Delta has gone in a different direction that American. Total widebody seats climbed from just shy of 33,000 to more than 46,000. Where did this come from? It’s pretty simple, actually. The 18-strong ...

Southwest extended its schedule from early March to early April last week. Sure it included a new city — Knoxville — but the real news was buried in the weeds. Even though capacity is basically flat ...

The airline’s total unit revenue (TRASM) rose 4.8 percent vs Q2 2024, and its revenue per passenger flight segment was up 7 percent from $108.46 to $116.05. That’s as close as we can get to having ...

Blocking the middle seat is doable on some airlines – USA Today It’s a time-honored tradition to try to find ways to get more space on airplanes. This is something of a basic primer on the idea ...

And that brings us to the first category. These three routes have flown before, but they ended with the pandemic. Setting aside MIami – Milan which is just connecting more dots, it was Budapest and ...

Alaska continues its metamorphosis into a premium global carrier today by announcing a couple of new routes as well as a new livery that will apply only to the B787 fleet. The airline is really trying ...

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

The news that activist investor Elliott has taken a greater than 10 percent stake in Southwest Airlines has been the talk of the town this week. The more discussions I’ve had with people about this — ...

American has decided that the way it sells travel through third parties and to companies in general is broken, and it has launched a risky effort to completely remake the space. If this works, Delta ...

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.

On the surface, it looked like American and JetBlue had a strong case to continue their partnership, but in a 94-page ruling released Friday, Judge Leo Sorokin painted a picture of ineptitude. He ...