Airline News

Hyperbole or reality? American Airlines thinks its upcoming basic and premium economy will be huge, akin to its launching bag fees in 2008.

It's a bad year for frequent flyers as flights earn fewer miles and awards get more expensive.

Whether you look at these 2016 predictions from the perspective of a consumer or the perspective of an airline, they are beneficial aims. They are also tall orders. We don’t think airlines can accomplish all of these goals in 2016, but they should make progress. Or they had better get busy starting.

OneGo's subscription-based flight service for just $1,500 is certainly an interesting concept. But additional costs for rebooking and access to coast-to-coast flights may make it a difficult buy for small businesses.

Now that TSA PreCheck is mostly being used by people who know how it works, everyone who has paid to use the program is probably happier.

These are the aviation trends we were talking about this week.

OTG Management has been hitting Albany hard over the past five years. The company wants a piece of the new terminal set for LaGuardia, and the ability to ferry the gambling cash cow into New York airports.

American Airlines has a long way to go to catch Delta in operational and financial performance but we'll find out in the next two years, now that many of the merger hurdles are behind American, whether Doug Parker is the right guy to do it.

It’s a great time to be a consumer as brands will do what they can to get you to be loyal to them first, even if it means foregoing some fees on the process.

Republican lawmakers are gearing up to privatize air traffic control in the U.S., and the latest report gives them more ammunition for the upcoming battle.