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Southwest retires open seating and begins assigned seats with premium options — Static01.nyt.com

Southwest retires open seating and begins assigned seats with premium options

Southwest Airlines on Tuesday officially ended its decades-old open-seating policy and began assigning seats, marking the change with a water-cannon salute, balloons and commemorative bag tags at Orlando International Airport. The first two flights with assigned seating landed early in the day, at Chicago Midway and at Orlando, on a

US airlines cancel thousands of flights as 2,000-mile winter storm nears — I.insider.com

US airlines cancel thousands of flights as 2,000-mile winter storm nears

Businessinsider reports US airlines are canceling thousands of flights this weekend as a major winter storm moves eastward, stretching roughly 2,000 miles from New Mexico to Maine and threatening almost 180 million people, the National Weather Service said. The NWS said early Saturday that much of the south-central US

Airlines cancel hundreds of flights ahead of powerful winter storm — Static01.nyt.com

Airlines cancel hundreds of flights ahead of powerful winter storm

Airlines and airports across much of the United States canceled hundreds of flights and prepared for widespread disruptions as a powerful winter storm threatened ice and snow this weekend. Delta said it had proactively canceled some Friday flights in northern Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee, but most cancellations came

Study: GLP-1 weight-loss drugs may trim U.S. airlines' fuel costs by $580M — Static01.nyt.com

Study: GLP-1 weight-loss drugs may trim U.S. airlines' fuel costs by $580M

A Jefferies study says weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1s could help the four largest U.S. carriers — American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines — save as much as $580 million a year in fuel costs by reducing passenger weight. Sheila Kahyaoglu, an equity analyst at Jefferies and