Recent Articles
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Long Beach Ends Talk of a Customs Facility, Will JetBlue Walk?
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If there’s one thing we learned during the last election, it’s that misinformation, fear-mongering, and bullying are now a blueprint for success. The local anti-airport…
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Emirates Plays With Fire, Announces Newark to Athens Flight
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You might think that with a new, anti-globalist administration in the US, foreign airlines might want to tiptoe carefully until they figure out the lay…
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Are Bathroom Lines Allowed on International Flights? The Definitive Answer
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When I wrote up my recent trip to Cancún last week, the big discussion centered around the fact that we weren’t allowed to line up…
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Cranky on the Web: United’s Corporate Guarantee
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United Bolsters Reliability Guarantee to Its Corporate Travel Customers – Skift I’ll admit it’s a stretch to include this here since my blog was quoted…
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3 Links I Love: BA CEO Interview, American is Airline of the Year, Buy On Board Problems
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This week’s featured link: British Airways CEO Interview: How to Bring a Low-Cost Mindset to a Legacy Airline – Skift This is a good, long…
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American Rolls Out Basic Economy With a Slightly Softer But Blunter Approach
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When United rolled out Basic Economy last year, it got a lot of flak for how it handled it (including some right her on the…
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Grand Velas Riviera Maya and the Long Flight Home (Trip Report)
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Yesterday I talked about my rough experience getting to Cancun. Fortunately that was the low point of the trip. My stay at the Grand Velas…
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My First Southwest International Flight to Cancun Could Have Gone Better (Trip Report)
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You may know that I’m one of the Condé Nast Top Travel Specialists. When the founder of that list, Wendy Perrin, left the magazine, she…
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Southwest Reveals Its Ft Lauderdale Plans as a Four-Way Battle Heats Up
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Southwest extended its schedule into the summer recently, and the biggest winner was clearly Ft Lauderdale. Southwest is adding six new cities and beefing up…
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3 Links I Love: The American Uniform Problem, Flying a Yak, JetBlue 100 Percent Wifi
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This week’s featured link: Full Text: Twin Hill’s letter to American Airlines’ attendants – USA Today If you haven’t been following, there has been quite…
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United is Retiring Its 747s By the End of the Year, and I’m Glad
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You can’t call yourself an airline dork if you don’t love the 747, and I can imagine that many of you shook your head in…
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The Plan to Fix JFK Focuses on the Wrong Thing
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We’ve heard a lot about the billions of dollars being sunk into New York’s LaGuardia Airport, but what about JFK? Oh don’t worry, there are…
