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Mixed Emotions on Hawaiian’s New Coach Meal Policy
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It is official. The last airline in the US that still handed out free meals on domestic coach flights is going to serve its last freebie on June 30. The next day, Hawaiian Airlines will…
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Southwest Quietly Blows Up Its Succession Plan
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In what is probably a dramatic understatement, Southwest has faced a great deal of change over the last couple of years. I don’t need to rehash all the gory details, but this is an airline…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: LGA Slots Up for Bid, United’s Next Move
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Interested in LGA Slots? Now’s Your Time to Shine As Spirit continues to liquidate on its way out the door, the shuttered carrier plans to put its 22 slots at LGA — with their street…
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San Jose Just Keeps Growing in a Straight Line
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I’ve written a lot about American’s former hubs in recent posts of this series, but none of them can say they were dehubbed by American twice. Only San Jose holds that… uh… well, let’s call…
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Allegiant Tries Something New in Fort Lauderdale
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Allegiant’s strategy has always focused on finding markets that others wouldn’t serve. Whether it’s because the route was too small for anyone to care or it was due to Allegiant using alternate airports, the airline…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Spirit’s Dire Straits, Allegiant Grows in Florida
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Spirit’s March was Bad, Like Really, Really Bad The airline may not be flying anymore, but the bankruptcy continues on. Spirit filed its Monthly Operational Report for March to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court this week…
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Massport and Landline Now Let You Skip Security at Boston Logan
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Landline has been something of a chameleon. Yes it’s a bus operator that likes to masquerade as a regional airline, but it’s more than that. And now it is rolling out what is probably the…
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Sapporo Is a New Kind of Long-Haul Market
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One of the problems that has long plagued airlines in their long-haul networks is what to do with their widebody fleet during the winter. Demand across the Atlantic is enormous in summer — and summer…
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JetBlue is Making Fort Lauderdale Into Its First Hub
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I’ve talked about how JetBlue has been making a push to replace Spirit in Fort Lauderdale and become a clear number one in the market, but this is much bigger than that. For the first…
