My review of the first flight I take with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Flying mid week is still cheapest according to research from Which? Travel

Going on that next trip may only be a roll away by playing Yahtzee: Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards-Style! The Let 'Em Fly and Win Yahtzee promotion will run through Sept. 30, 2011, and includes a prize pool of more than seven million Rapid Rewards Points for both current and new Rapid Rewards Members.

Miles above the U.S. heartland, nearly half-way between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, one customer aboard United Airlines flight 942 from Los Angeles to Chicago this Saturday will reach a first-ever milestone: earning 10 million miles in flight.

The practice of adding credit & debit card surcharges on travel purchases has become epidemic in the UK over the past few years, and now the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has concluded the activity is unfair to consumers.

Get your new travel insurance policy now, before rates go up in 2011.

easyJet launches premium flexible fares aimed at business travelers.

The history of budget air travel can be traced back to Southwest Airlines in Dallas, Texas in the Seventies, but it was not until the Nineties that deregulation of the European market allowed low-cost pioneers Ryanair and easyJet to really take off

First in a new series of updates on the world of travel.

January roundup of travel articles and sites I'm hooked on at the moment. Please do send me tips for other reading materials in the comments below or via email at jack@eyeflare.com.

70 new routes for Europe's second largest budget airline in 2010.

It looks more likely than ever that British Airways staff will cause horrible holiday misery for many thousands of British and other vacationers this christmas.

Pegasus Airlines is launching 17 new routes between the UK and Turkey in 2010.

Travel articles and news from around the web. Issue 24 of the eyeflare.com Great reads roundup.

In some more positive news about air travel, rather than the cuts and route closures of late, Frontier Airlines announced seasonal increases in its flight frequencies between Denver International Airport and four Mexican resort destinations.

European Union regulators vowed to seek tougher oversight of airlines and airports for lost luggage as part of a campaign to bolster passenger rights.

Fees for checked luggage is a nice little earner for the airlines. But if you'd rather not pay up more on top of your airfare, here are 7 tips on never having to pay them!

For the 640,000 travelers each year whose luggage is lost by airline, compensation has been increased for the first time since 2004.

The Guardian is running a travel article today about the airlines' new agreement to cut carbon emissions by 50% before 2050. I believe this is greenwash of the worst sort.

easyJet will be cutting 20% of the airlines' flights out of London Luton airport and will be closing the East Midlands airport hub by 2010.

Now there's one less budget airline in Europe, after Sky Europe filed for bankruptcy on 1 September. The failed airline has also suspended all flights, stranding passengers waiting for their return flights.

From today, most air travelers will be asked their birth dates and genders when making airline reservations. With the new and quite public expansion of the Secure Flight program, the Transport Security Administration (TSA) will be asking airlines to provide passengers' identity information to the federal government.

Ryanair is axing all but one of its 10 routes from Manchester Airport in a drive to cut costs after the hub refused to reduce its charges.

David Dimbleby, the host of BBC Question Time, was one of many hundreds of travelers stuck at Stansted the other day because Ryanair only opened 11 check in desks for 255 flights.

American Airlines, looking to bump up revenue in a recessionary environment, plans to raise checked-bag fees on U.S. domestic itineraries by $5.