Airlines
Alaska Air Group is the latest US air carrier to shore up its premium seating offerings — part of an industry-wide boom to cater to passengers who will pay more for premium perks.On Tuesday, Alaska Air Group, which operates Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, unveiled a new premium economy cabin…
If you haven’t booked your holiday flights yet, you may want to brace your wallet: Airlines are cutting options and potentially raising fares as oil prices reach new highs.After surging in the spring following the start of the war in Iran, oil prices surged yet again this summer and surpassed…
And the Oscar for best airline goes to…The aviation rating company Skytrax announced the winners of its annual 2026 World Airline Awards, known as “the Oscars of the aviation industry,” on Friday.To determine the winners, Skytrax conducted the world’s largest airline passenger satisfaction survey. From September 2025 to August 2026,…
Don’t think that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is going to sit through your slide deck.”If you want to send a deck, send it to me in advance, and then we’re just going to talk about it, but you’re not going to read slides to me,” Kirby told Semafor’s “CEO…
More travelers are shelling out for the best airplane seats amid a boom in premium travel, driving airlines to develop increasingly complex business-class seats — some of which are proving to be a headache for carriers and manufacturers alike.Since COVID-19, airlines have been packing their planes with fancy new cabins as they try…
Another AI company wants to get its hands on Spirit Airlines’ data.Ali Ansari, 25, the founder and CEO of Micro1, a startup that helps train AI models, told Business Insider that his firm is making a “materially higher” offer for Spirit Airlines’ data after Google successfully bid $10 million for…
Some adventurous travelers are skipping the crowds on the ground to watch Wednesday’s solar eclipse from thousands of feet in the air, thanks to a handful of specially arranged airline and charter flights.Brussels Airlines is flying 100 people over France to view the partial eclipse, Aerospace Global News reported. The…
