This week’s featured link:
United Airlines President on Turning Skeptics Into Believers – Skift
As you know, I love interviews. Here’s one with Scott Kirby, United’s President.
Two for the road:
Fresh News About Old Airport Hotels – Stuck at the Airport
Can’t say I’d … Read the post
It was just two weeks ago that I wrote about ominous clouds hovering over OneJet. Now there’s been another blow: flights and bookings have been suspended. The company says it will resume selling tickets in October though the actual date for the resumption of flights is unclear. I would … Read the post
I’m not done with Scott Kirby just yet. In the same media gathering where I asked about yesterday’s topic, scope relief, someone else asked about the future of the Washington/Dulles hub. I’ll just paste Scott’s answer here, and then we can discuss it below.
At the International Aviation Forecast Summit last week, United President Scott Kirby was unsurprisingly in high demand. After his presentation, he took a few minutes to sit with a handful of media so we could fire questions at him. I asked Scott about “scope relief,” something I wrote about back … Read the post
This week’s featured link:
Lopez Obrador Commits to Unorthodox Vote on $13 Billion Airport – Bloomberg
The Mexico City airport saga continues. The incoming president promised he’d stop constructing the new airport (which is already a third built) and focus on expanding the existing one. Now he realizes that’s a … Read the post
I spent most of this week at the Boyd Conference (properly known as the International Aviation Forecast Summit). While I have plenty of posts to compile from that, it’s something that wasn’t announced at the conference that grabbed my eye for today’s post. American rolled out a large number of … Read the post
After a week bouncing around the Carolinas, it was time to come home. As is always the case when we return from visiting the in-laws in North Carolina, we had the choice of a connection from Wilmington or a nonstop from Raleigh/Durham. And as usual, the nonstop won out. Delta … Read the post
Thanks to a mess of bad weather in the eastern half of the country, it has been a rough summer for airline operations. I swear it’s been so bad lately that any day I don’t receive an email with a weather waiver from one airline or another, I take notice. … Read the post
This week’s featured link:
Sabre Agrees to Pilot New Technologies With American Airlines and Other Travel Giants – Skift
Distribution-giant Sabre spent a long, long time fighting against the use of NDC to modernize airline distribution, but under Sean Menke, the company has finally lurched forward and joined the party. … Read the post
When I first came out of college in 1999, I started work as an analyst in pricing & tariffs for America West Airlines. I realize I sound like an old man when I say this, but back then it was a simpler time. When I left in 2002 to go … Read the post
When I first heard that a non-pilot had stolen a Horizon Air Dash-8 Q400 and flew around Seattle for an hour, I couldn’t help but be impressed. How could someone who doesn’t have a license to fly figure out how to choreograph that entire event? If you haven’t seen the … Read the post
For many years, Delta seemed like an airline in search of an Asia strategy while its competitors pushed forward definitively. Now that the Korean Air joint venture is in place, however, the combined Delta/Korean efforts looks like an airline on a mission. They have plowed forward, most recently with a … Read the post
