Air Travel
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Southwest Testing Out New Boarding Procedure in California
Southwest will begin testing a new boarding and deboarding process at four California airports in an attempt to reduce the amount of time it takes passengers to get on and off the plane. thwest During the testing period, Southwest will open two doors to the aircraft instead of the usual one in front. Travelers will have…
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Southwest Adds New Flights in New York, Washington and California
Southwest Airlines is now flying new routes and more flights from several major airports, including New York LaGuardia, Washington Reagan National and San Jose, California.
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8-Hour British Airways Flight Turned Into a 77-Hour Nightmare
BA flight 2036 was supposed to take off from Orlando at 19:25 ET (00:25 GMT) on Thursday and arrive at Gatwick eight hours later. Instead it arrived in the UK on Sunday, 77 hours later, after going through New York. Passengers have complained of sleeping on airport floors and holidaymakers crying on the “chaotic” journey…
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Icelandair to Buy WOW Air for $18M
WOW Air, the Icelandic budget airline that made travel between U.S. and Europe as cheap as $69 one way, will be acquired by rival Icelandair. The board of Icelandair Group has made a purchase agreement to buy all of low fare airline WOW Air’s stocks. The deal that could make the company a strong force…
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JetBlue Founder Will Start New Airlines With No Competition
JetBlue founder David Neeleman will start a new airline. The new carrier isn’t expected to start flying until 2021, but it could be a groundbreaking business model in the aviation business. Neeleman’s planned carrier will use a fleet of single-aisle Airbus A220-300s. The planned airline is currently using the name Moxy, but he said that is likely…
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Turkey Opens New Airport, Soon to Become Biggest in the World
A new $11.7 billion airport outside Istanbul opened today. Officials say will be one of the world’s busiest, though delays mean it will not be fully operational until January.
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Air France Will Let You Sell Your Non-Refundable Ticket
Air France will soon let customers sell their non-refundable tickets. An Air France initiative that serves as a marketplace for the resale of non-refundable tickets, Paris-based startup FlexFly was founded in April 2018. The website, which is not yet live, allows those who have purchased a non-refundable ticket for a flight they can’t make to put…
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TSA PreCheck Adds Norwegian and Icelandair
TSA PreCheck announced that three more airlines have joined the program. The new carriers eligible for the program are European airlines Norwegian Air and Icelandair and small U.S. regional carrier Via Air. With the additions, 56 domestic and international airlines are now part of the PreCheck program, which is available at 200 airports. The program rose past…
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10 Things You Need to Know About Frontier, Spirit and Other Ultra-Low-Cost Carriers
Flying with ultra low cost carriers might not be for everyone. But there’s plenty of instances where these fares will provide everything you need and will save you tons of money.
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Cathay Pacific Reveals Data Breach, 9.4 Million Passengers Affected
Cathay Pacific Airways revealed today that data of about 9.4 million passengers of Cathay and its unit Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Limited had been accessed without authorization. Cathay said 860,000 passport numbers, about 245,000 Hong Kong identity card numbers, 403 expired credit card numbers and 27 credit card numbers with no card verification value (CVV)…
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$1.6B Renovation Of American Airlines Terminals is Underway at LAX
Last week, the $1.6 billion renovation of the American Airlines terminals at Los Angeles International Airport got underway. The upgrades projected over the next 15 years by American Airlines include unified passenger check-in and baggage claim areas, improvements to the check-in facilities in Terminal 5, centralization of the terminals’ security screening checkpoint and connecting the terminals on…
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Canadian Ultra Low Cost Carrier Swoop Delays U.S. Debut
Swoop had planned to begin flying to the United States this month. It would have made it the first Canadian ultra low-cost carrier to fly in the US. But now at least two dozen of Swoop’s first U.S.-Canada flights have been canceled because regulatory approvals have taken longer than expected. “We apologize to our travelers affected…
