Spirit Airlines is not the only carrier offering $9 fares these days:  JetBlue has jumped into the act, offering "cheeps" through their twitter feed (and available on their website on Monday mornings).  Fares are generally just for the following Saturday (which is not the case with Spirit) and only for ...

...And now, the end is near/and so I face/my final curtain...

British Airways has hired an investment bank to help it sell most of its stake in OpenSkies, the all-premium carrier flying between New York, Paris and Amsterdam.  Most airline-watchers wondered how OpenSkies could work after Eos, MAXJet and SilverJet all ...

A few weeks ago I predicted that nonsensical airline JetAmerica would close up shop in September.  I was wrong - JetAmerica shut down on Friday, citing the inability to get slots at Newark (obviously something they should have considered prior to selling tickets to Newark).  In their defense (sort of), ...

On the heels of the news that they are looking for a buyer, OpenSkies has dropped its Amsterdam routes to focus on Paris, where it has built a nice (though likely not profitable) customer base.  Very sad to see the $1,000 roundtrip business class fares disappear.  Last flights are August ...

Must be a full moon or something:  71 British travelers flying back to Newcastle from Mallorca refused to board a Thomas Cook flight after crew asked them to move seats to help balance the aircraft weight.  A cargo door was broken, causing the airline to load all cargo into the ...

(Full credit for this goes to Mark Ashley at Upgrade Travel Better...thanks for the heads up)

Mark points out a really, really great site for ridiculous airline stories over at the Aviation Herald.  The site appears to report all aviation-related incidents, from mechanical issues (whatever) to passengers acting like idiots (fantastic).  ...

Back in 2007 Delta made a bold decision to expand its international flying signficantly from both Atlanta and JFK.  The theory was that the domestic market was oversaturated, and that there was plenty of opportunity to grow to second (and third-) tier cities and stay out of the way of ...

From what I can tell from other sites, you airline dorks love your trip reports (I mean that entirely with love) with lots of detail about the flights. So I thought I’d pass along this report from my trip last weekend to St. John’s, Newfoundland, with our 3 year ...

A pilot for Arkefly shuttling a tour group from Amsterdam to Turkey kicked the entire planeload of passengers off the plane after about a dozen passengers were misbehaving during takeoff.  A group of the hoildaymakers were running around the plane and sitting in jumpseats during taxiing away from the terminal ...

Saudi newlyweds, returning from their honeymoon in Malaysia, are splitting up after the husband left his wife in a Kuala Lumpur airport and boarded his flight home without her.  Why?  Because he felt she had spent too much time in the bathroom.  Although no one knows how long she was ...