November 2017
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WestJet Just Keeps Adding Complexity, And Somehow It Works
In general, complexity is the enemy of any good low-cost airline. Sure, by nature, legacy carriers have complexity in spades, and that’s…
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How Does That Movie Make It To the Airplane? Global Eagle Explains (Sponsored Post)
This is the kind of sponsored post that I really like doing. Global Eagle had me come down to take a tour…
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Southern Airways Express Serves Small Cities… And Makes Money
My ongoing, unorganized series looking at the demise of small city service in the US has been pretty depressing. Sure there are…
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Delta Swaps International and Domestic Aircraft To Fight the Low Cost Carriers
It was more than a year and a half ago when I wrote this about JetBlue’s first big expansion of its Mint…
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Flat Beds on the American 767-300, Then Coach Home (Trip Report)
As I wrote yesterday, it’s a quiet Thanksgiving week, so I’m posting my recent trip reports to get them out of the…
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JetBlue Mint, Take 2: Now With Food! (Trip Report)
It’s Thanksgiving week, so I’ve decided to lie low and post two trip reports today and tomorrow. No post Thursday, and I’ll…
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3 Links I Love: KLM Not LinkedIn, California Pacific Tries Again, the Delta 747 Goodbye
This week’s featured link: KLM Lets The Customer Decide… – Meanwhile at KLM This is a really interesting read. KLM has one…
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Long Beach and the Unsustainable Southwest Effect
On June 5, 2016, Southwest launched its first flights from Long Beach with 4 daily to Oakland. With a year’s worth of…
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Riding into the Sunset With The Last United 747
Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that United retired its 747s last week with one remarkable last flight. I was…
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How the Experts Think We Can Improve Small Community Air Service
The problem of declining small city service is far from being resolved, and I have a few posts lined up to address…
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Cranky on the Web: New Ideas (Some Terrible) for Inflight Entertainment
The future of in-flight entertainment may include gyms – Marketwatch Don’t let the title fool you. The future of inflight entertainment will…
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3 Links I Love: The Huge Importance of a Nonstop Flight, Marketing Premium Travel, Another 747 Tribute
This week’s featured link: How Direct Flights Shape a City’s Fortunes – CityLab Oooh this is a fun one. They went and…