US Airways took over American at the end of 2013, and that coincided with the Dash 8s starting to hit the end of their lives. Piedmont was shrinking, and it had no real future unless American wanted ...

When Avelo decided to relocate airplanes to Phoenix/Mesa and operate deportation flights for the federal government, you probably saw the headlines raking the airline over the coals. There were ...

Even on American, most of its traffic heads down south to Dallas/Fort Worth first. These routings are inefficient, and there are a lot of people who are taking them. That suggests that Alaska could ...

United will now get that goofy standalone gate G20 as its own, and presumably the airline will put Newark flights there (next to the Spirit flights, naturally) in order to prevent the rest of its ...

This week on The Air Show, we are talking about JetZero and its proposed aircraft. With the episode just going live — if you don’t see it, keep refreshing — I’m putting up a bonus Thursday post with ...

The worst-kept secret in the industry finally became officialy last week when United and JetBlue announced the launch of their Blue Sky partnership. The headlines were about what I expected, but there ...

Now that JetBlue and United are tying up, when United returns to JFK it will use Terminal 6. This is already where Lufthansa Group, Air Canada, and ANA have committed to operate when it opens starting ...

Thanks to Southwest’s elimination of its differentiators, both United CEO Scott Kirby and Delta President Glen Hauenstein said last week that in competitive markets, Southwest’s customers are up for ...

I talked yesterday about Southwest’s broader plan coming out of its investor day, but today I want to talk about the most significant change, Southwest’s decision to assign all seats and add an extra ...

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.