Colorado Winter Weather Alert (Last updated 10:25 pm MT 2/1/2012)
Due to the expected impact of a winter storm, Frontier Airlines has enacted the following guidelines for travel to/from or through Aspen, Colorado Springs, Denver and/or Steamboat (Hayden).
For all customers scheduled to travel February 2-3, 2012 who purchased tickets on or before February 1, 2012:
For [...]
A Southwest Airlines plane runs into a light pole on the runway:
Southwest Airlines is reducing the amount of legroom on its planes from 32 inches to 31, Gizmodo writes:
Your legroom will decrease from 32 to 31 inches, and the pitch of the recline will decrease from 3 to 2 inches. The company is also outfitting its seats with thinner cushions cloaked in a fancy-sounding pleather.
But don’t [...]
United Airlines in Denver, trolling Steelers fans
The delicate work of a sommelier has become more important as U.S. airlines fight for premium passengers willing to shell out up to thousands of dollars to fly business class on international and transcontinental flights. The idea isn’t to make money on the wine — the passengers in those seats drink for free — but [...]
Here’s what United Airlines said about the outage:
United computer outage
This evening, United Airlines experienced a computer outage interrupting the airline’s flight departures, airport processing and reservations systems. As a result, customers may experience difficulties completing transactions at united.com and United reservations. Our technology team is working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. We [...]
Here’s the first of the Flight Blog Poll of the Month series: How many times has an airline lost your baggage?
How many times has an airline lost your baggage?
By Flight Blog reader RGT:
I am at Chicago O’Hare airport, awaiting the 6pm flight to LaGuardia. I just wrote United to complain about the atrocious failures of United Airways.
I was booked on flight 7126 (UA flight 7593) December 30 from Salt Lake City to Chicago, connected to flight 6770 (UA flight 694) to New York [...]
It doesn’t look good for Mexicana Airlines. According to their website:
Grupo Mexicana suspends flights until further notice
Current management received the company in a state of technical bankruptcy seven days ago after it filed for protection under Mexico’s insolvency laws
Financial deterioration and lack of agreements force Grupo Mexicana to stop flying
Grupo Mexicana deeply regrets any inconvenience [...]
The Denver Post reports in their article, Lean times for airlines means bumped fliers have a harder time finding flights:
“Planes are running so full that they don’t have any spots,” Tulsa, Okla., resident Anne Green said last week as she waited between flights. “It’s like a domino effect where you can’t get another flight when [...]