Today marks the closing of Oasis Hong Kong, the lowfare airline that promised extremely low prices on flights between Vancouver & London and Hong Kong (service to Oakland was discussed but not launched).  The usual suspects are blamed.  If you were flying Oasis and you’re stuck in one of those cities, Cathay is offering a [...]

Articles are starting to pour in about passengers being stranded by the shutdowns of Skybus, Aloha and ATA, but we should also remember that as we read sarcastic articles about how poorly run (blah blah blah) these airlines were, that workers’s lives have been truly affected by the shutdowns.
I saw in a post on USA [...]

The modern-day US airline industry, which allowed people to fly all over the country for roughly the same price as a couple of steaks at Morton’s, died last week after a long illness. It was 30 years old.
The cause of death was oil. And irrational pricing. And low fare carriers. And [...]

(Thanks, View from the Wing…)
Use your Amex card to buy a Jetblue ticket by May 13th for travel between May 1 and June 18th, and you’ll get $25 off the flight plus 50 True Blue points.  100 points gets you a free ticket, so fly just twice during that time and you’re off for free…

I was just on my way home from an evening out, and I saw on the ol’ OTR phone that Skybus announced that it was shutting down, effective Saturday April 5th after less than a year in the sky. For those of you counting at home, that is the 4th airline to close [...]

(Thanks, View from the Wing)…
You’ll read about this elsewhere, but if you haven’t seen it Naomi Campbell was arrested at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 after she freaked when her baggage was lost.   I can’t be bothered to write any more about her.

Thanks to TJL for the heads up…
Want to help pick up the luggage that was piling up at Hearthrow’s Terminal 5?  You can…in a new little flash game you can play here.  Help BA CEO Willie Walsh load up luggage before the flights take off..and without getting hit by baggage carts.  Fun!

A bit of self-promotion:  I was interviewed for a podcast discussing the fiasco at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 on Innovation Analysis Group’s website.  You can download the podcast here.

The President of Palau, who was heading back to the Pacific Island nation from the Philippines, was not permitted to board his Continental Airlines flight after he refused to allow airline security to frisk him (as it was doing with all other passengers).  He eventually took a private flight back to his home nation.
Oddly, after [...]

It’s been said that celebrities seem to die in groups of three, and so, too, it appears for airlines:  ATA announced that after losing a major military charter contract, it will declare bankruptcy and cease operations.  More than 2,000 people have been laid off from the 35 year old carrier.
If you’re holding a ticket on [...]