Avianca, the flagship carrier of Colombia, announced an order for 10 787s. Later this week, Air Canada will be picking up its first Boeing 777, which will kick off its wide-body modernization program. Over the next two years, Air Canada will receive 19 777s, as well as 45 100-seat Embraer 190s. Delta announced service from…
The head of the Port Authority has stated that Stewart Airport in the Hudson Valley will not become New York’s fourth area airport even though the Port Authority will be running the airport. He stated that Stewart would never be the scale of the other airports, although it may eventually hit four million fliers a…
The Associated Press reports that a United flight from Chicago to Portland, Oregon was diverted to Salt Lake City on Friday after Kenneth R. Bullard of Jacksonville, FL attacked his son during an argument about the son’s girlfriend. Bullard had been drinking before and during the flight, and the flight attendants had to restrain him.…
The Chicago Tribune reports that on Saturday, a United flight, UA907, bound from Chicago to San Francisco, was left on the ground for seven hours before the pilots finally cancelled the flight. This comes after the Jetblue meltdown and in the midst of pressure and threat of federal action. At the last minute, the plane…
After USA Today wrote of United abandoning passengers this past December, they were contacted about a similar incident on February 8th. A United Express and an American Connection flight, both heading to Denver from Madison, Wisconsin and St. Louis were abandoned in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Both Scottsbluff and Cheyenne are currently only served by turboprop service…
USA Today reported today on an incident that took place in December. One forgets, with Jetblue dominating the headlines, that other carriers are guilty of shocking neglect. Two planeloads of passengers were shocked to discover that they had been abandoned. On December 20th, at 9:32AM, United Express Flight 7529, with 59 passengers onboard lands in…
United Airlines has stopped offering snacks on flights of less than two hours in duration. The move is expected to save the carrier around $650,000 each year. American did the same thing on flights of less than an hour and a half in 2005.
On January 14th, Julie and Gerry Kulesza and their daughter Ella were removed from an Airtran flight from Ft. Myers to Boston. Ella refused to take her seat before takeoff, and the flight was delayed fifteen minutes already and the crew made an operational decision to remove the family. The Kuleszas think that Airtran went…
The Seattle Times has a good compilation of policies on getting a credit for future travel if the price goes down on your ticket. Here is the summary from that article. Alaska Airlines/ Horizon Air: Travel voucher good for one year for the difference in fares, minus a $10 service charge. Northwest Airlines: Two options:…
United announced today that it will amend its mileage policies for its frequent flyer program. Miles that are in accounts that are inactive for eighteen months will expire. United does this in the hope that their “most loyal customers will compete with fewer people for award seats, making it easier for them to redeem.” However,…
United announced today new service from its Denver hub to Dayton, Ohio(effective April 24); Kalispell, Montana(effective June 7); Huntsville, Alabama(February 14) and resumption of service to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina(effective April 24). Dayton service will be operated by 70-seater CRJ7s, twice-daily service to Kalispell will be with 50-seater CRJs. Starting April 1, Frontier Airlines will offer…
United is considering reducing service once more at Miami International Airport. United was once the second-largest carrier there after American Airlines, the current dominant carrier, and even competed to Latin America, with flights as far south as Brazil and Argentina. At the height of service in 1993, they had 45 daily flights from Miami. United…
USA Today reported that United has won the China bid, beating out Continental, American, and Northwest. The service will begin March 25, from Washington-Dulles to Beijing, China, operated with a three-class Boeing 747 aircraft. Next year, US carriers will be able to apply for another set of flights of China. This new bid will not…
Reuters reports that airline passengers will soon be able to connect their Ipods to in-flight entertainment systems as Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM, and United will offer Ipod seat connections for viewing and charging. Apple’s Ipod dominates the digital music player market, and thus an Ipod charger would be a popular item on planes.…
In several press releases issued over the last day, the various airlines have weighed in on the benefits of their proposed China routes. We briefly touched on the issue in a previous post. United Airlines commented in their press release that a Washington-Beijing service would link the two capitals, and would be the first China…
The Associated Press reports a passenger on United Flight 890 Tuesday night from Los Angeles to Washington Dulles tried to open the door of the aircraft and had to be restrained by other passengers and air marshals. Unlike some previous cases, after the passenger was subdued, the plane did continue on to Dulles. Airport police…
A United Airlines flight from Atlanta to San Francisco was diverted to Dallas after finding an unclaimed Blackberry on board. According to a TSA spokesman, it was diverted “out of an abundance of caution.” In simple layman’s terms…that is called overreacting. Authorities didn’t send military fighter aircraft to escort the plane down, as the Associated…
We reported recently on the Power of Prayer, and how it got one Orthodox Jew booted off a plane in from Montreal to New York. The article we references mentioned how the Flight Attendant recognized the man in question was not a Muslim. A Canadian doctor from Winnipeg is demanding an official apology and compensation…
In a previous post, we commented on United Airlines and its downsizing of its JFK hub. We commented on a prediction that United would cancel its New York to Tokyo service. In further review of this, we have discovered that they are indeed doing this. In this press release announcing United’s Tokyo and Dulles flight,…
United Airlines announced this morning they are boosting their presence at Washington’s Dulles Airport(IAD) by thirteen percent. By November 2006, this means 321 Daily Departures by United from Dulles Airport. This follows the announcement, as reported by The Chicago Tribune that a U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge approved a deal for Delta Airlines to buy United’s…