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Topic of the Week: The FAA Steps Up Oversight at United
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The headline in the Wall Street Journal says “FAA Calls Out ‘Systemic’ Hazard at United.” (You can Google the title to get to the article if you aren’t a subscriber.) The FAA has raised some…
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How Virgin America Will Fly A320s to Hawai’i When Nobody Else Has Even Tried
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We’ve heard rumors about it for years, and now it’s finally going to happen. Virgin America will start flying from San Francisco to Honolulu on November 2 and from San Francisco to Kahului (Maui) on…
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The Fight Over Toronto’s Billy Bishop City Airport Escalates With Air Canada Taking a Stand
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If you’re looking for an entertaining airport fight, then you might want to look north toward Canada. Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport lies right near downtown on a small island in Lake Ontario. This airport has…
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If There’s Going to Be Another US Airline Strike, It’ll Probably Be at Allegiant
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There’s been a lot of talk about how consolidation will mean the end of the airline strike in the US. After all, these airlines are now so big that a strike at any one of…
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Cranky on the Web – Eliminating Turbulence, Planning a Company Retreat
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Altitude Adjustment – APEX Experience Magazine This was really fun to research. I looked into the different technologies being used to help eliminate turbulence. Pretty fascinating stuff, actually. In the Trenches: Planning a Company Retreat…
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Topic of the Week: American Eliminates Customer Relations Phone Number
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Sounds like American has decided to eliminate its customer relations phone number. Note, this isn’t reservations. This is just for customer relations, which deals with problems. The website now shows you can use snail mail…
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Delta Announces It Will Stop Informing Travelers How Many Miles They’ve Earned
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I know today isn’t a normal posting day, but this news was important enough for me to move up the posting schedule by 24 hours. Delta is making some big changes to SkyMiles. Really, it…
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Delta Keeps Its Seattle-Haneda Flight But It Can No Longer Squat On It
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An interesting decision came out of the Department of Transportation (DOT) last week in regards to the fight over Delta’s Seattle-Haneda flight. In short, DOT said Delta could keep it, but only if it actually…
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Thinking About Mental Illness and the Crash of Germanwings Flight 9525
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When an airplane goes down, it usually takes a long time before we know what happened. So it’s shocking on many levels that we already seem to be zeroing in on what happened to Germanwings…
