Recent Articles
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3 Links I Love: Richard Branson is Sad, Silly Circular Runways, Ridiculous Ratings
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This week’s featured link: Dear Virgin America – Richard Branson’s Virgin Blog Richard Branson is a sad panda. His weepy goodbye to Virgin America is…
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Alaska Sticks With Its Own Brand But Learns a Little From Virgin America Before Killing It
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The long-awaited branding decision has been made, and as expected, Alaska will be retiring the Virgin America brand in the next couple of years. I…
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A Completely Unnecessary 2.5 Hour Delay: the Delta and Compass Comedy of Errors (Trip Report)
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Ok, so I lied. I thought my trip to Puerto Vallarta would be the last time I flew Delta when it was in Terminal 5…
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Alitalia’s Board Approves Its Unimaginative and Undoubtedly Unsuccessful Restructuring Plan
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Since January, Alitalia, the worst airline ever, has been hard at work on restructuring plan #1,403 so it can save itself from doom. This took…
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3 Links I Love: JetBlue Not Happy with Embraers, Delta Reviews Its Refinery, Aircraft Graphic Design
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This week’s featured link: JetBlue launches fleet review with E190 cost concerns – FlightGlobal It’s been no secret from past comments that JetBlue isn’t in…
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Why Returning to West Maui Was a Huge Undertaking for Hawaiian (Across the Aisle)
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This month, Hawaiian Airlines returned to the tiny Kapalua West Maui Airport (airport code: JHM) after a nearly 25-year absence with 2 daily flights to…
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American and United Fight to See Who Can Lose More Money in Small Cities
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With international markets looking weaker for a variety of reasons, the US legacy carriers have turned their focus inward to domestic markets where fewer airlines…
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If You Thought the Alaska/Virgin America Merger Was Anti-Competitive, Take a Look at San Francisco
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I can’t recall anyone outside of the federal government thinking that the Alaska/Virgin America merger was in any way anti-competitive, but all you need to…
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Cranky on the Web: 20 Questions with Cranky, American’s Boarding Process, 2016 Ops
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I forgot to post these last week, so here’s two week’s worth of stuff. 20 questions with The Cranky Flier (Brett Snyder) – Wade Patterson/steemit…
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3 Links I Love: Boeing’s MoM Gets a Boost, JetBlue Feels Pain in Atlanta, More on the Port Authority Scandal
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This week’s featured link: United Looks at Boeing’s ‘Paper Plane’ and Likes What It Sees – Bloomberg Bloomberg has been cranking out some interesting pieces…
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Fun with Photos of Qatar’s Impressive New QSuite Business Class
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Qatar Airways has long been promising that it would roll-out a world-changing, amazing, industry-leading new business class. After much delay, that day came yesterday with…
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The Airlines Will Never Get Boarding Right, But They Could If They Charged for Carry-Ons
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Since the dawn of time (or something like that), airlines have struggled to find the best way to board their airplanes. I can’t count the…
