From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu's Airport Check-in column: "Washington Dulles last week revealed more details of its $1.3 billion construction project that aims to improve transportation between concourses and ease crowds at the main ticketing area. The plan calls...
Air France is having a sale on business-class fares with fares as low as $1,340 round-trip for travel this holiday season. But there is a catch: Your flight can go through Air France's Paris hub, but you cannot make Paris...
The Airbus A380 could seat 853 passengers in a typical all-economy-class configuration. "A stretched version expected to be developed in the future could seat more than 1,000 passengers," Reuters writes in an extensive list of facts that it says "sizes...
Does this terminal look familiar? If you think you can identify the airport, take a guess in the comments section below. The answer will be revealed at 2 p.m. ET Tuesday. If this proves popular, it could become a regular...
That's the headline from The Boston Globe, which writes that Delta "launched its first tricked out Boeing 737-800 last week, giving transcontinental customers more comfortable coach-class seating and Delta on Demand, a digital entertainment system available at every passenger's seat."...
AirTran will try to grow in Milwaukee even after its hostile-takeover bid for Milwaukee-based Midwest Airlines was rebuffed earlier this year. AirTran has requested two additional gates at Milwaukee –- for a total of four -– in a move that...
European planemaker Airbus delivered its first Airbus A380 this morning, handing the plane off nearly two years late to launch-customer Singapore Airlines, The Associated Press reports. "Until now, the A380 has been Airbus' baby. Today we are here to celebrate...
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu's Airport Check-in column: "Southwest Airlines is remodeling airport gates it uses to facilitate a new boarding procedure. Last week, the carrier unveiled the new look at its home airport, Dallas Love Field, and plans...
That's the headline from The Columbus Dispatch of Ohio, which writes Skybus might "at least temporarily" discontinue "three of its five West Coast flights in the spring when it puts a new batch of tickets up for sale for March...
JetBlue is considering more flights at Stewart International Airport, about 70 miles north of New York City near Newburgh, N.Y. The Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal says JetBlue CEO David Barger spoke last week at a local annual economic development breakfast, where...
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary is again discussing the possibility of starting a low-cost carrier that would fly between the USA and Europe. He also appears to be talking a little bit about himself, as well. "I'm thinking of calling it...
Airlines may soon be asking you to ditch your paper boarding passes and instead check-in using your cellphone or BlackBerry, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Houston Chronicle writes that "a new bar code standard" was announced Thursday by the...
ATA Airlines will end scheduled service to both Washington Reagan National and New York LaGuardia airports by the beginning of January, ATA COO Gary Ellmer says in an internal memo obtained by Today in the Sky. ATA's service from Chicago...
Two United flights ran into unusual problems in the Midwest this week, according to two Midwestern newspapers. The first came Monday night, where The Indianapolis Star reports that police "arrested an apparently intoxicated passenger" after his Memphis-to-Chicago flight diverted to...
