On Alaska, you need 20,000 elite qualifying miles (EQMs) in a year to get to the lowest level of elite status, MVP. Or I could do 40,000 and try for Gold on partner American instead. It is absolutely ...

The airlines in the US have developed into a special kind of company… one that consistently loses money on its core business but makes up for it on financial services. This is thanks to the way ...

I’ve long had an unhealthy fascination with airline schedule change policies. I think it’s because they tend to reflect the personality of the airline itself in funny ways. But ever since the ...

In a perfect world, the idea here is that when interchange fees drop, that’s money that gets returned to the consumer in the form of lower prices on goods. After all, the businesses will keep a higher ...

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To paraphrase the Beatles, they get by with a little help from their friends. This airline has good friends that keep pumping money into the airline, mostly named Bjørn. They’ve also made a new friend ...

Just recently, Spirit began to transition to this plan. In June of 2024, off-peak days operated at 95 percent of the peak day departure numbers for the airline. But this June, the airline reduced ...