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Delta Air Lines starts offering bare-bones basic economy award tickets to frequent flyers

Frequent flyers who like to pick their seats may need to shell out more miles for their next award ticket. Delta Air Lines has been quietly offering its most restrictive tickets to loyal travelers on ... read more

American Airlines to sell restricted 'basic economy' ticket

American Airlines announced last week passengers will be able to buy "basic economy" tickets starting next month that will be similar to bare-bones fares offered by ... including use of the overhead b... read more

Alaska Airlines Made a Costly Loyalty Mistake by Offering Too Many Free Seats

There’s no doubt U.S. airlines are spooked by higher oil prices. By historical levels, they’re not that bad. But perhaps they’re catching carriers by surprise. As frequent flyers know ... opened its a... read more

American Airlines introduces Basic Economy fare

Airlines have been rolling out bare-bones ticketing options ... might be coming to an end. Delta warned earlier this month that prices could start to rise soon. American’s Basic Economy passengers wil... read more

Your guide to the new ‘basic economy’ airfares (copy)

So now you’ll have as many as five airfare products to choose from on some flights: first, business, premium economy, regular economy and basic economy ... differences between airlines (for example, D... read more

Delta Air Lines' CEO Hosts Annual Investor Day (Transcript)

Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE ... have a significant service offering in each 1 of the top 10 markets to Europe, unmatched by any of our peers in the industry. As I mentioned, the codeshare has already ... read more

American and United Aren’t Yet Ready to Compete With Spirit Air on Price

For the next couple of months, they can buy the cheapest tickets on American and United and still get all the perks that the airlines offer ... Basic Economy fares about all the perks they will not re... read more

Winging It: Airlines' numbers are flying high

My sense is, the economy ... frequent-flier programs during February and March. Travel dates were from June through October, and 10 long-haul routes and 10 pairs of destinations under 2,500 miles were ... read more

10 Amazing Holiday Hotel Packages

"Airlines are in the business of selling seats," he explains. That's why they make award ... Delta also charges a $25 fee for checked bags and a $35 fee for an additional checked bag for Main Cabin fa... read more

Dear United Airlines: I Want My Kindle, and My Dignity, Back

My three-part itinerary on United Airlines — all domestic flights — cost me $1334 ... say the vigilant debunkers at Snopes.com — but it’s an apt image for today’s frequent flyers. Schlepping their car... read more

United to start charging for its best coach seats (Extra legroom not included)

Seating is a key part of airlines' bare-bones basic economy product, which United and American rolled out last year, following Delta ... start allowing travelers to apply their basic economy tickets t... read more