Sure, I could have used the extra 500 miles in my quest to get Alaska Airlines status, but it wasn’t worth the extra cost. I downloaded the Frontier app before I left home, because I wanted to make ...

American loses nine-ish gates — depending upon how they are configured for regionals or narrowbodies — on G, almost the entire concourse, and then gains the three gates at the top of the L-stinger for ...

There’s no question that SkyWest is the clear market leader, but Republic has long been a number two. It always had an ace — it holds a lot of those slots at congested northeast airports itself, so ...

The end result here is that there’s a ton of capacity in this market that’s chasing what is likely to be declining demand. The difference in this market is that the capacity coming in isn’t really ...

I left my house an hour and a half before departure, and it took 30 minutes to get down to John Wayne. Then, I made a rookie mistake. I followed the signs to parking which went to the upper roadway, ...

I have never cared about elite status, not even a little bit. Would an upgrade be nice? Sure, but I don’t travel enough to have high enough status to think that I’d ever actually get one. And I’m not ...

Yes, Adelaide is flashy and fascinating considering that it’s a smallish city on the southern coast of Australia. For the people of Adelaide this is huge news. I’m just wondering if United can ...

This is a two-part series looking at airline credit cards. Today, we look at how it all works. Then tomorrow, we’ll ponder what happens if it all goes away. The airlines in the US have developed into ...

This is the second in a two-part series looking at airline credit card deals. See this post for part one which explains how the ecosystem works. The biggest US airlines are making billions of dollars ...