2018
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3 Links I Love: Why Won’t Airlines Fly Here?, European Mergers, Spirit’s Next CEO
This week’s featured link: ROBERT PRICE: Struggling airport, growing city: What’s up with that? – Bakersfield.com This kind of of conversation has…
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Republic “Commits” to Up to 200 Embraer Aircraft It’ll Probably Never Fly
This week is the Farnborough Airshow, a biennial orgy of aircraft orders where manufacturers try to flex their muscles and show the…
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Flying What’s Left of Virgin America on Alaska Airlines to Seattle (Trip Report)
Last year, I turned 40. This year, it was my wife’s turn. And for her 40th, she wanted to go on an…
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No, Norwegian Hasn’t Turned Into a Profit Machine
I don’t usually cover earnings here on the blog, but there were so many stories wrongfully touting Norwegian’s miraculously-profitable Q2 that I…
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Cranky on the Web: Huntsville Scares Birmingham
Frontier Airlines adds another city in Alabama, but what will it mean for BHM? – Birmingham Business Journal (soft paywall) You wouldn’t…
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3 Links I Love: Ode to the Dash, Fare Weakness, Asiana Crash Response
This week’s featured link: Dash 8: The Piedmont Story – YouTube As you know from reading the blog, Piedmont just retired its…
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JetBlue Supersizes Itself With A220 Order, A321 Upgauge
It wasn’t long ago that Airbus finalized its deal to take control of Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft program, so to celebrate, the aircraft…
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Fun with Numbers: America’s Most Unreliable Airports
It’s so common to come across an article trying to arbitrarily rank airlines or airports one way or another that I generally…
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LEVEL Goes Short-Haul From Vienna, and I Struggle to Figure Out Why
When IAG launched LEVEL last year as a long-haul, low-cost airline, I understood the niche. But now, LEVEL is growing and not…
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Cranky on the Web: LaGuardia’s Terminal, I Wish Airlines Would…
LaGuardia Rebuilds to Go Beyond “Third World,” but is it Enough? – Icons of Infrastructure Here’s another Icons piece, but this one…
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3 Links I Love: More EAS Cuts, Boeing and Embraer Cuddle Up, Hope for Mexico City
This week’s featured link: US DOT terminates EAS availability at 21 communities – ch-aviation It’s that time again when the Department of…
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As of Today, the Big Four US Airlines Have No Propellers Operating Under Their Brands
Yesterday, American Eagle flight 4927 landed in Salisbury, Maryland right around dusk. That flight, operated by a Dash 8-300, marks the end…