2009
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Spirit Adds a PUF When You Buy a Ticket
A piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday noted that Spirit is planning to start charging a PUF, or Passenger Usage Fee,…
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Southwest Agrees to Steep Penalties Over Maintenance Problems
Remember when Southwest was fined for flying its planes past the time they were required to go through inspections? It appears that…
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TripAdvisor Creates Metasearch Site That Includes Fees in Comparison
Well, hello TripAdvisor. A couple of weeks ago, Fly.com showed us a travel search site that looked a lot like Kayak and…
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Airbus, Alaska Airlines, BNET, Boeing, Civil Aviation, Delta, Distribution, Fares, Government Regulation, JetBlue, Northwest, PMD – Palmdale, Safety/Security, Schedule Changes, Technology, United
This Week on BNET (Feb 23 – 27)
JetBlue Leaves Open Skies for Sabre The Open Skies system may be simple, but it no longer provides what many low cost…
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Forget Charging for Lavs, Ryanair Is Eliminating Ticket Counters at Airports
All the Ryanair buzz this morning is about some casual comments made by Michael O’Leary suggesting he wants to charge people to…
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Ask Cranky: When Will Continental Airplanes Have LiveTV Installed?
Several months ago, Continental announced a partnership with LiveTV that would bring the company’s next generation entertainment system onboard much of Continental’s…
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Emirates Continues to Grow While Dubai’s Economy Crumbles
US airlines have done an excellent job of holding back on capacity lately, and that has left them with at least somewhat…
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Why Did US Airways End Charges for Soda and Water? To Enhance Its Rep
Over the weekend, US Airways said it would stop charging for soda, water, coffee, and tea on March 1. You’ve probably read…
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TSA Begins Testing Security Without a Metal Detector
Pop quiz: Where is the one place in the continental United States where you’ll never be asked to walk through a metal…
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Delta, Frontier, Go!, Government Regulation, Hawaiian, Inflight Entertainment, LAX – Los Angeles, Mergers/Finance, Mesa Airlines, Mesaba, Mokulele
This Week on BNET (Feb 16 – 20)
Delta Starts Consolidating Regional Carriers Delta is taking pieces of Compass, Comair, and Mesaba and mashing them together. Seems like a good…
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Allegiant Details LAX Plans
Despite all the skepticism around my initial post, Allegiant did, in fact, announce this week that it’s coming to LAX and not…
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Southwest’s Next City is Boston
In case it wasn’t clear, the days of Southwest heading to secondary airports are over. Next stop? Boston. Flights begin, well, we…