Spirit has proudly taken the lead on challenging couplings in the past, most notably the NEA. That fight resulted in an impressive act of juggling since it was just shortly after that it agreed to be ...

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 ...

Once in the air, we hung a right, and climbed to cruising altitude. I had somehow forgotten my noise-canceling headphones, and man, it is so loud in the back of that airplane on climb. That’s ...

Occasionally, AA still runs internationally-configured tag flights through DFW, mostly on 787s, though sometimes 777s. There’s usually 1-2 per day to/from LAX and ORD, though the times vary. If you ...

There is simply too much capacity on US-Australia and US-New Zealand flights, particularly out of LAX and United only has itself to blame. The number of seats in the market is unrealistic and ...

There isn’t an easy way to categorize each of these terminals and their functions, but I’ll try my best. Terminal 1 is an international terminal with some strange bedfellows thanks to airlines jointly ...

There is no LUV for Southwest Airlines management this week as activist investor Elliott has taken more than a 10 percent stake in the airline and wants to fire Chairman Gary Kelly and CEO Bob Jordan.

Good analysis – thanks for sharing! Two additional thoughts: 1) I think they’re gonna get they’re lunch eaten on connecting traffic. I live in one of those small grey dots (so we’re pretty used to the ...

SEAN – It really just depends how you use the gates. You could turn a lot more quickly if you use the gates for 50-seaters than for an A321neo, but that also determines how many gates you can fit into ...

On the heels of announcing the retirement of its MD-88 and MD-90 fleet on June 2, Delta has now announced that its 777s will leave the fleet by the end of the year. This is the kind of change that ...

When we look back in the distant future, I think we’ll remember today as the day that Southwest died. No, it is not going out of business, but its entire value proposition — everything that made it ...