Spirit Airlines Sticks It To Customers Again, Institutes “Unintended Consequence Fee”

Spirit Airlines is by far one of the biggest nickel and dime operations in the aviation industry, if there's a way for the company to cram in more seats (making flights less comfortable), sell a drink for ... continue

Virgin America Remembers Steve Jobs

Virgin America, a popular flight choice for those in the US, has named a plan in honor of the late and great Steve Jobs. On October 5th, 2011, Steve passed away and left behind a wonderful legacy ... continue

[Op-Ed] Obese Airline Customers Should Pay For Two Seats

Obese people flying via commercial airlines have oft-complained about being forced to pay for a second seat when a single seat option is too small. The argument is typically simple, overly fat customers believe they should only ... continue

Spirit Airlines Uses “Seat-Selling” Sale To Poke Fun At Rod Blagojevich

Just one day after Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14-years in prison for his attempt to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by President Barack Obama, Spirit Airlines has announced a "seat-selling sale." For a ... continue

Family Claims Airline Food Killed Family Member, Files $1 Million Lawsuit

American Airlines and their food provider Sky Chefs are being sued for $1 million by a Miami family who claims that their family member became sick and then died after eating a chicken meal provided by the ... continue

An airline with a hilarious sense of humor – what a switch

I haven't flown on a plane since I was 14 years old so I don't really have any first hand experience with how bad the whole flying experience has gotten but given the ongoing Twitter noise it ... continue

AirTran Airways Now Charging “Customers Of Size” For A Second Seat

AirTran Airways announced on Thursday that they will soon be implementing a "customer of size" policy which requires that customers who can't fit into a single seat with the armrest down buy another seat. The policy comes after ... continue

Ryanair To Remove Bathrooms, Add More Seats

Europe's biggest airline Ryanair is preparing to make their customers flights even more uncomfortable by removing bathrooms from each of their aircraft. According to the company they are asking Boeing to recertify their airplanes after they have removed ... continue

American Airlines will charge $20-40 more for exit-adjacent seats

Every week when airlines introduce a new way to get people to pay for stuff that used to be a standard part of flying since people started putting planes in skies, everyone gets completely scandalized and shocked ... continue

Thousands apply for a flight attendant job

Who would have thought that getting a job as a flight attendant anywhere would be that hard. Well it seems in China it is indeed quite the process to even be considered as being suitable for applying ... continue

PanAm fanatic Anthony Toth redefines brand loyalty with scaled replica of PanAm cabin

To say 42-year-old Anthony Toth is a fan of defunct airline Pan Am is an irresponsible understatement. Toth has drawn media attention for his lovingly detailed reconstruction of a PanAm cabin in his garage, and the Wall Street ... continue

Twitter being used by airlines to sell cheap fares

It is amazing all the different things that Twitter is being used for these days, well beyond the original 140 character chit-chat the founders envisioned. Among those finding new uses for the platform are ... continue

Airlines make a tidy bundle ‘feeing’ us to death

I don’t fly so I can’t speak from experience here but the Wall Street Journal has been looking into some of the extra fees that airlines are charging and how much money those fees, ... continue

Airport Clear lanes crash and burn

250,000 frequent fliers were sent to the back of the line today after the Clear Card abruptly ceased operations. Verified Identity Pass operated the Clear Card, and cited an inability to negotiate an agreement with creditors as the ... continue

Pilots complain the A380 is too quiet

The Airbus A380, the largest passenger jet to grace the skies has many redeeming features, and one of those is unprecedented levels of cabin quietness. Passengers flying the A380 love the quiet, but apparently pilots for Emirates ... continue

Airlines Drop Non-Electronic Ticketing

The final paper airline ticket will be sold this Saturday. The International Air Transport Association is officially ending the use of physical ticketing systems at the end of the month, with the vast majority of ticketing ... continue