2 moderate profile international flight suspensions I thought I’d pass along:
Air France will cancel its nonstop service from LAX to London Heathrow – without any major SkyTeam hub on either end, and quite a bit of competition, it was a non-starter.  Instead, it will fly a codeshare with Delta from London Heathrow to JFK, essentially [...]

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 [...]

Delta will create a first class cabin on its Shuttle flights between Boston, New York and Washington, DC, beginning in December (US Airways’ shuttle already has a first class cabin.)  The flights will also feature in-flight broadband once that service is rolled out.  While Delta would obviously not introduce first class service if they didn’t [...]

As you’ll no doubt see elsewhere, Delta will begin offering in-flight wi-fi on its MD-80s later this year, with their entire domestic fleet outfitted by mid-2009.  The service will cost $9.95 for flights under 3 hours and $12.95 on flights longer than 3-hours – not terrible when you think about it.  Also on the plus [...]

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 [...]

Delta has changed their frequent flyer program to a new 3-tiered system that, as you probably guessed by now, does not mean you’ll be using fewer miles for award tickets (details here).  In short:  they’ve added a 3rd tier that now has last-seat availability for 30-50% more miles than the old top tier.  If you’re [...]

Flight attendants on a Delta from from LA to Atlanta this morning noticed that the restroom door was locked when they were landing.  This is usually not a good sign.  They discovered that a passenger had died in the bathroom during the flight.  Luckily Delta only charges a fee for the second dead passenger.

I have no idea whether this is true, and something about it smells funny, but in this post from the Consumerist, a Delta passenger with muscular dystrophy says that Delta employees made her crawl off a plane to make her connection because a wheelchair couldn’t be located.  Dunno…

You probably thought the days of 7-hour onboard delays were over.  You were thinking wrong.  Passengers were stranded on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to JFK on Sunday for about 6 hours when the captain told them that they would not be taking off that day.  It then took another hour to get everyone [...]

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 [...]