JetBlue has asked the U.S. Department of Transportation for the rights to fly to Bogota, Colombia, from the Florida cities of Fort Lauderdale and Orlando. A 2000 treaty between the USA and Colombia limits U.S. carriers to 70 weekly flights...
American Airlines became the latest U.S. legacy carrier to add a new international route, announcing today it would begin service between Chicago O'Hare and Moscow on June 2. AA plans to fly six weekly flights between O'Hare and Moscow's Domodedovo...
As many of you correctly guessed, the answer to yesterday's "name that airport challenge" is Harrisburg International Airport. The airport is located near Middletown, Pa., and serves the south-central region of Pennsylvania, including the cities of Harrisburg, Hershey, Lancaster and...
There's new fodder for the airline merger rumor mill, thanks to new Delta CEO Richard Anderson. In a conference call to discuss Delta's third-quarter earnings with analysts this morning, Anderson suggested that a merger may ultimately be in Delta's best...
As expected, Skybus dropped three of its five West Coast flights when it extended its flight scheduled through May, The Columbus Dispatch reports. The newspaper first reported last week that the carrier was expected to do so. Skybus will suspend...
Denver-based Frontier Airlines apparently hopes it can get in on some of the hoopla surrounding the first-ever World Series appearance by the Colorado Rockies, who are also based in Denver. Frontier is negotiating with DirecTV for the rights to show...
Delta kicked off the U.S. airline industry's third-quarter earnings season by reporting a net profit of $220 million (56 cents a share). The profit topped Wall Street expectations, with The Associated Press saying analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial had expected...
Beginning Jan. 14, Delta will add service between Atlanta and Queretaro in central Mexico. The carrier will fly five weekly round-trip flights on the route. To Queretaro, Delta will fly one daily flight Monday through Friday. The return service will...
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...
