2019
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3 Links I Love: When Boeing Strayed, Qantas Pouts, Airplane Water is Fine
This week’s featured link: The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course – The AtlanticDon’t worry, this isn’t a 10,000 word traditional…
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Delta Should Have Bigger Plans For Its Silver Airways Codeshare
I linked to the press release announcing the Delta and Silver Airways would be entering into a codeshare arrangement on Friday, but…
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Hahn Air Issues the World’s First Ticket Using Blockchain… Does It Matter?
Blockchain! I know, I know. A lot of people are excited about blockchain, but nobody really seems to know why. It’s supposed…
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IAG Looks to Consolidate Power At the Top
Airline mergers within Europe have gone very differently from how they’ve proceeded in the US. As we all know, in Europe, the…
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3 Links I Love: Grounding Southwest Planes, Delta Nabs Silver, Ontario at 3
I will be rolling out a redesign of the blog in the next week or so. If you’d like to see preview,…
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JetBlue’s Take on Basic Economy Brings More of the Same Plus a Blizzard of Options
JetBlue’s long-awaited Basic Economy entry has now gone live in limited markets, and with it comes a big reorganization in how JetBlue…
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Flying United to Chicago for Media Day (Trip Report)
After a few days in Washington, it was time to move on to Chicago for United’s Global Media Day. Even though I…
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Corrected: Shining the Spotlight on October’s Operational Problem Children
My apologies, but I somehow mixed up the A14 numbers for Southwest, Frontier, and United. This has been corrected, and I have…
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Cranky on the Web: Should Southwest Buy Another Airline?
If Southwest wanted to acquire another airline, which would it target? – Dallas Business JournalA research note suggesting that Southwest might consider…
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3 Links I Love: Flight Operated by Bus, Alaska Crashes, Goodbye Old MSY
This week’s featured link: The bus to the plane: On board Sun Country’s first Landline connection – TPGI love multi-modal, and here’s…
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IAG Makes a Play For Madrid and Latin America With Air Europa Acquisition
When Delta snatched LATAM from American’s arms, I said this: Delta has fundamentally re-drawn the map around the globe. If long-entrenched partners…
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Flying the Friendly But Broken Skies to Washington (Trip Report)
To say I don’t fly United often is an understatement. The last time I set foot on a United-operated airplane was more…