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3 Links I Love: Near Misses, Frontier Unhinged, Darwin Un-Etihaded, Norwegian Unprofitable
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This week’s featured link: NTSB: Air Canada close-call at SFO was even worse than first reported – San Jose Mercury News Any time I see general media talk about how hundreds of people were very…
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At Least Three Trends and a Lot of Noise in Frontier’s Massive New Route Announcement
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It looks like we have a new winner in the “most insane number of new cities/routes announced in a day” category. On Tuesday, Frontier rolled out 85 new routes and 21 new cities in what…
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Just A Miserable Day of Travel (Trip Report)
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There’s an annual trip I do with my cousin and brother’s family up to Sonoma to honor my late cousin Danny, but this year was different. Nobody else could make it. Still wanting to represent…
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Sun Country’s New CEO Could Remake the Airline, If Things Go Well
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Unless you live in Minneapolis, there’s a good chance you don’t even know the name Sun Country. But sure enough, after more than 30 years and several ownership changes, the airline continues to fly. It’s…
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Cranky on the Web: Buying Seats So They Can Be Resold
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United considers a new system to resell your seat for a higher price – CNN.com There seems to be a lot of interest in this new United test I wrote about on Thursday. As this…
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3 Links I Love: Banning Filming On Airplanes, GLO Shuts Down, Israel and Saudi Arabia Warm Up
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This week’s featured link: Fliers’ right to video gets push from recent airline incidents – Atlanta Journal-Constitution There’s a very interesting case brewing around the idea of whether or not people have the right to…
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Why United Might Like to Pay You in Advance to Take a Different Flight
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Bloomberg published an article yesterday about a little test United is said to be running that will pay people to give up a seat on a flight several days in advance. If you just read…
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All Eyes on Argentina (Hopefully to See Something Good)
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It’s not often that a highly-protectionist regime disappears leaving vast opportunities for air travel growth, but that’s what we’re seeing in Argentina right now. That’s good news is many ways, but it’s also going to…
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American and Alaska Start Behaving More Like Competitors as Partner Ties Loosen
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Remember how concerned the Department of Justice (DOJ) was about the American partnership reducing competition if Alaska and Virgin America were allowed to merge? Well, that was wrong. The merger has only helped to stoke…
