This week on The Air Show, I took a break. Actually, I had a schedule conflict, so Brian and Jon did a good Ryanair episode without me. And despite what Brian says, I have no plans for an episode ...

As of now, the higher level remains Wanna Get Away plus. That becomes just Choice when the new seating plan rolls out. But Southwest is hoping that the promise of a credit valid for 12 months, the ...

We’re going to go old-school today with an Across the Aisle transcript of an interview I did with TAP Air Portugal’s. I was supposed to do this in person on the day of TAP’s inaugural LAX flight, but ...

The Cranky Cockpit – feat. Brett Snyder – The Indian #AvGeek Vishal Mehra had me on his Indian-focused podcast, and we talked about that market along with much more. It’s a really interesting region ...

We had to choose whether to fly Long Beach to Oakland and have the longer drive on that end or LAX to Santa Rosa and do the longer slog up front. It was more expensive, but in the end, we chose Santa ...

Contour is a Part 135/380 regional operator that is partially owned by Skywest. It has been growing its fleet of 30-seat regional jets, and it now serves a surprising number of cities. It looks like ...

As of now, there is no Basic tier in any of the other cabins, but there is Classic and there is Extra. The attributes are exactly the same as in Delta Main except that there is no priority boarding in ...

The way that airline cabins are named all seems rather silly to me. After all, what years ago was First, Business, and Economy has now become Business, Premium Economy, and Economy. It’s not all that ...

We’ve been talking about American’s strategy in New York for a very, very long time. The airline is undersized, and there is no clear solution. It briefly hoped it solved its problem in New York with ...