Articles tagged “low-cost carriers”

Baldanza is right in his cynicism -- flyers almost always focus on price first -- but we still will avoid flying Spirit whenever we can.

What can we say? Yellow and Gold make Green. With the high demand to attend St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Dublin, New York and Boston, this announcement could not be better timed.

It makes sense that Ryanair would take advantage of the distressed status of this airport and of the popularity of Valencia as a tourism destination, especially for UK travellers. The airport's promoters are no doubt relieved.

We're guessing that easyJet's flyers won't be buying the Edition version of the watch.

American and US Airways reacted fairly quickly to the competitive threat from the low cost carriers, but this battle will be ongoing in 2015.

All of this new-found airline industry health is proving to be a game-changer for Southwest in that its formerly inept competitors are starting to get their act together. The next chapter obviously has yet to be written.

It's unlikely the DOT will be able to stall Norwegian Air International's foreign air carrier application for much longer, and then we'll see how much fare disruption is really in the carrier's arsenal.

It's nice to have options, and Southwest has a ton of new destination opportunities as it ponders where to fly next -- probably in 2016 and beyond.

How do you compete when a low-cost carrier like Spirit is eating your lunch? Eat what your competitor eats. Delta is trying out the Spirit diet for extremely price-sensitive travelers.

That's a lot of yellow on a plane. Our guess is CEO Ben Baldanza bought it all in a close-out sale.