Curacao Immigration Forms Are Going Completely Digital

Flying to Curacao is about to get a whole lot easier. Curacao’s Hato International Airport is switching to a fully online immigration card, a move which will help speed up the arrival process for travelers to the Dutch Caribbean island. All travelers to Curacao now have to fill out a digital immigration card prior to […]

Spirit Airlines will be first ‘ultra low-cost’ carrier in u.s. to offer wi-fi

Spirit Airlines is introducing a new fee, but it’s for an option the carrier thinks customers will be happy about: in-flight Wi-Fi. Spirit announced Friday that it will become the first North American no-frills "ultra low-cost carrier" to add that capability, unveiling an aggressive plan to equip its entire fleet of about 120 planes with […]

Google can now predict flight delays before your airline

If you don"™t trust your airline to tip you off about flight delays, you will love the latest feature on Google Flights. Google"™s flight booking product can now predict delayed flights even before your airline can. How, you ask? Google Flights will use a smart combination of historical data and artificial intelligence to provide live […]

On-time arrival data skewed by airlines to meet own priorities

On flights from Atlanta to Chicago O"™Hare during the first half of this year, American, United, Frontier and Spirit each had average gate-to-gate times of between 127 and 129 minutes. Yet on-time stats for the four airlines were markedly different. That variance points to a flaw in the Department of Transportation (DOT) system for calculating […]