Airlines
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A Day With Alaska Air Group and The Air Show Live Interview
Alaska’s media and investor day was just a few hours, but it seemed much longer. That’s probably because it was action-packed with…
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Alaska Accelerates Into a Competitive Premium Offering
Greetings from Seattle. Today is Alaska’s media and investor day, and the airline is showing us the next step of its “Alaska…
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Avelo Gives McKinney Another Airplane, Four New Destinations
It’s been almost three months since Avelo announced it would start serving McKinney (DTX) to the northeast of Dallas. It has not…
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Tulum Has Been Such a Failure That Even Aeromexico is Leaving
When the Tulum airport opened in late 2023, hopes were high that it would become a boost for the fast-growing tourism business…
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San Diego is a Tougher Fight for Southwest
Might as well close out this week of SoCal posts with a look at the airport that’s the Southernmost of Cal, San…
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BUR – Burbank, LAX – Los Angeles, LGB – Long Beach, ONT – Ontario, SAN – San Diego, SNA – Orange County, SouthwestSouthwest’s Southern California Shifts
Southwest has come to dominate in Southern California, as we learned yesterday, but the airline has changed a lot in the last…
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How Southwest Came to Dominate Southern California
When people talk about the airline industry in California, you’ll hear about all the airlines fighting at LAX or United’s dominance in…
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After a Rough Start, Hawaiian Did Things Right… Mostly (Trip Report)
After a hurried run through the Big Island thanks to losing a day from our previous fiasco getting to Hawaiʻi, I was…
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American Should Prioritize Latin America With Its A321XLR Fleet
With American recently announcing its European-focus for the deployment of its A321XLR, I couldn’t help but wonder if this is the best…
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JetBlue’s BlueFirst Will Be an Instant Money Maker
JetBlue has had a fantastic premium product for more than decade, Mint. The problem is, Mint is a fully-flat bed that doesn’t…
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United’s CEO Is Partially Right But Unrealistic About the Dual Chicago Hub
It’s a day ending in “y” so nobody should be surprised that United CEO Scott Kirby is making news once again. This…
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American’s Modest Summer 2027 Plans are Out
Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts You want more on American? Brian Sumers and I go in-depth this week on the…