Delta has gone in a different direction that American. Total widebody seats climbed from just shy of 33,000 to more than 46,000. Where did this come from? It’s pretty simple, actually. The 18-strong ...

Southwest extended its schedule from early March to early April last week. Sure it included a new city — Knoxville — but the real news was buried in the weeds. Even though capacity is basically flat ...

The airline’s total unit revenue (TRASM) rose 4.8 percent vs Q2 2024, and its revenue per passenger flight segment was up 7 percent from $108.46 to $116.05. That’s as close as we can get to having ...

Blocking the middle seat is doable on some airlines – USA Today It’s a time-honored tradition to try to find ways to get more space on airplanes. This is something of a basic primer on the idea ...

And that brings us to the first category. These three routes have flown before, but they ended with the pandemic. Setting aside MIami – Milan which is just connecting more dots, it was Budapest and ...

There is still substantial mainline flying, but that is focused on the big cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and more recently, San Diego. Fun fact, outside of those big cities plus Seattle and ...

From Choice Preferred to Choice Extra, the upsell appears to be $50 or, oddly, only $40 for international flights. That comes with ELR seating, two checked bags, even more Rapid Rewards points, a free ...

Saturday was another successful Cranky Dorkfest, our biggest yet. Thank you to everyone who came out to LAX, and for those of… Continue Reading: For Those Who Didn’t Attend, Here’s What You Missed at ...

The news that activist investor Elliott has taken a greater than 10 percent stake in Southwest Airlines has been the talk of the town this week. The more discussions I’ve had with people about this — ...

Reading through financial filings can be a tedious task. American’s 10-Q for the third quarter of 2023 clocks in at 211 pages, and most of that is only of interest to the finance types. But there was ...

I talked yesterday about Southwest’s broader plan coming out of its investor day, but today I want to talk about the most significant change, Southwest’s decision to assign all seats and add an extra ...

You said you wanted to hear more tales from our experiences at Cranky Concierge, so here I am with another round. I’ve written here at length about American’s big sales transformation where it slashed ...