As the airline prepares to phase out First Class, American has been somewhat less clear about its plans for these front seats. When it first announced its new aircraft interior over a year ago, it ...

Airline Lounges Are a Crowded Waste of Time – Fodor’s Travel I talk to Scott Laird about my stance on lounges, and this turned into an article he wrote. I do not find lounges worth it in most cases, ...

We’ve been talking about American’s strategy in New York for a very, very long time. The airline is undersized, and there is no clear solution. It briefly hoped it solved its problem in New York with ...

I stopped counting long ago, but there have been many, many attempts to try to modernize the US’s air traffic control (ATC) system over the years. As The Air Current‘s Will Guisbond told us in last ...

Apparently some of the hard-sided bags don’t fit sideways, so they were moving things around up until we were ready to push. They were very talented at this game of Tetris. Meanwhile, the ramp was ...

JetBlue has not been quiet about its desire to have a domestic partner to help it fill some of the gaps it faces as a regionally-focused airline. It had one in American back when it tried to push ...

I wrote last week about how JetBlue appears to be heading straight toward a partnership deal with United. On the surface, this is good news for both United and JetBlue, though of course that truly ...

Closing the Book on 2025, It’s Time to Talk Cranky Network Awards 2026 Closing the Book on 2025, It’s Time to Talk Cranky Network Awards 2026 It was only a couple short months ago that the 2025 Cranky ...

And now that this is done, it’s time to turn our gaze toward the 2026 Cranky Network Awards. That’s right, we are back in Phoenix once again, but we have moved the date up one week for next year to ...

There was a big dog-and-pony show at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport last week touting American’s growth. This didn’t sound like much to me until I saw the details. Holy cow. American is ...