(Thanks so OTR Swedish correspondent Marcus for the heads up)
Iceland-owned Danish airline Sterling has gone bankrupt, stranding thousands of passengers across Europe (I feel like it’s actually been a couple of weeks since we’ve seen a bankruptcy.  Well done.)  The carrier had flown to 40 destinations across Europe but struggled with higher costs, etc.  The [...]

Someone over at Airliners has posted the copy of an internal memo from the head OpenSkies that sounds very, very, very much like the type of memos we used to see at Eos right when it was getting bad:  They’re not taking delivery of their 5th airplane thereby cutting out any expansion in the near [...]

This is not something you hear every day:  A Jet Airways flight attendant fell out of a 737 at Delhi’s airport while she was trying to close the door to the plane.  She suffered only minor injuries when she fell and landed on her head after she slipped while closing the door.  The airline claims [...]

American is in some sort of pissing match with Continental, because they have a $35 each way fare from Newark to Belize (not good during X-Mas).  Round trip comes to about $145 including taxes.  Crazy!

A bit of a departure today for the OTR…
As some of you know, most of my time is spent running Tripmela.com, India’s only publisher of travel deals (if you know Travelzoo, we are Travelzoo for India – we publish a weekly email newsletter and website with airfare, hotel and package deals for India).  We also [...]

(Thanks to Upgrade Travel Better)
I’m basically including this info solely for my friend Doug, who would be interested (for some reason) in learning how to crash your plane’s in-flight entertainment system.  You can read the geek-heavy answer here.

Just a few months ago there appeared to be a large number of newspaper articles discussing how brilliant Southwest was for hedging fuel prices and then suggesting (at least hinting) that every other airline were fools for not hedging their fuel prices.  Well, it turns out we now know why other carriers didn’t hedge:  because [...]

An Edmonton woman has filed an $85,000 lawsuit against Air Canada after a flight attendant spilled an unspecified hot beverage on her (by accident) during a flight from Vancouver to London.  The plaintiff claims that her “inner thighs and pubic area” were burned when the flight attendant spilled the aforementioned drink.  She also says her [...]

(Thanks, TB)
A little bit of online travel industry breaking news (I believe you heard it here first):
You may remember that American got into a bit of a pissing match with Kayak which led to them pulling their fares from the website. As with just about every other time this has happened over the past [...]

(Thanks, USA Today Blog…)
The Boston Globe has an interesting profile of Cape Air, which serves small cities in the northeast by flying 9-seater Cessnas.  The tiny carrier, which expects to earn a profit on its $70 million operation, has weathered the fuel storm because they have used aviation gas instead of jet fuel – aviation [...]