Today's briefing
Four lounges open in Austin, Baltimore, Honolulu, and Nashville in late 2027. Six larger Southwest stations get nothing. Chase already has Sapphire Lounges at two of those six.
September 3, 2026 · 4 min read
Every US airport and airline, on the numbers
Aviation news · Analysis
Five of the new routes go to the A321XLR and one to a 737 MAX 8. The three European widebody cities get 767s that average 25 to 30 years old.
August 26, 2026 · 4 min read
Aviation news · Analysis
The estate has sold an office building, a maintenance hangar, and 22 takeoff and landing rights at LaGuardia. The cheapest thing on the list is the only one anybody is fighting about.
August 25, 2026 · 9 min read
Aviation news · Analysis
The airline is still pulling screens out of its oldest Airbuses this summer. In 2028 it starts putting them back into the same airframes, after nine years of arguing the opposite.
August 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Aviation news · Analysis
Delta is expected to announce a Paris route on August 13, five years after American began dismantling the Austin network it built.
August 7, 2026 · 5 min read