Airlines free to squeeze some more, Congress won’t act
April 9, 2016
Get ready for another possible round of airline seat-space shrinkage, as the major airlines and the ultra-low-costs have a race to the bottom to squeeze
Get ready for another possible round of airline seat-space shrinkage, as the major airlines and the ultra-low-costs have a race to the bottom to squeeze
Virgin America takes top spot in the latest annual quality ratings. For all airlines, 3 categories showed improvement, but complaints rose anyway.
Today was the deadline for U.S. airlines to put in their bids for rights to fly regular air service to Cuba, and they’re jumping in with both feet.
After over 50 years, scheduled air service between the U.S. and Cuba will resume, as early as this fall, under an agreement signed yesterday.
Looks like 2015 may prove to be an all time record profitable year for the airlines.
This is the weekend that no one can escape news about Star Wars; it’s all the media, social and otherwise—and TravelGumbo is no exception. Since we’re a travel site, that’s the focus of our round-up. Last month we reported on Air France’s plan to premiere the new movie, The Force Awakens on Paris trans-Atlantic flights Thursday night, just as the film was opening in major cities. The special trip with the tiny-screen film included tickets to a giant-screen showing in Paris the next…
In the 40-some years since Britain got its first female commercial airline captain, the numbers on the meter have hardly budged; only 3 percent of the world’s pilots are women, and in Britain just under 6 percent. At a time of worldwide pilot…
A few weeks ago, United Airlines seemed poised to make some big changes, with a new CEO on-board, Oscar Munoz, from rail giant CSX. Munoz acknowledged that United, one of the Big-3 legacy airlines, has struggled since its 2010 merger with Continental,…
This week has seen a number of airlines announcing new service and expanded capacity on routes foreign and domestic.
Despite weakening considerably during Saturday, Tropical Storm Erika appears increasingly likely to give Florida grief early this week, and airlines are offering customers with flights in and out of the area a waiver of fees on changes based on the…
Get ready for another possible round of airline seat-space shrinkage, as the major airlines and the ultra-low-costs have a race
Virgin America takes top spot in the latest annual quality ratings. For all airlines, 3 categories showed improvement, but complaints rose anyway.
Today was the deadline for U.S. airlines to put in their bids for rights to fly regular air service to Cuba, and they’re jumping in with both feet.
After over 50 years, scheduled air service between the U.S. and Cuba will resume, as early as this fall, under an agreement signed yesterday.
Looks like 2015 may prove to be an all time record profitable year for the airlines.
This is the weekend that no one can escape news about Star Wars; it’s all the media, social and otherwise—and TravelGumbo is no exception. Since we’re a travel site, that’s the focus of our round-up. Last month we reported on Air France’s plan to premiere the new movie, The Force Awakens on Paris trans-Atlantic flights Thursday night, just as the film was opening in major cities. The special trip with the tiny-screen film included tickets to a giant-screen showing in Paris the next…
In the 40-some years since Britain got its first female commercial airline captain, the numbers on the meter have hardly budged; only 3 percent of the world’s pilots are women, and in Britain just under 6 percent. At a time of worldwide pilot…
A few weeks ago, United Airlines seemed poised to make some big changes, with a new CEO on-board, Oscar Munoz, from rail giant CSX. Munoz acknowledged that United, one of the Big-3 legacy airlines, has struggled since its 2010 merger with Continental,…
This week has seen a number of airlines announcing new service and expanded capacity on routes foreign and domestic.
Despite weakening considerably during Saturday, Tropical Storm Erika appears increasingly likely to give Florida grief early this week, and airlines are offering customers with flights in and out of the area a waiver of fees on changes based on the…