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Air Canada’s Acquisition of Transat is a Forced Love Letter to Quebec
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It’s been a month since Air Canada and Transat announced they were in exclusive merger negotiations. Now the deal has officially been announced. Air Canada will pay C$13 a share — about C$520 million —…
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A Long Beach Story: JetBlue to the Bay Area, Southwest Back (Trip Report)
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After my last Scotland travelogue, this one is going to be pretty boring, but hey, it still involves a flight and it’s still worth writing. In yet another sign of just how quickly time passes,…
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3 Links I Love: More MAX Delays, Death of the Widebody, A Massive Regional Gap
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This week’s featured link: FAA and Boeing initially disagreed on severity of “catastrophic” 737 MAX software glitch – The Air CurrentBest I can tell, this article is outside the paywall for The Air Current, so…
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Eurowings Needs Luck as It Tries to Implement a New, Coherent Strategy
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Eurowings, Lufthansa’s lowish-cost group of airlines, is, to be polite, a mess. The cobbled-together jumble of airlines has resulted in losses — expected to be 4 to 6 percent this year — despite promises that…
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An Expanded Cranky Dorkfest LAX Comes September 7
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As you all know, Cranky Dorkfest LAX is a time-honored tradition with very little organization to it. You just show up, have an In-N-Out burger right by LAX, talk shop, and watch gigantic airplanes touch…
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Three Headwinds and Two Bright Spots for Norwegian via SVP Lars Sande
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I recently attended my first IPW, a massive travel trade show that is meant to showcase the USA to the world. It doesn’t generally have a lot of relevance for air travel which is why…
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The A321XLR Will Enable the 757 to Retire, But It is More Than Just a Replacement
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Boeing remains so bogged down with both the 737 MAX grounding and engine issues plaguing other fleets that it hasn’t been able to put out an airplane to truly replace the 757. Sure, early work…
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3 Links I Love: IAG Orders (and Renames) the MAX, Giving Clarity to MH370, Major Merger Restrictions
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This week’s featured link: IAG signs letter of intent for 200 Boeing 737-8 and 737-10 – IAG NewsroomThere is so much to say about this that I don’t even know where to start. Note that…
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A More Detailed Look at United’s ConnectionSaver
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It’s been truly enjoyable watching United’s rise from the extended depths of merger hell, and the airline’s recent roll-out of ConnectionSaver — though relatively minor in its impact — stands out as a visible hallmark…
