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United Has a Shot at The Regional Flexibility It Craves
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At the International Aviation Forecast Summit last week, United President Scott Kirby was unsurprisingly in high demand. After his presentation, he took a few minutes to sit with a handful of media so we could…
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3 Links I Love: Voting on the Future of MEX, Essential Air Service Saved, Killing the Train
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This week’s featured link: Lopez Obrador Commits to Unorthodox Vote on $13 Billion Airport – Bloomberg The Mexico City airport saga continues. The incoming president promised he’d stop constructing the new airport (which is already…
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Chicago Loses Asia, New York Loses Europe, and Philly Goes Boutique in American Network Changes
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I spent most of this week at the Boyd Conference (properly known as the International Aviation Forecast Summit). While I have plenty of posts to compile from that, it’s something that wasn’t announced at the…
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A Delta 737-800 Brings Me Home From the Carolinas (Trip Report)
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After a week bouncing around the Carolinas, it was time to come home. As is always the case when we return from visiting the in-laws in North Carolina, we had the choice of a connection…
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On-Time Performance Has Suffered This Summer, But Some Aircraft Fared Better Than Others
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Thanks to a mess of bad weather in the eastern half of the country, it has been a rough summer for airline operations. I swear it’s been so bad lately that any day I don’t…
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3 Links I Love: Sabre Warms to NDC, OneJet and WOW Air Face Trouble
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This week’s featured link: Sabre Agrees to Pilot New Technologies With American Airlines and Other Travel Giants – Skift Distribution-giant Sabre spent a long, long time fighting against the use of NDC to modernize airline…
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If You Think Fares Are Confusing for Travelers, What About the Poor Pricing Analyst?
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When I first came out of college in 1999, I started work as an analyst in pricing & tariffs for America West Airlines. I realize I sound like an old man when I say this,…
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The Grave Threat Posed by Aircraft Thieves (or Not)
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When I first heard that a non-pilot had stolen a Horizon Air Dash-8 Q400 and flew around Seattle for an hour, I couldn’t help but be impressed. How could someone who doesn’t have a license…
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Tokyo Hub? Who Needs a Tokyo Hub?
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For many years, Delta seemed like an airline in search of an Asia strategy while its competitors pushed forward definitively. Now that the Korean Air joint venture is in place, however, the combined Delta/Korean efforts…
