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With Smisek Forced Out, United’s New CEO Oscar Munoz Has a Unique Opportunity
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I didn’t expect it to happen like this. Over the last few years, people have called for now-former United President, Chairman, and CEO Jeff Smisek’s head for a variety of reasons. There have been merger…
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Republic May Have the Strangest Bankruptcy Filing Ever
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Have you ever heard of a company filing for bankruptcy protection so that it can increase its costs? I’m going to guess not. Yet that’s what Republic appears to be saying may happen. As its…
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My Speech About the State of the US Airline Industry
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Today is a holiday here in the US, so I normally wouldn’t post, but this seemed like a good opportunity to put up a video of a speech I gave recently. The Destination Marketing Association…
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Topic of the Week: How Important Should Operational Performance Be for Spirit?
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At the Boyd conference this week, Spirit gave a long presentation about its efforts to educate people about its unbundled strategy and why it’s good. I buy that, but other than a bullet point talking…
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Across the Aisle From Virgin America’s CEO on His Plan to Force Legacy Carriers to Let Him Use Their Feeder Networks
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I was at the International Aviation Forecast Summit (more commonly called the Boyd conference) earlier this week and had the chance to sit down with several airline execs. One that I hadn’t planned at all…
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SAS is Returning to Los Angeles, a City with Which it Has Surprisingly Deep Ties
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On March 14th of next year, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will begin flying to LAX for the first time in 20 years. While a new international route is generally not a huge deal at LAX, there…
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Who the F*&@ is OneJet?
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It’s been awhile since I’ve written one of these posts, because there really haven’t been many new entrants worth profiling. OneJet, however, caught my eye when it came on the scene earlier this year. This…
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Cranky on the Web – Getting Upgraded, Horrible Hotel Fees
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Flying Coach? 5 Tactics for Getting an Upgrade. – Entrepreneur I was asked for my thoughts on how to get upgrades without paying for them and in general I said it just doesn’t really happen…
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Topic of the Week: American Leaving Tel Aviv
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American has announced that it will drop the legacy US Airways flight to Tel Aviv early next year. The reason? The airline says it has lost a ton of money. Do you buy it or…
