Articles tagged “southwest airlines”

At minimum, these featured companies get a press release out of it, touting their rankings. There are many more travel companies in U.S. that at some point could make for a comprehensive and dedicated sector ranking.

If the FCC approves in-flight phone calls, then at least U.S. airlines will be able to determine for themselves what the policy should be.

Suddenly, Southwest and other airlines to come have a new ancillary revenue source: fees for texting. Southwest is offering its new iMessage fee at an introductory price of $2 per device. Introductory fees tend to be replaced by higher fees at a later juncture.

Virgin America's landing of slots at LaGuardia means it will have to get away from its traditional long-haul focus, and will have to compete with multiple carriers on shorter routes.

This issue seems small in comparison to the larger changing landscape of aviation that the FAA needs to be paying just as close attention to.

Gogo's reputation as the top in-flight wi-fi provider just received a serious setback. Satellite-based Wi-Fi will soon be the only accepted service as airlines work to compete for the best in-flight service.

JetBlue's frequent flyers are truly blue that just about all the other big U.S. airlines are participating in TSA PreCheck, but JetBlue has yet to get in.

Greedy, greedy, greedy. Keeping the bidding to low-cost carriers would indeed inject some competition into airports where it is at times sorely lacking, as well as protect consumers that the U.S. Justice Department said it was looking out for in the American/US Air lawsuit.

There have been complaints from some U.S. passengers that the TSA PreCheck lines are getting very crowded, sometimes more bottled up than the regular security lines. Well, with the addition of Southwest, they are about to get more clogged.