Topic: Air Travel

Travel in the Credit Crunch

It's no surprise that Americans are traveling less during the credit crunch era. One of the pillars that had been supporting domestic carriers in the downturn, however -- international travel -- is now also showing signs of slowing. ...READ»

Change Management: Globalization is Good

The debate on globalization has been raging since the turn of the century. Economists, politicians, businessmen and social commentators from across the world have judged the merits and demerits of this inevitable 21st century ...READ»

Innovation: Keep 'Em Flying

There's no future in flight if planes have no place to park. Yet that's exactly the future we face, with 14 U.S. airports and eight metropolitan areas needing new capacity to accommodate anticipated growth in air traffic through ...READ»

Innovation: You Don't Need a Crystal Ball

As a follow-up to my most recent blog post about increasing delays among the U.S.'s network carriers, I'd like to note that one of the most accurate forecasters of our current travel woes is Scott McCartney, author every Tuesday of ...READ»

Innovation: Antique Air

America's air-traffic control system lags behind systems already rolled out in other parts of the world. This summer's flight delays have demonstrated all too clearly that our system is too slow to handle today's volume. That's the ...READ»

Innovation: Feds Focus on Flight Fixes

New York City's airports have seen the worst of the worst when it comes to the flight delays that have characterized this past summer. And as we come into the busy holiday season, it appears that there will be more of the same. As ...READ»

Technology: Can Caps Cut Delays?

Now that the federal government is taking action to deal with the chronic delays that characterize the New York City area's air traffic — which accounts for one-third of America's commercial flights — the big question is, will it ...READ»

Technology: Free Market Flying

I guess I shouldn't be surprised the airlines have been fighting tooth and nail over proposals to charge them higher runway fees during rush hours. The idea, called "congestion pricing," is to apply free market incentives that would ...READ»

Sniffing Bombs for Big Gains

InVision Technologies is gaining more than 8 percent this morning in pre-market trading, after announcing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered new CTX 9000 DSi ...READ»

Technology: The Future of Air Travel

As I gaze into what the future holds for air travel, I see that it is undergoing such a vast change that everything will be different in two years and everything will be unrecognizable in five years. I predict that most network ...READ»

Technology: Transparency in Pricing Means Technology in Practice

Fliers increasingly are warming up to the concept of choice, aka à la carte, meaning paying only for those services you want in the airport or on the plane. But going à la carte comprehensively, that is, across hundreds of ...READ»

Business Travail

With airlines such as Southwest and JetBlue continuing to reinvent air travel, it's no surprise that -- in this day and age of airlines charging for in-flight meals -- people are starting to poke fun at low-frills travel options. ...READ»

Work/Life: Fleets Are Shrinking As Planes Are Mothballed

The downturn in air traffic is leading to a major makeover in air carriers' fleets. Flight capacity demand among cargo and passenger carriers has deteriorated faster than expected, according to the IATA (International Air Transport ...READ»

Honeywell's GPS-based Landing Tech Could Save Airlines Billions

The first salvo against interminable flight delays is Honeywell's new GPS-based landing technology. It could also save billions for the airlines.READ»

• Inside the Next-Gen GPS-based Airplane Landing System

How to Fly Right

Continental's turnaround pilot Bonnie Reitz explains how the airline survived the worst year in recent history and emerged victorious with better customer service, a reinvigorated brand, and big plans for the future.READ»

New Rules of the Road

What's it like up there, where legroom and stale peanuts used to be our biggest concerns? How are travelers navigating the new airport restrictions? Do you really need to check in two hours early? Share your firsthand accounts of airline travel today.READ»

Work/Life: Fuel Saving Imperiling Safety?

You may have read that Air Canada's regional airline Jazz has removed life vests from all of its aircraft to save weight and thus get better fuel mileage.  I've read that the reason Jazz can do this is that Canadian regulations ...READ»

On the Road Again?

In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, San Francisco bureau chief George Anders wrote a story assessing what life would now be like for road warriors all over the United States. Then he boarded a plan for New Jersey. Here's his account.READ»

Mystery In The Air

Are you reading this on a plane? You may want to skip the item about how clean that airline blanket really is.READ»

Work/Life: Will Minimum Stays Stay?

Once upon a time the airlines had this rule called the Saturday night stay, and business travelers hated it because it was aimed at them. Earlier this year, when high fuel prices pressured the airlines to find new ways to raise ...READ»

The Future of Air Travel

Get expert insights from Robert Buckman, Director of airline distribution strategy for Amadeus, on how air travel has changed, what trends are catching on, and what changes travelers can continue expect in the next few years.READ»

Innovation: Something About the Weather

The last few weeks you haven't been able to turn on the news without reports of blizzards or some other massive storm clobbering the U.S. and even Europe. To say that bad weather has been taxing on travelers of late would be a gross ...READ»

And Now the Hard Part

Can JetBlue make the leap from popular (and profitable) niche airline to major player -- without losing its soul? Only if it can grow big but stay small at heart.READ»

Shifting Routes In The Airline Industry

At the annual Routes World Development Forum in Kuala Lumpur, 700 airports and 500 airlines begin the mating dance that determines who flies where.READ»

Innovation: A Question of When, Not If

A flurry of news indicates more American carriers suddenly may becoming more receptive to the à la carte pricing strategy pioneered by such non-U.S. carriers as Air Canada. According to a recent article by David Jonas in The Beat, ...READ»