From that point on, Honolulu seats declined and Neighbor Island seats soared. It really changed gears before the pandemic when Southwest entered the market. That momentum carried the Neighbor Islands ...

Delta quietly posted on its airline partner page that its loyalty partnership with Hawaiian Airlines will be ending on June 30. This is no surprise, but it would seemingly put a little hole in Deltaʻs ...

Once in the air, we hung a right, and climbed to cruising altitude. I had somehow forgotten my noise-canceling headphones, and man, it is so loud in the back of that airplane on climb. That’s ...

There is simply too much capacity on US-Australia and US-New Zealand flights, particularly out of LAX and United only has itself to blame. The number of seats in the market is unrealistic and ...

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.

UA has a row with the port side seats being regular pitch and the starboard seats in the same row being extra pitch on the Max -9s. This is due to the mid-cabin lav replacing row 7 on the port side ...

Reading through financial filings can be a tedious task. American’s 10-Q for the third quarter of 2023 clocks in at 211 pages, and most of that is only of interest to the finance types. But there was ...

SEAN – It really just depends how you use the gates. You could turn a lot more quickly if you use the gates for 50-seaters than for an A321neo, but that also determines how many gates you can fit into ...

When we look back at the various merger integrations in the 2010s, AA did the worst job IMO of picking their hub winners and losers. DL and UA did a nice job of consolidating redundant regional ...

Two weeks ago, the rumors began to swirl. American Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja was out. Or he was at least taking a leave of absence. Or he was working from home. Something was going on, and ...

All of this, it is hoped, will come together to give Southwest an extra 5 minutes of slack. Naturally, this won’t all happen right away. It’s not as easy as just throwing up RIDS at every gate one ...