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Happy 90th birthday, Phoenix Sky Harbor Int’l Airport. Party on!

Happy 90th birthday, Phoenix Sky Harbor Int’l Airport. Party on!

07/30/25
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX), which calls itself ‘America’s Friendliest Airport,’ was surely the funnest airport to be at this week during an anniversary party commemorating the purchase of the rural airport in 1935. 90 years ago, ‘Sky Harbor’ was nicknamed ‘The Farm’ time because of its location. And back then, the purchase price […]
Alaska Airlines grounds fleet for 3 hours

Alaska Airlines grounds fleet for 3 hours

07/21/25
Sunday evening turned troublesome for Alaska Airlines and thousands of its passengers when the carrier experienced an IT outage and issued a system-wide ground stop for Alaska Airlines and Horizons Air flights to address the issue. The ground stop lasted just a few hours, but it may take days to get all affected passengers to […]
Donate to Texas flood relief & get bonus miles

Donate to Texas flood relief & get bonus miles

07/09/25
(Image courtesy American Airlines) Individuals and organizations are doing what they can to help out with relief efforts for those affected by the catastrophic flooding in central Texas. Fort Worth, Texas-based American Airlines is partnering with the American Red Cross, Airlink and Team Rubicon in relief efforts, assembling and sending care packages for responders and […]
Edelweiss Air lands in Seattle

Edelweiss Air lands in Seattle

06/02/25
Lufthansa Group’s leisure airline, Edelweiss (operated by SWISS), touched down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) on Monday and was welcomed with a traditional water cannon salute. Edelweiss will now offer twice weekly summer seasonal service between SEA and Switzerland’s Zurich Airport (ZRH) on an Airbus A340-300 with 314 seats across three classes. Edelweiss Business Class […]
Flights we’d take on Alaska and United

Flights we’d take on Alaska and United

05/13/25
Alaska Airlines’ 1st intercontinental route: SEA to Tokyo (Image courtesy Port of Seattle) On Monday, Alaska Airlines celebrated its first intercontinental flight to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport (NRT). The new daily flight, operated by Hawaiian Airlines, which Alaska Airlines acquired in September 2024, is on an A330 aircraft and is the first of 12 international […]
Avelo contracts to fly ICE deportation flights

Avelo contracts to fly ICE deportation flights

04/08/25
Avelo under fire for contracting with ICE for deportation flights The U.S. government usually contracts with charter companies for deportation flights. And you can read a ProPublica account of those flights here. But now a commercial budget airline, Houston-based Avelo, has a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration Control and Enforcement agency […]
Emirates premium economy seats now fly from Seattle

Emirates premium economy seats now fly from Seattle

04/03/25
Dubai-based Emirates has a reputation for swank and glamour. And since late 2022 the carrier has been working its way through interior refurbishement of 191 A380s and Boeing 777 aircraft. One piece of the project is adding a Premium Economy product – seats and service – to the planes. And Emirates now has retrofitted planes […]
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