US Airways is refocusing on its three major hubs, handing back its Beijing route, cancelling five transatlantic routes, reducing its Las Vegas service and generally rearranging its network. The 1,000 jobs eliminated as part of the changes would repr...

Southwest Airlines has launched a distance-based fare sale, ranging from $25 one way for trips under 375 miles, up to $100 for trips of more than 1,000 miles. "Southwest Airlines saw great success with our wild 48-sale fare sale in July and wanted to...

Here's what we threw up on the Web: Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co. has confirmed a $170 million bid for Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. after indicating its initial bid would be $113.6 million two weeks ago. A formal auction f...

Southwest Airlines Co. said today it earned $54 million in the second quarter, its first official profit after three quarters of losses. "In, without a doubt, one of the worst revenue environments for the airlines, ever, this is an enormous ach...

Nothing makes an airline look worse than having passengers stranded on board their planes for hours because of weather. Ask Northwest Airlines (OK, now part of Delta Air Lines) about snow in...

AE adds a third daily flight using a 44-seater - I'm no air service development specialist (that's pretty obvious) but that seems to be a fairly positive result in a fare environment like this one. Starting new markets ain't easy; getting a first, then...

I'm not a real hard core traveler, but I did get to see 'Up in the Air' this past weekend and quite enjoyed it. Traveling is such an arduous, gritty process for most people that it was interesting to see a guy who actually seemed to revel in (at least...

Seattle's Boeing Commercial Aircraft says the Dreamliner could fly as early as 10 a.m. Pacific time Tuesday. It's already doing some taxi testing and getting set for its big day. Here's a link to a nice series of pictures from a former paper of mine,...

Apparently we've got the general idea of how the new bilateral aviation treaty is going to look between Japan and the United States. And Fort Worth's American Airlines likes how things look, no thanks to Delta Air, which AA says was trying to shiv the...

Here's the link for folks who want to get every OJ detail out of this story... but wow. Basically, an Exec Platinum passenger on a flight on Sunday from Sacramento (just before the flight I took home, just FYI, the one with the garlic fries in the row...