Southwest Airlines to Increase Fees and Charge for No Shows Southwest Airlines, the best known of US low cost carriers, will be increasing fees and start charging for passengers who no-show. Two checked bags on Southwest will still remain free which is something you won’t find over at the legacy carriers. While checked bags at [...]
Virgin America Takes on United at Newark Liberty Airport United Airlines, it’s time to move over at Newark — Virgin America is bringing some well needed competition to the market. United will still be the dominant carrier at Newark Liberty with their New York City hub, but Virgin America will be bringing their hip service [...]
Largest Fleet Equipped with In-Flight Internet Delta Air Lines, based at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Intl Airport (ATL) was the first to claim dibs on having the largest fleet of aircraft equipped with Internet service. However, it’s only their domestic fleet equipped with Broadband Internet via GoGo WiFi (WLAN), including larger regional jet aircraft. The WiFi equipped [...]
Virgin Brings Freedom For Philadelphia Shine the Runway Lights, Philadelphia, as Virgin America “redwood” touches down. Virgin America is the first airline to launch new service in Philadelphia in eight years. Philadelphia is not only Virgin America’s 17th destination, but a hub for US Airways which drives up prices in markets lacking competition. Today [...]
US Airways Adds Six Destinations from National US Airways is launching six more destinations from its hub at Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). Washington National Airport has an outdated perimeter rule to protect Dulles airport, only allowing flights of up to 1,250 statute miles. However, US Airways obtained one exemption to the Washington National perimeter [...]
New York to Boston, Chicago, and Washington DC The Delta Shuttle now offers GoGo in-flight wireless internet on all flights. The Delta Shuttle operates out of the LaGuardia Marine Air Terminal A and provides frequent service to Boston Logan (BOS), Washington National (DCA) and Chicago O’Hare Airport (ORD). Currently, all Delta Shuttle flights between New [...]
Delta to Equip Larger Regional Jets With GoGo WiFi Over the past decade, regional jets from the cramped CRJ-100/200, often nicknamed “cramped regional jet”, to the E145 have become a reality of aviation in the United States. It’s no secret major carriers started to downsize a bit more than 10 years ago and the cramped [...]