2017
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Delta’s CEO On The Perfect Airplane for Los Angeles, A Vision for the Pacific, and More (Across the Aisle)
Let’s call this “Delta week,” because you’re going to be getting a lot of CEO Ed Bastian here. When he was in…
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3 Links I Love: Allegiant Chooses Row 13 and an Orange Stripe, Lufthansa Group Ditches a Safety Rule, New Hawaiian Pualani
This week’s featured link: For the First Time, Allegiant Air Learns What It’s Like to Configure a New Airplane – Skift This…
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A Cranky Jackass Award for American’s 737 MAX Torture Chamber
Unlike many of you, I’ve been a fan of traditional airlines increasing density on airplanes over the years. It made sense to…
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Belatedly Pondering Alaska’s Dallas Plans
I’m well aware that it’s been about three weeks since Alaska announced its plans for serving Dallas/Love Field, but I’ve been thinking…
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Southwest’s Surprising Decision to Stop Overbooking
If you thought United’s 10-point plan to deal with the Dr Dao dragging incident was a bit much, just look at what…
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3 Links I Love: Let’s Buy Alitalia, American Jacks Up Pay, United Mourns JFK
This week’s featured link: Lufthansa says not interested in taking over Alitalia – Financial Express The worst airline ever continues to live…
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United Releases Its 10-Point Plan to Avoid Roughing Up Passengers
Soon after Dr David Dao was dragged off United Express flight 3411, the airline said it would be doing a full review…
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I Don’t Care if a Flight Attendant Almost Hit a Baby
I received several notes over the weekend asking about the incident on American where there was a flight attendant, a mom, a…
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WestJet Says It’s Starting an Ultra Low Cost Carrier
Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder north of the border, WestJet decided to step up. The airline that for years…
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Cranky on the Web: More United, Of Course
Story On United 3411 and Dr David Dao – Fox 11 News Somehow I missed this last week, but the reporter from…
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3 Links I Love: Survey on Aviation Media, JetBlue Interview, the United Brand
This week’s featured link: Aviation and the Media Survey There’s a lot of bad reporting out there about aviation, and now the…
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JetBlue vs Virgin America: The Final Showdown Part 2 – Virgin America First Class (Trip Report)
Welcome to part 2 of the final chapter of the JetBlue vs Virgin America trilogy. If you missed part 1, my flight…