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 ...

Why Cheap Airline Seats Are Getting Harder to Find – The Wall Street Journal (Subscription required) The numbers suggest that fares are starting to rebound for the airlines, but I gave the opposite ...

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 ...

On the surface, it looked like American and JetBlue had a strong case to continue their partnership, but in a 94-page ruling released Friday, Judge Leo Sorokin painted a picture of ineptitude. He ...

American has decided that the way it sells travel through third parties and to companies in general is broken, and it has launched a risky effort to completely remake the space. If this works, Delta ...

There is no LUV for Southwest Airlines management this week as activist investor Elliott has taken more than a 10 percent stake in the airline and wants to fire Chairman Gary Kelly and CEO Bob Jordan.