You may remember a story from a while back where JetBlue, American and Northwest gave passengers’ personal data to the US government. Were you pissed off about that? Well, bad news…Continental, Frontier, and America West all did the same thing. So did the reservation systems Sabre and Galileo (if you booked a [...]

As I’ve mentioned here more than a few times, I am a long-time fan of Continental. Unfortunately, I am beginning to understand why JetBlue, Frontier and others are thriving. I have been loyal to Continental because of their FF program and their onboard service. However, I have been extremely annoyed with the [...]

The New York Times offers a look at United’s attempted emergence from bankruptcy this fall. The carrier’s CEO says that they will exit Chapter 11 by the end of this year with or without the $1.6 billion government loan they’ve applied for.
I’ve mentioned it here before, but I’ll say it again: YOU are [...]

You know it’s a really slow airline news day when the USA Today blog talks about Continental’s codeshare with Maersk Air on flights between Gatwick and Billund, Denmark. Yes, that’s a slow day.
Given that, I’m going to take a minute or so to share what I find fascinating about the current state of the [...]

A NY Times article notes that there is a major airline battle heating up in Philadelphia. During their earnings call yesterday, Southwest said that Philadelphia has brought it the highest level of bookings ever for a new city. Because of that, the carrier is considering increasing the number of flights out of the [...]

In what I hope is a preview of changes to come, Delta has introduced a simplified fare structure for intra-Florida flights. Gone is the labrynthine matrix of fares to get you from Tallahassee to West Palm Beach. Floridians will now enjoy a 4-fare system, with a 7-day advanced purchase, a 3-day, and a [...]

Interesting report out of CSFB yesterday revising profit estimates on American Airlines, now suggesting that they will not be in the black for 2004. This is interesting because the report blames this turnaround on 2 factors: higher fuel prices and excess capacity. Excess capacity, you may be asking yourself? Yes—it seems [...]

The New York Times looks at how smaller airlines are rightfully up in arms at the prospect of United Airlines receiving a $1.6 billion loan guarantee from the federal government. Yes, you read that correctly. $1.6 billion in loan guarantees. I shall now include a hypothetical Q&A session that may answer some [...]

Very, very slow airline news day today.
United announced that it will be dropping two Latin American routes from Miami (Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo) after American announced yesterday that it will be bolstering its Latin American operations from Miami. Not that interesting, but that’s all I got.
Oh wait, no, that’s not all. Frontier [...]

Frontier Airlines announced last week that they are branching out from their Denver hub to launch service from Los Angeles. These flights include a flight to Minneapolis.
Northwest Airlines, which never met a competitor it didn’t hate with a nearly unreasonable vengeance, added MSP-LAX flights and, inexplicably, LAX-DEN. The latter flights were added solely [...]