After spending the previous couple of cold winter months in Seattle, New York, and Boston, as well as visiting Tokyo (cold), Kyoto (cold and breezy), Taipei (rainy), and Hong Kong (windy and rain...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/07/flight-review-vietnam-airlines-in-domestic-economy/
When I fly for personal reasons, I will often think of a possible story angle before my flight. Sometimes I find one, sometimes I do not. During a recent trip from Seattle (SEA) to Houston (IAH),...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2022/12/alaska-airlines-to-the-max/
With other carriers bringing in record profits, United Airlines struggled to find the "Friendly Skies" after merging with Continental. In eight years together, they've experienced more PR nightma...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2019/03/the-texas-two-stop-interlining-with-united-airlines/
For the past few years, our family has spent spring break in Maui, but with the increasing number of Asian carriers landing at North American airports, especially those from mainland China, airf...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2018/08/china-eastern-economy-does-it-deliver/
With only a few weeks left in the year, I decided to use my remaining vacation days for a boys’ weekend in Calgary. It had been a rough few weeks at work and was I looking forward to catching...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2017/12/westjet-trip-report-legitimized-boys-weekend-calgary/
It has been a few years since I first flew on an Embraer E-Jet. That was on Air Canada, from Seattle to Toronto and I was sitting up front. The very long (for a smaller aircraft) flight was a bre...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2017/07/like-flying-embraer-e-jet/
China Eastern is not an airline I ever really expected to fly. With a fleet of new Boeing 777-300ERs, the opening of a new route to Chicago, and a small investment from Delta Air Lines, China Eas...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2016/04/flying-china-easterns-new-777-300er/
I paid a mere $16.11 for a one-way Spirit Airlines Bare Fare flight from Kansas City to Dallas. Crazy, right? It gets crazier… $14.24 of that ticket went to the "Government's Cut," (Spirit's wo...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2016/01/spirit-airlines-bare-fare-science/
When two AirlineReporter writers decide to go on a weekend guys trip, the possibilities are endless. The thing is - we don't mind long flights, crazy routing, or extended layovers - after all, th...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/11/flying-anas-new-tokyo-kuala-lumpur-route-business-economy/
I’ll be the first to admit it. I was naive. I really didn’t think it could get worse than our low-cost carriers (LCCs) here in the U.S. I mean, I’d suffered Spirit’s kneecap-bustin...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/07/flying-uber-low-cost-carrier-thai-airasia-worth/
No matter where in the world, when you fly economy on a small turboprop, you likely are not going to have high expectations. This will just be some basic transportation to get from point A to poi...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/06/air-serbia-shockingly-amazing-economy-experience-turboprop/
As part of a recent trip to Africa, I had to take a commercial flight from Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) to Nairobi (Kenya). There are essentially two options for this route; either the direct flight ...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/05/flight-review-kenya-airways-flying-pride-africa-nairobi/
Recently, airberlin commenced flights between Prague and Berlin-Tegel, and I was fortunate enough to be on-board the inaugural service. The flights are operated by Darwin Airline/Etihad Regio...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/05/airberlinetihad-regional-inaugural-saab-2000/
Recently, I visited Japan for the first time, and thanks to codesharing, my American Airlines ticket was for a flight operated by Japan Airlines. It’s always fun to try a new airline, and even ...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/05/flight-review-japan-airlines-premium-economy/
Recently, I found myself in Ecuador to go experience endemism in person. If you are not biologically inclined, I am referring to going to the Galapagos archipelago in the Galapagos Province of Ec...
https://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/04/avianca-ecuador-if-you-havent-flown-them-do-it/