Greece’s very troubled flag carrier, Olympic Airlines, will disappear for good this fall, when it is replaced by a new company called Pantheon Airways.  Olympic Airlines, which used to be called Olympic Airways, was on the brink of bankruptcy brought on by a huge illegal subsidy it received from the Greek government that it was [...]

I have no idea how I have not heard of boardfirst.com until now.  For $5 they will check you in for your Southwest Airlines flight and ensure that you get a coveted "A" boarding pass, which allows you to board first.  This is absolutely brilliant.  So brilliant that Southwest is suing boardfirst.com and a few [...]

JetBlue is launching service from JFK to Aruba with a $99 fare good for travel between September 15 and November 14.  Book by June 30 for this great deal.  Regular fares will start at $129, though JetBlue’s fares have crept up over the past 6-12 months or so (good for them, bad for consumers), so [...]

Two retired Philadelphia cops were caught in a rather brilliant scheme where they would hang out at the airport and buy fully refundable tickets on sold out flights.  They would then try to get bumped off the flight (and earn a free flight voucher).  If they weren’t bumped, they just got their money refunded.  I [...]

After being called to task for flying on Queen Elizabeth’s planes for his annual vacation to Italy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew his family on Ryanair.  Instead of costing taxpayers GBP 16,000 (about $30,000 or so) for the trip, the Ryanair tickets cost less than GBP 49 each way.  Nice savings.  Blair’s family was [...]

If you’re like me, you wake up every single day wondering what the hell is happening with Virgin America.  You’re not like me, I hope.  But if you are, there’s a bit of an update:  they’re not going to launch until at least early 2007.  Continental Airlines has filed complaints against Virgin America, suggesting that [...]

In the growing list of musicians banned from airlines, the Babyshambles are now banned from flying easyJet.  Why?  Glad you asked.  Lead singer, former boyfriend of Kate Moss, and heroin addict Pete Doherty was suspected of shooting up in an easyJet bathroom on a flight to Spain.  The airline claims that the singer (or "singer" [...]

I rarely talk about airline financials (12 months of data times God knows how many airlines = I can’t be bothered), but since I still get questions about whether Delta is going to go out of business I thought I’d let you know that Delta posted an operating profit in April (excluding reorganization charges).  This [...]

One of my favorite fare comparison tools, Farecompare.com, has introduced a new feature that lets you see airfare trends over time between 2 cities.  In other words, if you search for, say, New York to Atlanta, you can look at the average airfares by month for the past year and see whether you’d be better [...]

Thanks to Travelzoo for the heads up:
Delta is offering a $358 round trip fare from New York to Manchester, England (England, across the Atlantic Sea, as they sang in HAIR) good for departures through July.  You can return through the end of August.  This is about half what is costs to fly anywhere else in [...]