Categories: Airports

JFK: Close a Runway and Charge More?

Posted by: Justin Bachman on March 02

The closure of a runway at Kennedy International Airport this week has been accompanied with a respectable dose of angst about worse flight delays at an airport that already…

Detroit, KC, Indy Tops in Airport Satisfaction Poll

Posted by: Justin Bachman on February 18

What’s your favorite airport? Chances are it is not one of the three main ones in New York. J.D. Power and Associates released its annual Airport Satisfaction Study on…

Why JetBlue Loves Boston So Much

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 29

Is Boston destined to be a hub airport? Not, of course, in the traditional sense with a network airline aggregating passengers the way they do in Atlanta and Chicago. But…

Do small cities deserve taxpayer subsidies to sustain air service?

Posted by: Dean Foust on August 18

Some media organizations have ordered their staff to cancel their subscriptions to other publications, but I’m glad to see that the New York Times is still getting their copies of…

Delta, US Airways trade slots in New York, Washington

Posted by: Dean Foust on August 13

U.S. airlines have laid off employees, extracted huge pay cuts from the remaining workers, fobbed off their pension obligations on the federal government, scaled back their routes structures and…they’re still…

Be a VIP at the Airport, For $25

Posted by: Justin Bachman on December 08

The revenue-generation machine at United (UAUA) has unveiled its newest concept: Pay a fee, navigate the airport faster. It’s called Premier Line and will let you access the faster check-in…

An Airport Lounge For All of Us

Posted by: Justin Bachman on November 03

An interesting innovation to the airport travel lounge opened over the weekend at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. The airport, which like every other one these days is hunting revenue, opened…

Farewell to Berlin’s Historic Tempelhof

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 30

With a tinge of sadness, 80 years of history will end on Oct. 31 with the formal closing of Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, or Zentral Flughafen as it was long…

JFK, World’s Gateway, Now a Delay Story

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 03

There are certain delay-plagued airports that make seasoned travelers cringe. Consider O’Hare around 5 p.m on a Friday. Or Atlanta on a Monday morning. Or JFK at, well – OK,…

The secrets to accessing the airport lounge

Posted by: Dean Foust on August 08

Given the growing vagaries of the flying experience, I’m increasingly finding myself sitting at a gate with far more time to kill than I’d anticipated. I’d love to kill…

Is your airport at risk?

Posted by: Dean Foust on July 08

Most of the major airlines have announced 10% cuts in service commencing later this year, and some have already trimming back service to smaller markets: Delta and American each announced…

“Cover me, honey, while I check our bags…”

Posted by: Dean Foust on July 07

After reading this, some of you will say “Only in America…” My wife, however, would say, “Only in Georgia…” Earlier this year the Georgia Legislature, in its infinite wisdom, passed…

Heathrow: So Much Press, None Good

Posted by: Justin Bachman on March 31

“Holy Cow!” as Harry Caray would have said. Talk about a catastrophic coincidence for British Airways: the complete collapse of all positive press and passenger enthusiasm over its new…

Best airport for “connections”: Philly

Posted by: Dean Foust on January 03

AXE, the makers of that body spray for young men, recently commissioned a survey by Sperling’s BestPlaces of which airports were the best — and which were worst — for…

Frank Luntz’s tips on navigating airports

Posted by: Dean Foust on December 21

Frank Luntz is a political pollster and consultant who, at a relatively young age, was one of the strategists than orchestrated the “Contract with America” campaign that triggered a Republican…