When it was announced that Singapore Airlines’s regional carrier SilkAir would be merged into Singapore Airlines itself, I was bullish on the move. Sure, I was concerned that Singapore was pushing SilkAir too far upmarket to prepare for the merger, but consolidating under a single premium brand made sense. As …
Month: November 2018
Long Beach Airport should be a desirable place to fly. After all, it’s only 20 miles down the (admittedly traffic-choked) 405 freeway from LAX, and it provides a far better passenger experience. But historically, Long Beach just hasn’t performed well for any airline. Recent history has been dominated by JetBlue, …
Southwest travelers who fly to, from, or through Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) have been waiting for this day for years. The airline’s renovations in Terminal 1 are officially done later this week. The airline took me around on a tour a couple weeks ago not only to give me …
I’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving, so this is my last post of the week. I’ll be back with more on Monday.
You may have noticed I haven’t put up a trip report in awhile. That’s because I just haven’t been traveling, and you know what? It’s been glorious. I broke that …
Let’s take a trip way back to February 2013. Right around the time that the American and US Airways merger was announced, I headed out to Florida for a media day with Farelogix. If you had told me then that just over five years later, the company would be …
Tickets now on sale for Alaska Airlines flights out of Paine Field – Seattle PI
After long battles commercial air service is finally coming to Paine Field north of Seattle. Alaska put its flights on sale for travel beginning Feb 11. This in itself is midly-interesting news, but wait, did …
Last week, Alaska released its first Saver (aka Basic Economy) fares into the wild in three test markets for travel in a 10 day window between December 6 and 16. Presumably Alaska didn’t want to test this over the holidays when less experience travelers are flying. Let’s see if it …
Singapore Airlines re-launched its nonstop flight from Los Angeles to Singapore on November 2, and I headed over to LAX for the festivities. Before you start thinking this is a trip report, let me stop you. I didn’t go anywhere. (And that’s a good thing since the inaugural had a …
I recently wrote about American CEO Doug Parker’s view on why things are on the right track at American, but that’s certainly not a view shared by many these days. There seems to be something wrong with American, but it’s hard to figure out exactly what that is.
Certainly …
This week’s featured link
American Elevates Corporate Customers During Disruptions – FlightGlobal
I was critical of American for rolling out a change to how it reaccommodates passengers recently. (They won’t put non-elites on non-partner airlines.) Now, apparently, they’ve realized this policy sucks… but they’re only fixing it for corporate customers …
There was a big acquisition announced this week north of the 60th parallel when Icelandair said it would pick up its rival WOW Air for very little compensation. If the price is any indication, WOW was in dire straits, and its owner Skuli Mogensen may have been lucky to get …
It’s been well over a year since Etihad pulled the plug on its failed Alitalia experiment. That left Alitalia — officially known here as the worst airline ever — without a lifeline as it hemorrhaged what precious cash it had left. The airline was living on borrowed time with cash …