Airlines
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Abra Makes a Push for a Consolidated Brazil
Brazil has always been a fascinating yet incredibly difficult market for airlines. The country is huge, but for years air travel was…
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Breeze Makes a Big Jump Toward Profit in Q4, But It’s Not There Yet
The press release screamed it from the mountaintop: “Breeze Airways Announces First Full Quarter of Operating Profit in 4Q2024.” This is a…
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Cranky on the Web: Breeze Improves, Does EnVe Matter?
RDU rolls out new way to skip long TSA lines – The Business JournalsThis is behind a paywall, but it’s talking about…
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Molokai and Lānaʻi Deserve Better as Air Service Trouble Leaves Them Stranded Again
It’s hard to fathom just how vital air service is to some of the more remote communities in the US, and possibly…
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JetBlue Might Kind of Like Connections Now
JetBlue has been a lot of things over the years, but most of all it’s been a point-to-point airline. It loves to…
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Breeze’s Entry Into New Haven Has Been a Bumpy One
It was November 2021 when Avelo struck gold. The airline went into the recently-abandoned New Haven Tweed airport along the southern Connecticut…
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Air Wisconsin Goes It Alone as American Ends Eagle Partnership
There are a handful of regional airlines that I’m always surprised to find still in business. There’s Mesa, of course, and yes,…
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Delta Makes a Spectacular, Amazing, Astounding Announcement About… Nothing
It is Consumer Electronics Show (CES) week in Las Vegas, so the tech world is abuzz with all kinds of chatter about…
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American’s Terrible Paid Seat Policy Chooses What’s Easy Over What’s Right
It is somewhat remarkable to me just how often certain airlines default to the most customer-unfriendly way of doing business. Before I…
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Condor Quickly Remakes Its Summer Network
Welcome back from the holidays. It’s that awful first day when everyone is back working and nobody wants to be. So, let’s…
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Alaska Optimizes Flying by Retiming A321s and Hubbing Portland
Alaska was busy working on integrating its Hawaiian fleet this past weekend. I should be mad that they dumped all these changes…
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Air Canada Rouge Grows Again, Swaps Its Fleet
Air Canada held its investor day this week, and it had a 162-slide presentation going through all of its plans. While the…