Airline guides
Airline policy and booking guides
Baggage rules, fare-class restrictions and change policies differ far more between carriers than most travellers expect. We keep a separate page for each airline we book often, and we date every one.
Most booked
The carriers we handle most, and the ones where the rules changed most recently.
Southwest Airlines
Two structural changes in twelve months, plus limited third-party distribution.
Read the guideDelta Air Lines
The fare-class ladder is the point of confusion, not the booking itself.
Read the guideAmerican Airlines
Basic Economy that behaves unlike its rivals, plus two seat products people conflate.
Read the guideUnited Airlines
The carry-on question has a genuinely non-obvious, route-dependent answer.
Read the guideFrontier Airlines
Show the arithmetic nobody else shows.
Read the guideAlso frequently booked
Solid domestic and transborder coverage with their own quirks worth knowing.
JetBlue Airways
Seat pitch and cabin comfort are the real differentiator.
Read the guideAlaska Airlines
Saver fare rules differ from Basic Economy in ways people get wrong.
Read the guideAir Canada
Preclearance is the thing travellers underestimate.
Read the guideSmaller and regional carriers
Narrower networks, but often the only nonstop on a given route.
Hawaiian Airlines
Island and airport choice is the real decision.
Read the guideBreeze Airways
Unique nonstops, but low frequency means real disruption risk.
Read the guideAvelo Airlines
Write about the volatility, not a route list that goes stale.
Read the guideBooking an airline we have not written up?
We book well beyond the carriers listed here, including international airlines. These pages exist because they are the ones we are asked about most, not because they are the only ones we handle. Call and ask.