The frontier has always been known as a place that is less safe and secure than more established lands. Frontier Airlines declared itself to be in a similar place this week when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. When a company files Chapter 11 it is asking the courts to provide temporary protection from its [...]

Skybus Airlines has ceased operations. With ATA and Aloha Airlines, Skybus makes the third airline in a week (4 if you could charter airline Champion Air) that has succumbed to the economic pressures, particularly the high cost of jet fuel. Whose next?
Skybus Airlines will cease all operations effective Saturday, April 5.
Skybus struggled to overcome the [...]

It seems like each day when I open my news reader, newspaper or email I see more information about additional fees that the airlines are charging their customers. Rarely this this a change in the ticket price itself. All of these fees are also additional to the taxes and airport fees that get added onto [...]

The most recent episode of the wonderful “Fly with Me” podcast dealt with people behaving badly on flights. The host of the show Joe Dion, a commercial airline pilot, remarked that when you think about how unnatural a commercial flight is with so many people crammed so close together in a pressurized metal tube 6 [...]

I find it very easy to relax on a Hawaiian vacation. There is something about that tropics that de-stresses me. Maybe this also happens with airline pilots. How else could you explain a recent incident where a plane flying to Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii forgot to land.
It’s one thing for passengers on [...]

Remember back when you used to get a meal on your flight? Heck, remember when you used to get peanuts? Well some airlines on some flights still offer meals and the site AirlineMeals.net documents meals that travelers have been served. The meal above was served, for example, in Business Class on a Continental airline flight. [...]

Wear a big mustache, lose your job. That’s what happened to an airline employee in India.
Victor Joynath De was grounded by Indian – formerly called Indian Airlines- in 2001 for refusing to shave off his handlebar moustache.
He had earlier lost a case in a lower court which ruled that the airline was within its [...]

Airbus and Shell Oil announced a test flight was completed recently with one of the four engines operating on an alternate fuel.
The alternative fuel used on the test flight was gas to liquid (GTL), which looks like kerosene, but is clear coloured. It is a natural gas, which has been cleaned and has undergone [...]

If you have run into problems understanding some of the new airline security rules then you are not alone. Knowing this, but not wanting to have a lot of long drawn out conversations with passengers in the security line at Newark and elsewhere, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has created a new blog where they [...]

According to Reuters:
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm.
Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de said it would start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern German town [...]