The AP is reporting that American Airlines will move to an a la carte pricing model in 2009, mirroring the pricing scheme that Air Canada has had in place for about 5 years.  You will complain initially, but in the end you will agree with me that it’s the best option.  The short version is [...]

Delta Air Lines, which will soon be launching in-flight wi-fi, says that they will block offensive content from their service.  American Airlines flight attendants raised the issue when that airline said they would not block any sites.  So, to sum up, if you want to watch porn while surrounded by 180 other people, American is [...]

I’ve seen a bunch of articles this morning suggesting that Qantas has canceled its plans to offer Internet access on the A380 due to fears that passengers will spend the whole flight surfing porn (American Airlines flight attendants are asking the airline to put filtering software on their Internet service.  For its part, the airline [...]

A New York man is not particularly happy with American Airlines after the airline apparently shipped the body of his recently deceased wife to Guatemala City. His anger stems from the fact that he sent the body to Guayaquil, Ecuador.  Oops.  The husband is suing the airline.

For some reason a TSA inspector decided to check out 9 American Eagle aircraft on the ground a O’Hare overnight on Monday and in the process managed to damage 9 planes and cause 40 flight delays.  From reading this thread at Flyertalk, the TSA shouldn’t have been out there on the first place.  But they [...]

Ryanair is taking a rather harsh stand against so-called Screenscraping Sites that search its site for fares.  The airline now says that it will cancel the tickets of anyone who books through a third-party site that screenscrapes.  As it would be rather difficult for you (the traveler) to know how a third-party site is accessing [...]

USA Today once again published the list of the 25 most delayed flights, and (quite impressively) two flights were delayed every single day.  Well done.  American’s flight 1639 from JFK to San Juan was delayed 100% of the time at an average of 2 hours and 8 minutes (bueno!) and Comair 5292 from Minneapolis to [...]

No stories from us on Friday as we head to beautiful, incredibly-hard-to-get-to Springfield Illinois.
My only airline-related note about this trip is that I am flying American out of Newark on a reward ticket and I wanted to change my flight to depart from LaGuardia (American allows you to change reward tickets for free if you’re [...]

We’re in airline earnings season, and we’ve seen the first few airlines post what most newspapers are reporting as giant losses.  But look beyond those headlines of billions of dollars of red ink and you’ll see that most of those losses are one-time non-cash charges, and that Delta actually posted a nice little $137 million [...]

An odd one:
Passengers waiting for their American Airlines flight crew to arrive for their flight to New York from Miami apparently became hostile and began to boo the crew when they arrived at the gate an hour and fifteen minutes after departure time.  The crew became increasingly upset at the passengers and decided they wouldn’t [...]