May 2017
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Ryanair Introduces Connections and Prepares for Interlining, But Don’t Expect Crazy Cheap Fares
Connections suck. Oh sure, as a traveler you don’t like them, but I’m looking at it from the other side. Airlines don’t…
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3 Links I Love: Should Never Have Been Allowed to Fly, Aloha Southwest, Amazon Labor Trouble
This week’s featured link: Experts: Traveler should have drawn scrutiny before flight – Associated Press There are so many stories about airline…
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Delta’s Move Toward Flexibility: Upgrade Any Single Flight at Any Time After Ticketing
If there’s one area where I think the low cost carriers have a huge advantage over the legacy carriers, it’s in the…
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The Cranky Flier Interview: Those Who Made the Delta Move at LAX Happen
As you saw on the blog last week, I was invited to spend the night with Delta to chronicle the airline’s move…
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Air Canada Reverses Course, Leads the Charge to Bring Loyalty Back In-House
There was a trend over the last few years for airlines to try to spin off their loyalty programs into standalone businesses.…
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3 Links I Love: Alaska’s New Secondary Seattle Airport, Terry Maxon on the Airlines, Qantas 72 Humanized
This week’s featured link: New flying out of Paine Field will ease commuting pain for many – Alaska Airlines Blog Alaska has…
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Can Sabre Become a Fast-Moving, Innovative Technology Company?
The air was thick with irony. At Sabre’s big Airline Technology Exchange conference in Las Vegas last week, all of Sabre’s airline…
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Spring Break in North Carolina (Trip Report)
Spring Break! Ok, so that doesn’t quite mean the same thing as it used to. This year, we took the kids to…
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Up All Night With Delta During the Great LAX Terminal Shuffle
On Friday night, an army of orange and green vests gathered outside Delta’s makeshift command center sitting atop the surface parking lot…
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Cranky on the Web: The LAX Terminal Shuffle
FOX 11 News In Depth: Big changes coming to LAX – Fox 11 Los Angeles I actually spent all of last night…
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3 Links I Love: Spirit’s Pilots Get Slapped in Court, Bad Small City Subsidies, Baltia’s At It Again
This week’s featured link: Amid Cancelations & Delays, Court Orders Spirit Airlines Pilots To Halt Alleged Work Slowdown – Consumerist I thought…
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Delta’s CEO on the Middle East “Cheaters” (Across the Aisle)
Welcome back to the third, final, and probably most controversial installment in my Across the Aisle interview with Delta CEO Ed Bastian.…