It’s not too late to take advantage of GoToday’s 6 night air/hotel package from New York to Prague.  $599 gets you 6 nights hotel, airfare, and breakfast.  This is about the same as a flight alone.  Nice.  Book by March 19th and depart by March 25th.

It was early yesterday when I read about Spirit Airlines, so I missed the most important piece of news buried in their press release:  Soda and coffee will now cost $1, and checked bags will cost $5 if done in advance online or $10 if done at the airport.  In return, Spirit has said they [...]

In an event that’s becoming all-too-frequent, a 737 crashed in Indonesia yesterday, killing 23 passengers.  The Gardua aircraft overshot the runway on landing, possibly because a tire blew out (video available here).
Indonesian airlines have had several crashes in the past year or so, causing the government to ban its airlines from flying aircraft more than [...]

An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was accused of sexual assault after a woman said that he sat next to her on an overnight flight, lifted up her shirt and touched himself.  And not in a good way.  The employee was taken into FBI custody after the flight landed, and he’s been suspended from his job.
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Spirit Airlines has quietly downgraded its business class product to something it’s calling  "Big Front Seat."  Basically, you get a business class (ish) seat with no frills.  Considering how cheap it is (NYC to Florida round trip can be in the $400 range, or less), it’s still a great deal.  But I thought you’d want [...]

US Airways switched its reservations system over to the America West SHARES system (unimportant detail) over the weekend and suffered some serious complications at Boston, Charlotte and Philadelphia (kiosk checkin didn’t work).  Switching a reservations system is a major undertaking (having just gone through this on a much smaller scale), so you can cut them [...]

I just wanted to give AirTran a giant bucket of credit for chartering a plane for the famlies of the Bluffton University baseball team who were killed or injured in the horrible bus accident last week.  A couple of other airlines have also stepped up and offered flights to Atlanta for family members, but AirTran [...]

Former next-President-of-the-United States Al Gore and two staffers were permitted to skip passing through security at Nashville’s airport on Wednesday.  An American Airlines employee led Mr. Gore and his group past security, only to be seen by an airport official who (correctly) made them go through security.  Gore reportedly had no complaints about having to [...]

I’m not really in agreement with him, but Patrick Smith’s Ask The Pilot column at Salon this week suggests that we all may be worse off if a passenger bill of rights is implemented.  It’s worth a read because after he wrote a great column last week about why the JetBlue situation happened, his readers [...]

Good news if you fly in coach on American Airlines and you had a lot of Diet Coke:  the airline has changed its rules to permit coach passengers to use first class lavatories (except on flights into the US, where security regulations prohibit it).  No more standing in line in the back while the first [...]