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About the desk

Airways Center is a small independent desk writing about airlines, airports, aircraft and the rules passengers actually meet.

What we do

We publish explanatory aviation journalism: how alliances work, how fares are built, what happens to an aircraft between landing and departure, what an airline owes a passenger when a flight is cancelled. Each piece is planned around a question readers ask, checked against primary sources, and written to be useful a year after publication rather than for a single news cycle.

Who writes it

The desk is edited in the United States and writes for a US-based readership, with an eye on the North Atlantic and the transatlantic joint ventures that shape it. We also publish contributed features from people who work in the industry — clearly separated from our own reporting.

Our name

The domain usairwayscenter.com carried an arena website until the middle of the 2010s. We kept the archive and built an aviation title on the same address. We are not connected with US Airways, with American Airlines, or with the Phoenix arena that once used a similar name. We sell no tickets and take no bookings. If you are looking for the arena or for an airline, you want their own websites, not this one.

Corrections

Mistakes are corrected in place, with a note at the foot of the piece. Write to the desk and we will fix what is wrong.