Flight Wisdom

Horizon Air announced new nonstop service from Los Angeles to Loreto, Mexico. The flights will be operated by a CRJ-700 and begin January 19th. The flights will supplement Alaska’s existing service on the route.
United Airlines inaugurated Los Angeles-Frankfurt on Saturday.
American Airlines had a lot of new routes beginning this week

Miami to:

Barranquilla, Colombia
Phoenix
Savannah
Sarasota/Bradenton

Ft. Lauderdale to:

Santo Domingo
San [...]

Airtran has signed a new three year contract with Coca-Cola. Onboard, you can get Coca-Cola Classic®, Diet Coke®, Sprite®, Sprite Zero(TM), Coca-Cola Zero(TM), Minute Maid® Lemonade, Dasani® Water, Cherry Coke(TM), Cherry Coke Zero(TM) and three types of Minute Maid® juices. Poor Pepsi. Has anyone signed with them lately?
Air France-KLM announced last week they would reduce [...]

Alaska Airlines opened a new reservations call center in Phoenix, replacing a facility in Tempe operated since 1989. It specializes in serving elite frequent fliers and Spanish-speaking customers. We are currently unaware where the facility for most customers is located.
American Airlines will offer new service to Buenos Aires, Argentina from Chicago-O’Hare effective December 13th.
Jetblue is [...]

We received the following letter from a David Gottlieb via comment on another post. We’ve removed it and placed it here. Nothing we can say will fix the situation. But we do have a few thoughts.
Subject: The following took place 2 AM Friday to 1 PM Saturday2:00 AM - Jet Blue cancels our flights [...]

Air France will open daily service from Seattle to Paris on June 11th. It will be its 13th US city.
Delta will offer service from Boston’s Logan Airport to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island once daily from June 29th through September 16th. The service will be operated by Comair.
Northwest will increase capacity on its routes from Memphis [...]

Bombardier, maker of the Canadair Regional Jet(CRJ) announced today it has added a 100-seater option to its lineup after receiving 38 firm orders for it today, which included the conversion of previous CRJ900 orders. The CRJ1000 is a stretch version of the CRJ900(90-seater aircraft and originally referred to as the CRJ900x. It is 3 [...]

Today in the Sky reports that Air France is being sued by a passenger who says he was “shocked” and “humiliated” after the airline told him he was too big to fit in one seat and would have to purchase another. Many airlines have policies for overweight passengers that require the purchase of such a [...]

Today, Northwest and Delta both announced expansion plans. As the Associated Press notes in regards to Northwest, airline consultant Alan Sbarra said that expansion fits with a policy now popular amoung US carriers of “avoiding competition by going to Europe.”
The push to offer more international service could possibly increase competiton and thus lower fares on [...]