Death may occasionally take a holiday, but it rarely warrants an airport discount anymore. The once-standard discount for grieving relatives booking last-minute flights for the funeral, memorial service or burial of a loved one has been reduced to an anomaly in recent years. American Airlines and United stopped offering bereavement fares, which were a discount…
With an estimated 3.3 billion people traveling on about 27 million flights annually, there have been many sudden deaths aboard planes. Link
JetBlue Airlines and Southwest Airlines deliver the best customer experience in the airline industry, according to the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual ranking of companies based on a survey of 10,000 US consumers. Link
One of the biggest misimpressions about the free market is the mistaken belief that corporate interests support free competition. While companies will raise their voices at regulations and mandates that drive up the cost of their doing business, corporate interests love government interference in the market when it gives them a leg up against their…
An Etihad Airways Boeing 777-300ER has been given a touch of Hollywood as part of a partnership with Universal Pictures. Link
Aviation is a male-dominated career field in both the commercial sector and the military. Female Marine aviators recently took advantage of an opportunity to show young women and men that military aviation is a viable option. Link
Frontier Airlines, which has expanded rapidly in Phoenix and other cities, is raising its baggage fees in May. Link
View from The Wing reports that American and Delta is having a business class fare war going on to Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo out of each others hubs. American is attacking Delta fares out of: Atlanta [ATL] Detroit [DTW] Minneapolis [MSP] Delta is attacking American fares out of Dallas [DFW] Los Angeles [LAX]…
Air India hosted a job fair earlier this week in hopes of filling at least some of the 197 vacant pilot spots for its Airbus fleet, alone. Not a single applicant showed up. Not. One. Air India’s shortage of cabin crew is well known. The problem is so severe that it’s faced frequent flight delays…
If the complex satellite system that supports our country’s global positioning system ever goes down, there’s no backup. Link
Quite a menacing sight coming up through the darknes. An F-22 Raptor receives fuel from a KC-10 Extenderover the U.S. Central Command area of operations, while supporting air strikes in Syria. Link