Washington/Dulles will get new 3x weekly year-round service to Dakar plus seasonal flights to Nice and Venice. Houston/IAH will see flights to Puerto Escondido in Mexico. San Francisco will have ...

The airline has really gone big into Southern Europe leisure destinations, and there just isn’t much beyond that. As of now, only one new European destination has been announced next summer (Catania).

I talked yesterday about Southwest’s broader plan coming out of its investor day, but today I want to talk about the most significant change, Southwest’s decision to assign all seats and add an extra ...

Mike is long gone, and the airline knows better than to try to repeat such massive mistakes. So instead of focusing on the schedule this time around, Southwest is trying to physically reduce the time ...

My name is Brett Snyder, and I am the President and Chief Airline Dork of Cranky Flier LLC. I’ve had the airline bug since I was young. I never wanted to fly… I just loved the complexity of the ...

After the US Department of Justice (DOJ) decided to let the Alaska/Hawaiian merger review period pass without saying a word, it seemed like the merger was a done deal. But then, something curious ...

Southwest revealed the full details of its plan — called Southwest. Even Better. — to fix itself at investor day last week. Despite the lame name, it does seem like a thoughtful and feasible plan. But ...

The Rhine River takes a long and lazy trip through Europe from its beginnings in the Swiss Alps. The Alpine Rhine descends from the mountains through a valley to the north, forming the border between ...

Two others decided they wanted to walk for some reason. It was only about a 5-minute ride in a nicely-air conditioned bus to the terminal. We got in line to check in, but there was nobody there. We ...

Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: United is Safe, Spirit’s Ledger — Not So Much ...

Frontier CEO Barry Biffle took the stage at Morgan Stanley’s 12th Annual Laguna Conference last week, and it was all unicorns and rainbows. Barry says that Frontier has been turned around, and while ...