With the network air carriers pulling service to mid-tier-city airports around the U.S., air service from private terminals is filling the vacuum in places like Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
USA Today reports that SeaPort ...READ»
As the news site Anna.Aero points out, route reductions are providing opportunities for some airlines to expand and others to cut back.
The overriding issue derailing airline recovery especially in the U.S. is, of course, oil. ...READ»
The next time you are toot-tooted aboard a cruise ship, come prepared with more than just your swimsuit: The à la carte revenue model that has swept the airline industry may be coming to a cruise line near you.
Perhaps a ...READ»
George Mason University's Kenneth Button, a professor of public policy, calls an airline basically "a bus with wings."
In the same Travel Weekly article in which Button makes that assertion, he also points out ...READ»
The unpopularity of American Airlines' $15 first-checked-bag fee is stimulating the creative impulse in marketers who want to tap into travelers' desire to get some relief from the airlines' expanding list of fees.
While ...READ»
Terry Trippler is absolutely "right on" in his quote in a recent edition of USA Today in which he says "This isn't nickel-and-diming. It's survival."
Trippler is talking about the American Airlines $15 ...READ»
American Airlines may rediscover in the most unwelcome way possible that the Law of Unintended Consequences is not only alive and well, but probably was invented in an airport terminal.
In fact, American may end up erecting a ...READ»
And then there was one.
L'Avion is the last of the pure business-class airlines still flying.
Silverjet, which flew the London-to-New York and London-to-Dubai routes, died last week. Although officially they are still in ...READ»
A recent Orbitz poll says business travelers "don't feel the need or desire to be connected at 30,000 feet."
But don't count me among the nearly six in 10 who prefers to keep the air up there a refuge from the ...READ»
While business travel has taken a hit from the recent up tick in ticket prices, increase in air traffic congestion and a decrease in passenger comfort, I see mobile technologies as one ray of sunlight on the road warrior's ...READ»
Lower earnings among major U.S. airlines have led some carriers to resurrect revenue-generating strategies — I call them "segmentation tactics" — that essentially penalize business travelers more than other ...READ»
So the U.S. Congress is rebating us up to $600 of our own money to help stimulate consumer spending and pull us out of the recession.
So if it's every road warrior's patriotic duty to use his rebate to fire up the economy, here ...READ»
I have to admit I wasn't aware the extent to which commercial air traffic shares the sky with military air traffic — and how long ago those lanes in the sky were laid out. But Scott McCartney, a pilot himself, knows all about ...READ»
If you had the impression that airlines were going the extra mile in "tailoring" services to the needs of their customers, the news that German travel agency OssiUrlaub.de has dreamed up a nude flight shouldn't come as ...READ»
