There's no shortage of groups who have directed their ire at airlines in recent years. Now you can add surfers to the list. They are taking aim at British Airways, which now bans surfboards from its checked luggage, according to...
British Airways CEO Willie Walsh became the latest BA official to discuss growth plans once the "open skies" agreement between the USA and European Union goes into effect in March. As part of the changes allowed by the pact, BA...
Delta is making changes to its frequent-flier program which could make booking award tickets more difficult, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Among changes beginning Dec. 1, Delta will add a "surcharge" for reward tickets booked on its SkyTeam alliance...
It's time for this week's "name that airport" challenge. Last week's airport, for those who missed the answer, was Berlin's Tegel Airport. There are fewer terminal clues in this week's photo, but our readers have been pretty resourceful in figuring...
It's always a challenge to fit all of the day's aviation news into Today in the Sky. While I do my best to get the day's top stories into the blog, there are always at least a half dozen stories...
From USA TODAY's Airport Check-in column: Philadelphia International plans to install an electronic system that would alert motorists to unoccupied parking spaces. It should be installed within three months at the airport's five garages. Electronic signs at the end of...
The latest monthly federal airline on-time report showed some decent numbers –- especially when compared to how bad the industry has been performing so far in 2007. During September, the latest month for which federal data is available, 81.7% of...
Addressing one of the hot topics lately in the airline industry, the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics says in its latest on-time report that "there were 79 flights in September with taxi-out times of more than three hours. There were...
Air Canada announced this afternoon what it says is "a major expansion of service between Canada and Germany in cooperation with its Star Alliance partner, Lufthansa." On May 1, Lufthansa will add seasonal nonstop service between Toronto and Dusseldorf, Germany....
Five US Airways cabin crew became sick today on a Washington-to-Boston US Airways Shuttle flight, according to Reuters. The five workers had who fell ill had already complained of a sulfur-type odor on another plane from earlier in the day....
Four of the nation's five most-chronically delayed flights for September flew under the Delta logo, according to the latest data released moments ago by in Department of Transportation's Air Travel Consumer Report (page 14). Still, the nation's rate of chronically...
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has issued a press advisory saying a new international route will be announced today. The airport has scheduled a press conference for 5:30 p.m. ET. "The Port of Seattle, along with tourism, trade and development officials from...
"Hagerstown Regional Airport is finishing up a $62 million runway project. Now all it needs is an airline." That quote comes from The Associated Press, which writes Hagerstown is one of three cities losing commercial airline service "because the federal...
Alaska Airlines subsidiary Horizon Air is now flying nonstop between Santa Rosa, Calif., and its hub in Portland, Ore. The carrier is flying one daily round-trip flight on the route using Q400 turboprop aircraft. Horizon began flying from Santa Rosa...
