New Kid on the Star Alliance Block?
US Airways, once caught up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is emerging stronger and forging alliances. They have recently entered into a codeshare agreement with Lufthansa (one of the original members of the Star Alliance), and membership in the Star Alliance seems imminent.

Fare talk - types of airfares
You don't always know what you are going to get when you purchase an airline ticket. Every person on a flight may have paid a different price to fly. Can you change or cancel your tickets, and at what cost? The airlines have a seemingly secretive formula to constructing airfares. Knowing types of airfares and how they apply may not mean that airfares make sense, but you can make sense of them.

Airlines write! Inflight Magazines
Airlines often provide more than simply a flight to get you where you need to go. Many airlines produce inflight magazines, there to give you details about their fleet, or inflight entertainment, sometimes articles about places they travel to, or other diversions. Read on about this aspect of inflight entertainment!

SARS - Airline policies and flight reductions
Airlines are constantly updating and revising flight schedules, reducing flight services to different parts of the world, and laying off employees. The most recent instigator of these changes is not war in Iraq but rather SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome).

SARS affects the health of air travel
It is not just war or armed conflict that can have an adverse effect on air travel. Sometimes a virulent virus can create enough ripples of panic in passengers that travel plans are changed or canceled, and airlines suffer as people stop flying or stay closer to home. SARS is proving to be an example of a virus that is steering passengers away from flights to certain parts of the world.

Airlines react to war - Flight Schedules trimmed
The reaction to the conflict (War)in Iraq has been swift in the air travel industry. Travel agents are promoting destinations 'closer to home', and airlines are reducing flights to certain parts of the world. Airlines are facing the reality of flying during war times, and the continued threat of financial peril resulting from less passengers, rising fuel prices and an unstable global environment