Categories: Now boarding

You Want Assigned Seats?! Good Luck With That

Posted by: Justin Bachman on July 30

I’ve been reluctant to mention some recent travails with seat assignments, owing to a belief that my experience may have been isolated. But now it seems someone else, a contributing…

Your Luggage Door-to-Door, from United

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 29

The Hunt for Ancillary Revenue took an interesting turn today with United (UAUA) announcing a new program in which it has a new deal with FedEx (FDX) to collect and…

Parody commentary on today’s skies

Posted by: Dean Foust on August 21

Stumbled across this hilarious video created by “Parody & Son” on the current state of air travel (or maybe I should clarify to say commercial air travel, since it appears…

The Bizarro World of air travel

Posted by: Dean Foust on July 09

I don’t know which of these incidents from the past week ranks as the most bizarre: A United Airlines plane headed from Denver to Des Moines was delayed after…

Flummoxed by Feb. 29

Posted by: Justin Bachman on February 29

The leap year was a problem for United Airlines’ “Easy Check-in” system this morning. The nation’s No. 2 airline said the date fouled software that allows passengers to check in…

It’s a cell phone — no, a boarding pass…

Posted by: Dean Foust on January 08

This is a bit of news that broke right before Christmas, and if it got much pick-up, well I missed. And even if it did, it’s worth repeating. Continental Airlines…