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JetBlue's Mint business class should prove to be very popular, and there are enough improvements in the rest of the plane to ensure that the airline's existing customer base won't get alienated. Still, it remains to be seen how long JetBlue will keep Mint at its current price points, and whether the service will be an economic success.

Bag tags -- print at home or otherwise -- matter more to long-haul travelers on airlines like Qatar who are more likely to check bags that those on short commuter or weekend getaway jaunts.

There's been grumbling about the quality of Skytrax's ratings before, but this is the first time an airline has turned openly hostile against the consultancy.

Great new terminal, but what Heathrow really, really needs is another runway.

Americans returning to the airport will be surprised by the range of positive and negative changes to the air travel experience -- most of which were necessary to bring the industry out of a recession and into a mobile, tech-influenced future.

We're no doubt in the middle of a new arms race in connectivity. Will better flight tracking go hand-in-hand with faster download speeds?

Iceland's economy is increasingly reliant on tourism and it only makes sense that the primary carrier bringing visitors there also tout the destination's attractions.

Norwegian won't be rid of its critics in year two either, but it may see an aviation landscape that rewards upstarts like itself, or maybe even legacy carriers adopting its techniques.

In the wake of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 incident, the global aviation industry doesn't have to start from scratch, but has numerous enhanced flight-tracking options in development.

Any system that lowers the boundaries to distribution and data sharing is good for consumers who are currently overwhelmed by the comparative tools available.