August 2018
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3 Links I Love: Interviewing Scott Kirby, The First Airport Hotel, Wake Up Airplane
This week’s featured link: United Airlines President on Turning Skeptics Into Believers – Skift As you know, I love interviews. Here’s one…
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OneJet “Temporarily” Suspends Its Flights, But a Return to the Skies Would Be Surprising
It was just two weeks ago that I wrote about ominous clouds hovering over OneJet. Now there’s been another blow: flights and…
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It May Be a Mistake For United to Grow Dulles
I’m not done with Scott Kirby just yet. In the same media gathering where I asked about yesterday’s topic, scope relief, someone…
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United Has a Shot at The Regional Flexibility It Craves
At the International Aviation Forecast Summit last week, United President Scott Kirby was unsurprisingly in high demand. After his presentation, he took…
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3 Links I Love: Voting on the Future of MEX, Essential Air Service Saved, Killing the Train
This week’s featured link: Lopez Obrador Commits to Unorthodox Vote on $13 Billion Airport – Bloomberg The Mexico City airport saga continues.…
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Chicago Loses Asia, New York Loses Europe, and Philly Goes Boutique in American Network Changes
I spent most of this week at the Boyd Conference (properly known as the International Aviation Forecast Summit). While I have plenty…
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A Delta 737-800 Brings Me Home From the Carolinas (Trip Report)
After a week bouncing around the Carolinas, it was time to come home. As is always the case when we return from…
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On-Time Performance Has Suffered This Summer, But Some Aircraft Fared Better Than Others
Thanks to a mess of bad weather in the eastern half of the country, it has been a rough summer for airline…
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3 Links I Love: Sabre Warms to NDC, OneJet and WOW Air Face Trouble
This week’s featured link: Sabre Agrees to Pilot New Technologies With American Airlines and Other Travel Giants – Skift Distribution-giant Sabre spent…
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If You Think Fares Are Confusing for Travelers, What About the Poor Pricing Analyst?
When I first came out of college in 1999, I started work as an analyst in pricing & tariffs for America West…
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The Grave Threat Posed by Aircraft Thieves (or Not)
When I first heard that a non-pilot had stolen a Horizon Air Dash-8 Q400 and flew around Seattle for an hour, I…
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Tokyo Hub? Who Needs a Tokyo Hub?
For many years, Delta seemed like an airline in search of an Asia strategy while its competitors pushed forward definitively. Now that…