Well I say liveblog, more notes that I’m making on the EEE as I fly, hence thenewer posts are at the bottom of this one. I’ll uploaded them when I get somewhere that’s not 6 miles up in the air, free Wi-fi enabled planes this 777 is not. (All times PST). 0500: The American Airlines...

MORE than a little wing, there. We’re at the Midway Park and Fly for an overnight check-in and Chris, a man-of-girth parking attendant, has lifted my carry-on to the shuttle. "Wha’cha’ flying?" he asks FD. "AirTran." "AirTran it is." Yes, AirTran has wooed us away from American, at least when ...

Hard on the heels of discount airline Virgin America’s inauguration of non-stop Boston flights (BOS) to both San Francisco (SFO) and Los Angeles (LAX), American Airlines is offering travelers a major win.American Airlines, which has flown Boston flights to San......

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, News Here is (what should be) a great piece of news from the aviation world - domestic US carriers are losing fewer of our bags. A staggering 1.3 million bags were not lost when compared to statistics from the previous year. Normally, airlines would have a good reaso...

Weekend getaways are great. International weekend retreats are even better – if you can afford them. That won’t he hard with the kind of deep discount airfares American Airlines is offering, deals as low as $79, each-way – exclusive of......

The Stupid Celebrity of the Day award goes to… prankster, or might we even suggest daredevil, Johnny Knoxville.  His claim to fame was the MTV television show Jackass and at this moment that title seems oh so perfect. Johnny was detained today at LAX airport for having a grenade in his carry-...

Filed under: Airlines, Budget Travel Before you book your next award ticket, think about what you're giving the airline. Yeah, you read that correctly; think about what you are giving them. In the Wall Street Journal , that font of all things financial, the secret to screwing the airlines a little h...

First there were e-tickets. We love e-tickets. What if we didn’t have to print the dang things? American Airlines has taken air travel to a new level of digital convenience with mobile boarding passes. Electronically delivered boarding passes (to phones or PDAs) are hoped to streamline the tra...

Jalopnik's Road Test Editor Wes Siler is currently at 35,000 feet, flying American Airlines from LA to NY. Since his Boeing 767 had the recently launched Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi, and since he was......

It’s hard to believe, perhaps, but if you want to fly from Miami to Tallahassee, Florida’s capital city, there’s only one airline in the market. And it only lofts a pair of daily nonstops. Things are scheduled to get better......