Airline labor contracts in the US are unique. Unlike in most industries, airline contracts don’t expire; they simply become amendable. This allows labor negotiations to go on for ages, and as ...

This week on The Air Show, Brian leads us in talking about United’s new MileagePlus earning change. Have the credit card? You are important. You don’t? You are not. It’s yet another move away from ...

Spirit’s Fort Lauderdale home will remain important, though it sounds like weakness in Latin America may see that connectivity reduce to some extent. Orlando is also a key city. Other than that? It’s ...

After a long approach from the north over farms and industrial structures, we touched down on one of the three runways at Aeropuerto Internacional Felipe Ángeles (AIFA), my first day of flying had ...

By then, TWA had been taken over by American (in 2001) and despite an early effort to keep the hub going, it only shrank from that point. The hub officially closed in 2009, the same year the Air ...

My gate was further down, so I just grabbed a seat toward the base of the concourse and checked email using the free wifi, still having an hour until my flight. I then got up, bought a bottle of water ...

Mexicana was fine, but the real star of the show was the Embraer E2.

Whew, and just like that, the 2026 Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport are done. We had another… Continue Reading: The Winners of the 2026 Cranky Network Awards ...

You may have heard that news that former American Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja has been hired by United Airlines to temporarily run its Kinective Media group as part of a larger shake-up in ...

If Memphis was Northwest’s way of getting geographically beyond its core hubs, Cincinnati did the same thing for Delta but in reverse. Delta was already strong in the south with the impenetrable ...