In 2024, Dulles had a cost per enplanement (CPE) of $12.88 which is actually a couple dollars less because there is money from both Dulles and Washington/National that goes into a pot which can be ...

This airline was technically flying for Merpati, an Indonesian airline that is long gone. Unlike in the book, Merpati provided the flight attendants, and they slapped a sticker on the airplane. But ...

You can see in the photo what looks like one of the original mobile lounges. These would transport people from the terminal to the gates. Planemates would actually take travelers right to the airplane ...

When we look back in the distant future, I think we’ll remember today as the day that Southwest died. No, it is not going out of business, but its entire value proposition — everything that made it ...

In the past, we’ve seen airlines seemingly shut down out of nowhere. Spirit was not that airline. After years of declining fortunes, the airline went through two bankruptcy stints and a near-herculean ...

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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 ...

Late last year, American brought in Nat Pieper from, well, from right down the hallway where he was CEO of the oneworld alliance to come in and take over as Chief Commercial Officer. American had been ...

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 ...

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 ...

We were barely into 2008 when AlpiEagles became the first airline of the year to shut down. To be honest, I don’t know much about these guys, but if I couldn’t include Alitalia, I had to at least find ...

United made it easy for me this week. The airline held its big media day right in my background at United’s hangar at LAX, and it was quite an event filled with a ton of news. We talk about the ...