Image via Wikipedia We went on the road last week for a few days, courtesy of JetBlue. We often use JetBlue, enjoying their combination of features. We don’t normally do trip reports, but as we sat there, many things occurred to us, and we thought we’d assemble them into this post. We tried, on previous…
Image via Wikipedia Facing competition from both Southwest and JetBlue entering the Baltimore-Boston route, Delta Air Lines is cancelling its seven daily regional flights on August 18th. It is not surprising that Delta might want to remove its regional jets with all the capacity the competition is bringing in. Also, Delta has downscaled its Boston…
Image via Wikipedia We’ve stayed somewhat quiet about wi-fi of late. Every morning we get a notice via Twitter from Alaska about which flights have wi-fi that day, and we admit we haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing wi-fi at 30,000 feet, but we are looking forward to it. AirTran announced plans to become the…
View Larger Map Today in the Sky alerted us to the possibility that Continental would pull its service out of Ithaca-Tompkins Regional Airport in Ithaca, NY on June 11th. The airline offers several daily flights to its Newark Liberty hub. The most interesting part is flights after this point are still available for sale on…
Here is Part One of our Multi-Part Series on the History of Aviation in Ithaca, NY. We’ll see how it is received. It is exciting for us to use material we gathered years ago, when we used to spend a lot of time in Ithaca. Some of the material we had scanned already, and some…
Image via Wikipedia Over the years, a large number of accidents were as a result of pilot error. Pilots are fallable…indeed all humans are fallible. It is why we have created safety systems…autopilot is the best example. The National Transportation Safety Board hearings on the Continental Connection flight that crashed outside Buffalo in February 12.…
British Airways will be adding nonstop service from London Heathrow to Las Vegas on October 25th. The service will be operated with Boeing 777 aircraft. Virgin Atlantic currently operates service from London Gatwick to Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Virgin Atlantic is launching service from San Juan, Puerto Rico from London’s Gatwick airport via Antigua. The service…
Image via Wikipedia This evening, we made an appearance at the JetBlue-Southwest Guitar Hero challenge, a battle between Morgan Johnston (@JetBlue) and Christi Day (@SouthwestAir), the two airlines’ Twitter reps. Both put out wonderful examples of how Twitter can be used to enhance corporate communication by not only communicating the latest developments, but inviting an…
Southwest Airlines today announced its intention to serve Milwaukee later this year. There are not specific details as of yet, but it plans to offer multiple destinations and will commence sometime after its Boston and New York launches. Southwest has not actually grown this year, but has added flights to these new cities by trimming…
We’ve been a bit busy lately with ‘real life’, also known as that stuff we do when we aren’t acting as a pundit. We have a lot to catch up on still. But, we have been reading, and planning a series of new posts to invigorate our partner site, Infrequentflier.com. We want to address a…
Image by jasontho via Flickr Twenty-one passengers were injured recently after a TAM flight hit turbulence on a Miami to Sao Paulo flight. The plane went into a sharp dive, and three people suffered broken bones, and many passengers were slammed into the ceiling. While this situation is an extreme one, on almost every flight…