They hope to layoff about 2,000 people through this program.
This week they’ve already announced that they’re discontinuing service to a number [...]