budget airlines

With a great sigh from passengers across the U.S., Southwest Airlines recently began charging for checked bags. It marked the end of an era in the United States, since they …

Delta Air Lines isn’t known for surprises. For decades, it’s followed the classic hub-and-spoke playbook: flights from smaller cities connect through major hubs like Atlanta or Detroit before heading to …

The internet is full of all sorts of misinformation. Even before ChatGPT and AI went mainstream, there were people who would just make stuff up, put it on the internet …

Spirit Airlines began scheduled service to our home airport, MCO, in 1993. My husband Joe and I moved to Orlando in late 2000. At the time, I looked at what …

Nowadays, when it comes to Southwest Airlines, THE story of the year is their recent announcement that, effective May 28th, the airline is introducing a policy to charge for checked …

Spirit Airlines has been making headlines lately—and not for the reasons any airline would want. The latest chapter in the ultra-low-cost carrier’s story began in November 2024, when the company …

Michael O’Leary, the CEO of Ryanair, is known worldwide for his various unconventional business tactics. He became the CFO of the Dublin-based airline in 1988, and while in that position, …

Remember how we told you how airlines save so much money by making infinitesimal cuts here and there? I think we just got hit with another one. This time by …

Over the years, airlines have given passengers in economy class less and less legroom. Nowadays, except for the likes of Southwest (and even with them, not for much longer), if …