Airline labor contracts in the US are unique. Unlike in most industries, airline contracts don’t expire; they simply become amendable. This allows labor negotiations to go on for ages, and as ...

This week on The Air Show, Brian leads us in talking about United’s new MileagePlus earning change. Have the credit card? You are important. You don’t? You are not. It’s yet another move away from ...

Spirit’s Fort Lauderdale home will remain important, though it sounds like weakness in Latin America may see that connectivity reduce to some extent. Orlando is also a key city. Other than that? It’s ...

After a short taxi, we rolled into our gate at AIFA. The terminal is a large building with gates in a straight line. Excluding ground boarding and bus gate possibilities, there are 14 real gates with ...

By then, TWA had been taken over by American (in 2001) and despite an early effort to keep the hub going, it only shrank from that point. The hub officially closed in 2009, the same year the Air ...

Mexicana was fine, but the real star of the show was the Embraer E2.

My gate was further down, so I just grabbed a seat toward the base of the concourse and checked email using the free wifi, still having an hour until my flight. I then got up, bought a bottle of water ...

At long last, Frontier has filed its schedules for summer travel. Last weekend we saw the airline roll its end-of-schedule from May 20 to September 8. This is later than I’d have expected to see that ...

It’s time to kick off this Mexican travelogue with a look at how I got across the border in the first place. None of my flights ever touched the United States. Instead, I decided to go down to San ...

After last October’s gate reallocation, the battle lines were drawn at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. United had control of Terminal 1 already and had wrested full control of Terminal 2 away from other ...

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 ...