This week’s featured link
JetBlue Founder Reveals Details on His New Tech-Focused International Airline – Skift
There’s a lot in here that makes me scratch my head. Moxy will have no routes where it competes with others? Uh, right, if you don’t count nearby airports. And somehow Azul in Brazil is going to be a huge feed opportunity? It’s something, but it’s not going to make this thing fly. It will, however, add complexity, yet Neeleman thinks he needs no phone number for the airline because you can do everything online. There’s just a lot of ego in here, but we know David likes to talk and that won’t necessarily be the final outcome.
Two for the road
Ethiopian pushes Togo as a gateway to America – PaxEx.aero
Here’s another head-scratcher. You’ll be able to fly from LA to Lome in Togo. That marks the first African destination from LA and makes LAX one of the only airports with nonstop flights to six continents. Sure, Ethiopian has a partner in Togo that can connect people all over, but is this really a route that’ll work? I say no.
Pilot ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: ‘This is not the America I know and love’ – The Hill
Ok, this has nothing to do with airlines except that the guy giving the message used to fly for one. But we are only 4 days away from the US midterm elections, so this seemed like a good opportunity to remind everyone to vote. My ballot has already been mailed in. You?
VOTE.
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That is all. Oh wait…
VOTE.
