Lots to cover…never enough time… United Airlines announced new service from Los Angeles to Des Moines, IA and Austin, TX effective February 13th, and will be operated by Skywest’s CRJ-700 regional jets with 6 first class and 60 economy seats, including Economy Plus. Beginning on March 3rd, Delta will be offering flights from Lawton/Ft. Sill,…
Monthly Archives: October 2007
CheapoAir Fakes Positive Comment on Site
A few months ago, we here at Flight Wisdom spun off a new blog/site, Infrequent Flier, which we hoped to do some advice stories for the less frequent traveler. One of our posts was on Cheapoair, entitled You Get What You Pay For – Cheapoair. We have never patronized Cheapoair, so we went out onto…
What Has Happened to Southwest?
Southwest…the Love Airline…based at Dallas’s Love Field…with the symbol LUV…An airline that once dressed flight attendants in hot pants and declared Racquel Welsh its ideal employee type has hit middle age. “That’s the day that the airline built on buxom tops, lanky legs, hot pants and go-go boots told a 23-year-old college student that she…
Service Ends and Service Begins
ATA will be ending all flights to Washington-National and New York’s LaGuardia Airport by January 7th. The aircraft will be redeployed on charter routes until their planned 2009 international expansion. Not only will this be a significant reduction in ATA’s East Coast operations, as well as denying Southwest’s opportunity to codeshare on these flights into…
Catching Up – New Service and More
Midwest Airlines has added the option to purchase a customized Travel Guard single-trip travel insurance policy specifically for Midwest customers during the ticket purchase process on the Midwest Airlines website and through their other distribution means. We love trip insurance….it protects you from the horror stories we often collect about horrible situations that have happened…
Boeing Delays 787 Deliveries and First Flight
Breaking News Today, Boeing announced a delay in the schedule for the 787 Dreamliner. We had faith in Boeing…especially after the troubles Airbus had with the A380 putting the plane almost two years behind schedule, we thought Boeing would smartly throw some money to avoid the same media issues. To build the 787 Dreamliner faster,…
US Airways Downgrades Pittsburgh Again – Colgan Air Steps Up
US Airways will reduce the number of flights in January from its Pittsburgh hub, a move that will cut 450 airline jobs. It will reduce the number of daily mainline flights from 31 to 22 and regional service from 77 to about 46. It mid 2005, it had over 200 daily flights. The move means…
ExpressJet Expands
ExpressJet, an airline we hope to fly someday, is expanding once again. ExpressJet announced service to three new cities in time for the holiday season. We’d love to fly ExpressJet, if not for the fact they don’t come to the Northeast under their own brand. Perhaps someday we’ll find an excuse. Until then, we continue…