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Here's what airline CEOs have to say about fuel prices:
Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza was one of several airline CEOs to sound off on shrinking fuel prices. If you’re like me and making winter escape plans for March, you may be wondering why airline...
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The Worst Airlines People Actually Fly
AP Photo/David Guttenfelder Journalist Julian Ryall may have shown bigger guts than most when boarding his recent flight on Air Koryo, the flag carrier of North Korea. As the only airline to receive...
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Spirit Airlines giggles its way through ad celebrating 69th airplane
I remember being legitimately shocked when I learned that Bryan Adams’ song “Summer of ’69” had less to do with the year of the moon landing and more to do with the kind of explicit stuff that they...
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Scoot Airlines CEO calls out Spirit for stealing colors, branding and pretty...
Facebook/FlyScoot What’s yellow and black and clasping its hands over its crotch? One of the product icons from Spirit Airlines. Or is it one of the product icons from Scoot Airlines? Actually, it’s...
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Scoot Airlines CEO sends Spirit a step-by-step guide on how to properly steal...
Spirit’s Bare Fare branding. Photo credit Spirit Earlier this week Scoot Airlines CEO Campbell Wilson called out Spirit Airlines for using branding that’s trikingly similar to Scoot’s. In the video,...
View ArticleIt's time for Scoot Airlines to stop acting like an attention-starved child
In pretty much every home video that my parents filmed from, say, the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, I can be heard in the background yelling “Look at me! Hey! Look at me! You’ve got enough of that...
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Spirit Airlines flight delayed because TSA agents all went home
Image: Bernal Saborio via Flickr Spirit Airlines — which held the distinction of the airline with the most complaints to the US Department of Transportation until Frontier recently stole that honor —...
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10 completely serious (and not at all sarcastic) reasons to love Spirit Airlines
Photo of CEO Ben Baldanza courtesy of Spirit Airlines Alright, let’s get this out of the way right now — Spirit is the worst. The bait-and-switch pricing, the bag fees between $35 and $100 (for...
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Tattletale passenger gets flight attendant in trouble for tarmac pictures
Photo: ABC7 Chicago OK, if you have an iPhone and a Facebook account (and pretty much everyone does, except for my dad and that urban beekeeper who also brags about not owning a television), you’ve...
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Low-cost carriers are the future of aviation, according to Boeing
The front page of Boeing’s annual market outlook report. Boeing sees enormous promise in the booming low-cost carrier model — especially as developing countries grow in prosperity and more travelers...
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This is the cost of checked bags on every major U.S. airline
Photo by Charles Wiriawan In honor of JetBlue’s fall from grace yesterday, joining all other U.S. carriers except Southwest in charging for checked bags, we decided to lay out for you exactly how much...
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Virgin America tops Airfarewatchdog's survey for best domestic airline
Photo courtesy of Aero Icarus/flickr Virgin America has been voted #1 in a recent Airfarewatchdog 2015 Best Domestic Airline poll (and in Travel + Leisure’s 2015 World’s Best Awards). Airfarewatchdog’s...
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This is how long it takes for your miles to expire on every major U.S. airline
Photo: Davidd/Flickr There’s nothing worse than saving up your frequent-flier miles for months (or years) for a big international trip only to find out that your miles have evaporated due to...
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This is how much it costs to change a ticket with every major U.S. airline
Photo by Epsos.de In a perfect world we’d be able to change flight reservations as easily as our average Friday night plans. But the reality is the only airline that shares our vision of a perfect...
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These are the most efficient U.S. airlines when it comes to making money
Photo by Lance What’s the most efficient airline? Well, if you want to take an investor’s perspective, it won’t have anything to do with on-time records or the percentage of bags that arrive to their...
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Here are 14 major airlines' policies for flying pregnant
Photo: mliu92/Flickr Commercial airlines have a lot of rules when it comes to letting mothers-to-be on board. Shuttling off during the first or second trimester is usually A-okay, but the last 13 weeks...
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Latest Air Travel Consumer Report shows more customer complaints, less...
Photo: Franck Vervial/Flickr The Department of Transportation (DOT) wanted to gauge how people are feeling toward airlines, so it conducted some surveys and has just released its latest Air Travel...
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Why baggage fees may be a good thing
Photo courtesy of Lisa Larsson/flickr Most fliers are pretty annoyed by checked baggage fees, which typically range from $25 to $35 for the first and second bags, and up to $150+ after that. For those...
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How to beat the system when flying Spirit Airlines
Photo: Mighty Travels/Flickr I once, for a writing assignment, flew a Spirit Airlines flight from New York to Colombia with a layover in Miami. The premise of my story was simple: it would take a...
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Here are 12 major airlines' policies for flying with pets
Photo: Thomas di Luccio One of the most stressful travel experiences I’ve ever had was when I moved to Asia and towed my cat along with me. Besides all the paperwork and vet appointments, one of the...
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