It’s said that Greenland is icy and Iceland is green, but it’s also said that neither nation’s airline flies to Baltimore anymore (I think my introductions are getting more desperate).  Just months after Icelandair departed BWI for the final time, Air Greenland announced that it will quit its summer service to Baltimore after only one [...]

I’ve been pretty mesmerized by the Eliot Spitzer story, so I wanted to at least point out the one travel-related note found in the indictment against the people running the prostitution agency.
Spitzer agreed to pay $4,000 plus travel expenses for four hours of his companion’s time.  The travel expenses included hotel, food and train fare [...]

Just picking up on a thread on Airliners:  I was shocked to see that Qantas charges $25,000 for a round trip first-class ticket from New York to Sydney.  Perhaps you knew that, but I had no idea you could spend that much on a commercial flight.  Carry on…

Qatar Airways announced that it will likely start all-first class service on some medium haul routes out of Doha by the end of the year.  No decision has been made yet on the aircraft, but they’ll be outfitted with Qatar’s ridiculously nice first class product.  SilverJet and Eos have both launched (or plan to launch) [...]

ATA announced that after 16 years it will end all scheduled service at Chicago Midway airport by June, with domestic service being phased out in April.  Their acquisition by Southwest, fuel costs, blah blah blah all led to the conclusion that their aircraft are better served on charter routes.  They’ll continue flying from the West [...]

The OTR staff is headed to Kiev and Amsterdam for a few days — posts may be limited if the ol’ Internet connection is slow.  See you on Monday.  Or Tomorrow.

You may remember a few months ago that Virgin said it would take advantage of new open skies treaties and launch flights from Europe to the US.  Not so fast, buster.  Richard Branson said yesterday that they will hold off on that until 2011 or so, as they can’t secure the aircraft they need to [...]

You may have already seen the amazing video (here) of a Lufthansa A320 attempting to land with some very strong headwinds (well worth a look).  Der Spiegel is now reporting that the 24-year old co-pilot was at the controls during the landing attempt.  Having the co-pilot land is certainly not unusual, so don’t believe any [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that in June Singapore Airlines will launch all-business class service between New York and Singapore and LA and Singapore.  How will they accomplish this?  Brilliantly — they’ll keep the same A340 aircraft they currently use and strip out the economy seats, leaving only 100 business class seats for the [...]

Finally, a great idea from the TSA: They agency is testing a go-at-your-own-pace security line at Salt Lake City’s airport (and will soon roll it out in Denver as well). Basically, you self-select into 1 of 3 lanes, either beginner (or traveling with family), intermediate or expert. Essentially, frequent business travelers would [...]