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Put down the pastries. Southwest’s seats may not be wider after all
Photo by Christopher Doyle, flickr To the great joy of domestic travelers, Southwest recently announced it would be widening economy seats on new Boing 737-800 and 373 Max jetliners from an...
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Supersized airline seat for supersized passengers wins design award
The Crystal Cabin Awards were held last week in Hamburg, Germany, and unless you attended the Aircraft Interiors Expo or hosted your own Crystal Cabin party, you might not have heard who won what. The...
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Which airline is the most rewarding to frequent fliers?
photo by Sarah Ackerman via Flickr There are many frustrations that come with modern air travel, but few are as hair-tearing as trying to use the miles you’ve spent years collecting. As miles continue...
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Can your annoying seatmate really make internet calls during a flight?
Photo: Álvaro Ibáñez/Flickr You’ve heard those conversations. Every single time a flight lands, the guy across the aisle or the woman right beside you immediately has to pull out the phone and...
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Emotional Support Animals are allowed to fly for free (even pigs), but are...
Photo: Ken Dodds/Flickr It sounds like the kind of riddle you’d find in the back pages of Highlights magazine, but what’s the quickest way to make pigs fly? Register them as emotional support animals....
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Southwest rebooks woman for free to get her to son in coma (and even packs...
Photo credit to Colin Brown on flickr If you have outstanding vision, or you simply know aviation, you may be familiar with the giant hearts now beating on the bellies of refreshed Southwest Airlines...
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8 ways to ensure your group sits together on your next flight
Photo courtesy of John Bastoen/flickr We all know airline fees have become almost laughably ridiculous, but there is nothing funny about this: Frank Strong, was recently forced to pay $88 to Delta to...
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Delta is speeding up the boarding process by pre-loading carry-on bags
Photo courtesy of Lisa Larsson/flickr Airlines are constantly experimenting with ways to speed up airplane boarding. Currently, Delta is trying something new: pre-loading flier carry-on bags. Called...
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Go ahead and fill that roller bag, because you're not going to need a smaller...
Photo: Canadian Pacific/Flickr We hope that you didn’t rush out to buy a new carry-on bag, because it seems like the ones we’ve all been using will still be OK to take on our next flight. On Wednesday,...
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Are U.S. Airlines Colluding? Senator calls for investigation
photo by Flazingo Photos via Flickr New types of airline partnerships may be arising these days, but apparently cooperation between airlines isn’t always legal — at least not according to Connecticut...
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U.S. airlines collected record $1.6Bn in baggage and change fees during Q1 of...
Photo: James Emery/Flickr I like to imagine that airline executives are sitting behind their massive, impeccably polished desks this morning, rubbing their palms together and hissing the word...
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This is the cost of checked bags on every major U.S. airline
Photo by Charles Wiriawan In honor of JetBlue’s fall from grace yesterday, joining all other U.S. carriers except Southwest in charging for checked bags, we decided to lay out for you exactly how much...
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Seven major airlines are being investigated for collusion
Photo by bloomsberries, Flickr The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating collusion in the aviation industry, and Southwest, United and five other airlines could be in trouble. According to the...
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Is Southwest the best domestic airline to work for?
Southwest Heart One, photo by Southwest It’s all smiles today at Southwest as the airline struck a new four-year contract with its flight attendants union that comes with wage increases, potential...
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Virgin America tops Airfarewatchdog's survey for best domestic airline
Photo courtesy of Aero Icarus/flickr Virgin America has been voted #1 in a recent Airfarewatchdog 2015 Best Domestic Airline poll (and in Travel + Leisure’s 2015 World’s Best Awards). Airfarewatchdog’s...
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8 ways to stop your miles and points from expiring
If you’re a true road warrior, then you’ve undoubtedly signed up at some point with a half-dozen (or more) loyalty programs with airlines, hotels and rental-car agencies. And like most travelers, you...
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A peak at the top biofuel bets being made by the airline industry
Photo: Joule Unlimited Fearing the spectre of upcoming restrictions on permissible airline emissions, and barely eeking by under the current allowable levels and internal goals, airlines are beginning...
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Southwest offering $99 one-way fares to Latin America (sale ends at midnight...
Start planning that autumnal trip to Mexico, the Caribbean or Central America now; Southwest Airlines is offering a sale to many Latin American destinations, ending at midnight tonight in each time...
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6 ways to easily track frequent-flier miles and hotel points
Photo: Nick Harris/Flickr One of the biggest complaints about rewards programs is that they’ve become unwieldy, with hundreds of convoluted rules. They’re also notoriously difficult to keep track of,...
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This is how much it costs to change a ticket with every major U.S. airline
Photo by Epsos.de In a perfect world we’d be able to change flight reservations as easily as our average Friday night plans. But the reality is the only airline that shares our vision of a perfect...
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