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American Airlines and US Airways Are Officially Merging. Here's What it Means.

Last month's unveiling of American Airlines' new logo and livery (er, paint job) was a prelude to this: the long-awaited, full-blown merger with US Airways. The airlines are making it official this morning after their respective boards approved the $11 billion deal yesterday. US Airways CEO Doug P ... More >>

Glenn Beck Says American Airlines Flight Attendant Made Him Feel "Subhuman," Compares Flight to Nazi's Europe

Glenn Beck has seen the face of hatred in America, and it looks like a surly flight attendant. In a transcript from his radio show, posted to his website this morning, Beck claims that an American Airlines employee slammed his drink down, barked the word "breakfast" at him, and delivered a monologue ... More >>

American Airlines Flight Sent Back to Gate After Flight Attendant Rants Over PA About Crashing

Update, 12:30 p.m.: The flight's on the ground, but it will need to restock its alcohol supply. Details after the original. Update, 11:23 a.m.: American has confirmed the incident, and says two flight attendants were injured. The airline's statement is after the original item. Original item: An Am ... More >>

How Did 65-Year-Old Woman Manage to Get Gun Through DFW Airport Security, Anyway?

Via.​No doubt you've heard by now that a 65-year-old Little Elm woman was arrested at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport this morning for taking a .38-caliber pistol aboard an American Airlines flight. The Transportation Security Administration sent out a press release early this morning; a c ... More >>

Survey Says American, Southwest Are the Top Two Carriers When It Comes to Losing Bags

​A Friend of Unfair Park passes along The Wall Street Journal's latest look-see at how well the big carriers handle passengers and their luggage, and per the annual Middle Seat survey the two locally based airlines don't do so well when it comes to getting your bags to your destination. As in: Ame ... More >>

Southwest's Flight Attendants Accept Pilot's Apology For His Open-Mic Rant

​One week ago today, the union representing Southwest Airlines' flight attendants threatened to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after it became public that a pilot had taken to the airwaves to broadcast his ... let's say ... dissatisfaction with the quality of the ... More >>

Southwest's Flight Attendants Are Furious Over Pilot's Comments and Carrier's Response

​Perhaps you've heard: Back on March 25, a still-unidentified Southwest Airlines pilot was somewhere over the great state of Texas when he decided to use his open mike to review the Love Field-based carrier's flight attendants. Said the fellow, all he could find on his route were "11 fucking over- ... More >>

Spirit Offers Another DFW-to-Chicago Option

​On the same day that Love Field-based Southwest Airlines announced its 40th anniversary sale featuring some one-way ducats for as low at $40, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport sends word that newbie Spirit Airlines is already expanding its service. Initially, the low-fare carrier was only f ... More >>

Is It Better To Be Virgin or Take American from DFW to San Francisco? A Taste Test.

We tested out the new Virgin-American rivalry from D/FW to the West Coast so you don't have to.​Andrea Grimes: A month ago, Virgin America began flying direct out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to the West Coast -- specifically, Los Angeles and San Francisco. To announce their small- ... More >>

City Offers Love Field Fliers Some Tips on How to Have a "Safe and Pleasant Experience"

Love Field does not look like this. Not yet. But it will. One day. So they say.​As you're no doubt aware by now, Love Field's starting to get its extreme makeover -- otherwise known as the Love Field Modernization Program, for those now quite with the program. But, see, maybe you're headed out for ... More >>

Southwest's Flight Attendants Cheer TSA's Move to Let 'Em Through Without Scan, Pat-Down

​Seems like it was only Friday that Transport Workers Union Local 556 -- which reps Southwest Airlines's 9,400 flight attendants -- was sending Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John J. Pistole that note letting the officials know they most certainly did not app ... More >>

Southwest's Flight Attendants Also Don't Much Care For TSA's New Screening Procedures

​Southwest Airlines's 9,400 flight attendants just sent word: They don't wanna be scanned. And they don't wanna be gate-raped.  That's the gist of the missive Transport Workers Union Local 556 President Thom McDaniel sent to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrato ... More >>

DFW International Airport Now a Virgin: Service to LA, San Francisco Begins in December

This is how Virgin America is advertising its flights from DFW to LA and San Francisco this morning.​On the other side is the full announcement from Dallas/Fort International Airport concerning  Virgin America's decision to go west, young man: On December 1, the just-turned-3-year-old carrier ... More >>

Harvard Business Review Frequent Flier Asks, When Did American Airlines Get So Sad?

​A few weeks ago, you no doubt recall, The New York Times wondered whether American Airlines was becoming "a waning star of air travel." To which many Friends responded, as they often do when the subject of the Fort Worth-based carrier comes up: Why, yes, yes it is. Among the frequent complaints h ... More >>

Are You Too a "Bewildered and Angry Flier"?

The Wall Street Journal this morning examines airlines' inconsistently, almost arbitrarily enforced rules and regulations -- you know, the kind that result in "bewildered and angry fliers." As a prime example, the paper checks in with a frequent flier who found himself subject to the whims of an Ame ... More >>

AA Flight Attendants to Work the Picket Counter at DFW Tomorrow

Airline Execs Now Have Common Enemy: Goddamned Oil Speculators!

Some 900 AA Flight Attendants Get a Choice: Get Pushed Out or Jump from the "Voluntary Bridge to Retirement"

DFW International Has New Web Site. Wow, Just in Time!

Looked Like You Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue

AA Raises Fares, But, Really, What's Another Twenty Bucks Among Friends?

AA's Tim Wagner Will Now Answer Your Questions and Concerns. Be Nice.

Television Haters Want American To Fly Friendler Fare. They'll Get Right On It.

AA Flight 48, From DFW to Paris, Sounds Like One Hell of a Trip

Welcome to Hell: Or, Good Luck Getting Out of DFW, Suckers.

Just Think of All the Free Travel

Your Spring Break Trip Just Got Officially Effed

Items of Interest, Far As You Know

American Airlines: They'll Get Ya There. At Some Point.

AA: Puttin' Flight Attendants Back to Work -- Well, 200 of Them, Anyway

TWA Flight Attendants' Fury at American Airlines Takes Flight

AMR Boss Makes $10 Million. Former TWA Flight Attendents Want Their Share. Or, At Least, Their Jobs.

Just a Plane Sword

And Qantas Never Crashed

It's a Secret, No Doubt

No, Thanks, I'll Take the Bus

The Wright Flight Flies into D.C.

For a Change, American Airlines is Against Itself

The Wright Way to Mess With American?

Where's the Quo?

Airline Tickets for the Wright Price

The Unfriendly Skies

Whatta Load

Mostly Air

Plus: Sowing Old Seeds

Meal Tickets

Are airline meals worth the cost?

Best Free Kids Outing

Founder's Plaza at DFW Airport

Memory Problem

Plans for a 9-11 memorial for American Airlines workers hit snags

Love's Labor Lost

The silence is deafening at City Hall over expanding Love Field, but Jim Schutze has some advice for airport neighbors: Buy earplugs.

Air homophobia

A gay-bashing pilot prompts a change at Southwest Airlines

The (W)right to Fly

How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game