As you settle down into your seat, comfortably at the front of the plane (above) or squeezed into the last inches at the back (below), you must have sometimes wondered how the airline chose the plane you’re sitting in or why the schedule…
Say goodbye to this much space as Boeing plans to squeeze the toilet to install more seats. Photo: Kristoferb / Wikimedia
Map of theoretical search areas for MH370. New technology would track planes every 15 minutes A new system that will “ping” flights every 15 minutes, and could have helped located missing flights such as last year’s Malaysia MH370, is on the…
Passengers waiting for delayed flights Photo: Wikimedia / Tony Hisget Passengers claiming compensation for flight delays under EU rules are finding themselves still delayed or denied in receiving the…
It’s hard for a traveler to tell what’s going on sometimes in the pot-calling-the-kettle-black wars of the air travel industry. We’ve covered elsewhere the dispute between the legacy airlines and the Gulf carriers over subsidies and “Open Skies.”…
A number of industry consultants and some airline executives believe that Europe’s airlines, including numbers of its “flag” national carriers, need to consolidate to grow (or reach) profits. They point to the experience in the U.S., where…
The more it becomes clear that inflight Wi-Fi is what passengers want, the less clear it is just how much will be available and how much it will cost. Airlines are switching—with costs involved—to satellite based services from vendors such…
A Liverpool judge, ruling in a test cast that may affect thousands of British travelers, has ordered airlines to stop delaying compensation they are owed for canceled or delayed flights.
Thousands of flights, mostly to and from Northeast destinations have been cancelled because of the Sunday, Feb. 15 storm that will heavily affect already-affected airports including Boston, the 3 NYC airports and more. But that’s not the end of…
The U.S. Department of Transportation has reported that “tarmac delays”—incidents in which passengers are kept on the plane during long take-off delays—hit their lowest total since rules fining airlines for allowing them went into effect…
As you settle down into your seat, comfortably at the front of the plane (above) or squeezed into the last inches at the back (below), you must have sometimes wondered how the airline chose the plane you’re sitting in or why the schedule…
Say goodbye to this much space as Boeing plans to squeeze the toilet to install more seats.
Map of theoretical search areas for MH370. New technology would track planes every 15 minutes A new system that will “ping” flights every 15 minutes, and could have helped located missing flights such as last year’s Malaysia MH370, is on the…
Passengers waiting for delayed flights Photo: Wikimedia / Tony Hisget Passengers claiming compensation for flight delays under EU rules are finding themselves still delayed or denied in receiving the…
It’s hard for a traveler to tell what’s going on sometimes in the pot-calling-the-kettle-black wars of the air travel industry. We’ve covered elsewhere the dispute between the legacy airlines and the Gulf carriers over subsidies and “Open Skies.”…
A number of industry consultants and some airline executives believe that Europe’s airlines, including numbers of its “flag” national carriers, need to consolidate to grow (or reach) profits. They point to the experience in the U.S., where…
The more it becomes clear that inflight Wi-Fi is what passengers want, the less clear it is just how much will be available and how much it will cost. Airlines are switching—with costs involved—to satellite based services from vendors such…
A Liverpool judge, ruling in a test cast that may affect thousands of British travelers, has ordered airlines to stop delaying compensation they are owed for canceled or delayed flights.
Thousands of flights, mostly to and from Northeast destinations have been cancelled because of the Sunday, Feb. 15 storm that will heavily affect already-affected airports including Boston, the 3 NYC airports and more. But that’s not the end of…
The U.S. Department of Transportation has reported that “tarmac delays”—incidents in which passengers are kept on the plane during long take-off delays—hit their lowest total since rules fining airlines for allowing them went into effect…
