The original plan put forth by Elliott earlier this year was to replace directors on the board so it would then have a majority. It also wanted CEO Bob Jordan gone. Like many investors, Elliott was ...

There was the 767 (later 777) that brought people from Honolulu to Guam and sometimes on to Tokyo. Then there was the famed Island Hopper that went along all the little atolls and islands between ...

In addition to boosting frequencies in the Newark – Athens, Dubrovnik, and Palma de Mallorca markets, Newark is getting five new summer seasonal routes to some pretty hard-to-get places. Madeira ...

This was supposed to be a nice and easy flight home from Honolulu after a great trip. I had been sitting on a ton of points from last October when Hawaiian canceled a couple flights impacting four ...

My name is Brett Snyder, and I am the President and Chief Airline Dork of Cranky Flier LLC. I’ve had the airline bug since I was young. I never wanted to fly… I just loved the complexity of the ...

What about the people who were going to Florida on vacation during the hurricane? Well, it was pretty late to change plans, but airlines are much better at being flexible. What do Southwest and ...

I talked yesterday about Southwest’s broader plan coming out of its investor day, but today I want to talk about the most significant change, Southwest’s decision to assign all seats and add an extra ...

Of all the things that Southwest announced in its turnaround plan, the changes in seating were obviously the most buzzy. But I’ve been surprised to see just how much talk there was around the decision ...