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Cranky on the Web (January 6 – 10)
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Higher Fees Actually Do Mean Lower Fares, At Least For One Airline – Conde Nast Daily Traveler There is nothing that showers the power of fees like looking at Spirit’s fares over time. It shows…
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Topic of the Week: United Gets Ready to Make SFO Work Better
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We’re finally getting toward the end of United’s tough times at SFO. For awhile now, the operation has been split between its home in Terminal 3 and Terminal 1. When the E gates (formerly occupied…
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Delta Cabin Upgrades Show the Outline of a Domestic Product Plan
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Delta may not have announced it this way, but with yesterday’s decision to rework the cabins on some of the fleet, the airline seems to have decided to put forth the beginnings of a product…
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How Traveling This Past Week Has Snowballed Into a Complete Mess
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It’s not uncommon for a big winter storm to mess with travel plans, but this past week can best be described as a convergence of suck. A ton of different things came together to create…
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I May Not Like American’s Livery But I Get Why It’s Staying
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We now know how American will paint its airplanes. Just over half of the 60 percent of American’s employees that voted chose to keep the current tail with the big, obnoxious flag on it. This…
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Cranky on the Web (December 30 – January 3)
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In the Trenches: Celebrating Our Success – Intuit Small Business Blog Cranky Concierge deals with a lot of unhappy people in tough situations, and that can be exhausting. So it’s important for us to take…
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Topic of the Week: Your Predictions for 2014
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Yes, I know. The topic of the week is a day early this week. Why? Because I’m trying to lay low and take a bit of a breather this week after a hectic December. I’m…
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2013 Flying Summary
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It’s for the year-end travel summary. This year saw a big jump in travel for me. I flew more more miles in 2013 than any year since 2005, the last time I actually worked for…
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Airlines We Lost in 2013
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Another year has come to a close, and with it, so have the lives of several airlines. There weren’t any spectacular shutdowns as we’ve seen in previous years, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t a…
