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When’s the best time to buy plane tickets?

by Samantha Fields
May 15, 2023
Google's piloting a new, free price drop guarantee. Why, and how useful is it?
Wondering airline tickets will be cheaper if you wait? Most of the time, that's unlikely, says airline industry industry commentator Mike Arnot.
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Airlines are in a hiring frenzy as summer travel season nears

by Samantha Fields
May 8, 2023
Pilots, in particular, are in high demand. Airlines don't want to be caught off guard like they were last year.
Airlines are hiring for nearly all positions in order to meet consumers' pent-up demand for travel.
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A shortage of air traffic controllers is forcing airlines to cancel flights to and from NYC

by Henry Epp
Apr 28, 2023
The FAA has asked airlines to give up precious landing slots.
Above, the air traffic tower at LaGuardia Airport. According to the FAA, New York has just over half of the air traffic controllers it needs.
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Leisure travel is back. Business travel is not.

by Mitchell Hartman
Apr 25, 2023
It isn't as lucrative for airlines to fly planes full of leisure travelers. They need higher-spending business travelers to juice profits.
While leisure travel is booming, revenue from business travel is still down more than 25% since the start of the pandemic.
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Can Southwest regain passengers' trust?

by Matt Levin
Dec 30, 2022
Leisure travelers may be quick to forgive and forget. Business travelers, not so much.
Southwest Airlines travelers search for their suitcases Wednesday at Denver International Airport. In the past week, the carrier canceled more than 16,000 flights.
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Why all the flight cancellations? Airlines are still in recovery mode

by Kristin Schwab
Dec 23, 2022
Capacity is down. The weather's not great, either.
Another wave of flight cancellations and delays for the holidays has travelers on edge.
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As travel picks up, airlines expect to turn their first profit since 2019

by Lily Jamali
Dec 8, 2022
Leisure travel, as opposed to business, is the source of most of the industry’s profits these days.
Before Covid, business travelers made up 50% or more of airline profits. But today, leisure travelers are the source of most of the industry’s profits, says travel industry expert Henry Harteveldt.
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Airlines and airports need each other — and also hate each other

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Dec 6, 2022
Many airports are hoping to raise the fees they charge airlines, and airlines have not responded well. The fight is public and nasty.
The fees airlines charge to airports are much more significant than what airports charge airlines, per ICF's Samuel Engel. Above, planes sit at the San Francisco International Airport.
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Frontier Airlines hangs up on customer service by telephone

by Samantha Fields
Nov 28, 2022
Dial the number, and a recorded message refers you to the website or mobile app. That could alienate some customers, one analyst says.
Frontier Airlines will handle customer service through an online chat service and its app.
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A pilot shortage means higher airfares and service cuts at regional airports

by Samantha Fields
Nov 21, 2022
Sixty U.S. airports have lost more than half of their flights since 2019, and 14 no longer have any commercial service.
When COVID hit and air travel virtually stopped, many airlines encouraged pilots to take buyouts or early retirement. Now airlines are struggling to play catch-up.
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