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Allegiant bets on your day off
Small cities. Nonstop flights. A timetable built around vacations. Allegiant found a business in the trips other airlines made inconvenient - and learned an expensive lesson when it tried to own the destination, too.
JetBlue made flying nicer. Now comes the expensive part.
Free Wi-Fi and a seatback screen made JetBlue easy to like. Turning that affection into a durable business has proved a much harder flight.
Green Africa’s big idea: make flying ordinary
A Nigerian airline set out to put more people in the air. Its journey from giant jet commitments to owned turboprops shows what affordable flying really demands.
The Bloomberg of Travel Was Built From a Startup's Ashes
Rafat Ali sold his first media company to The Guardian, then started over with a Nordic word for 'shift.' Skift now tells airlines, hotels, and tourism boards what's coming next - and charges them for the privilege.
The Airline That Started With Three Planes and a Grudge Against Airfare
It began in 1996 with three secondhand jets and a plan to undercut everyone. Today WestJet carries millions of Canadians a year - and it is still arguing that cheap seats and warm service do not have to be a contradiction.
The Zipkin Brothers Turned an Empty Seat Into an Airline
Two pilot brothers noticed that the short hop from New York to Nantucket meant flying tired planes with one pilot. They built a 30-plane airline around a simpler idea: sell one seat at a time, keep the charter service.
Aero
Aero is a Los Angeles-based semi-private airline that sells individual seats on custom-configured business jets, slotting itself between full private charter and commercial first class. Founded in 2019 out of Garrett Camp's Expa studio, it flies all-black Embraer ERJ-135 jets reconfigured to 16 leather seats from private terminals on routes like Los Angeles to Aspen, Los Cabos, Napa and Maui, letting guests arrive about 20 minutes before departure for fares roughly comparable to premium commercial cabins.