It was a busy week on the web…
SkyMall Lands in Bankruptcy as Air Travelers Shun Catalog – Bloomberg
SkyMall is bankrupt and Bloomberg asked me why. You probably can figure it out without my help.
Winter storm Juno impacts Southern California travel – Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
This one …
This week’s topic is more administrative than usual, because I want to get a better understand of how you’re commenting here on the blog. Comments are really important and I think there tends to be great discussion on this site. Though there is the occasional comment deletion necessary, I’ve had …
On Monday, British Airways reached out to me seeing if I’d like to get a briefing on something big coming up. I was secretly hoping it was going to be about the Aer Lingus takeover effort, but instead it turned out to be a talk with James Hillier from …
I’ve been asked this question a lot lately, so I figured it was time to address it.
…With oil prices plummeting, I wonder what will be happening to YQ surcharges. Mostly
called international surcharge but sometimes more accurately fuel surcharge, the current drop in fuel costs should have effect. Since
On January 1st of this year, Alitalia officially became a “new” Alitalia with partial ownership by Etihad. Does this mean Alitalia is no longer the worst airline in the world? Oh please. Sure, Etihad was quick to bring some of its own people to work on the Alitalia project, and …
In the Trenches: Making Sense of 1099s – Small Business Center
It’s tax time and that means it’s 1099 time. I hate dealing with 1099s.…
Frontier has announced it will lay off the only remaining ground handlers employed by the airline, those in Denver, and outsource the jobs. At the same time, it will outsource its reservations agents as well. Is this a necessary move to help remake the airline as an ultra low …
I had to do a last minute day trip up to the Bay Area, and I had a ton of options. After considering everything, I decided to use my BA points to fly on American up to San Jose. Why? Two reasons. First, it is so cheap to use BA …
I can’t say I ever expected to be writing a post about healthcare here on the blog, but sure enough, here we are. I continue to talk to a lot of people about the agreement that American’s pilots are voting on through January 30, and I’m finding it more …
We’ve had some heavy stuff on the blog lately, and there’s more coming tomorrow, so let’s take a little break from serious content today.
A friend posted a link to the Washington Post’s subway identification quiz and said someone should do it for airports. So I did.
If you’re reading …
Ontario-LA feud over ONT airport reveals limits to regional planning – Inland Valley Daily Bulleting
The saga with Ontario Airport continues, and I was interviewed for this piece. This is a lengthy article looking at a variety of topics around Ontario’s effort to take control back from LA World Airports.…
Seems like a “labor” kind of week after Monday’s post, but let’s talk about Delta this time. Delta is kind of an anomaly in that it’s relatively non-union compared to its peers. That includes flight attendants… for now. The IAM has been waging a campaign to unionize and now it …
