Brett
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Differing Views on Whether the Agreement Between the US and UAE Is Worth Anything
After years of fighting, it looked like we had an official end to the dispute between the three biggest US airlines and…
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WestJet Goes Full Service, Releases Its 787 Interiors Along With a New Livery
Let’s pretend you didn’t read the title of this post, and you just randomly happened to see this photo: If you were…
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3 Links I Love: The Mexico City Airport Problem, Air France in Jeopardy, KLM and Mauritius
This week’s featured link: Critics Take Aim at Mexico City’s Wild New Airport – CityLab If there’s one thing everyone can agree…
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Thinking Through DOT’s Surprising FAA Oversight Memo
You may have heard yesterday something about how the Department of Transportation (DOT) was investigating maintenance practices at Allegiant and American. That’s…
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Alaska Prepares to Shuffle Airbus and Boeing Fleets
The “proudly all-Boeing” Alaska Airlines is no more. With the Virgin America merger done from a customer perspective, there are both Airbus…
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Southwest Continues to Slowly Trickle Out Details of Hawai’i Flying
I can’t decide whether to be annoyed or just plain impressed at how much Southwest has drawn out the announcement of its…
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Cranky on the Web: Kansas City’s New Terminal
Long-Awaited KC Airport Rebuild Moving Ahead – Icons of Infrastructure I had never heard of this publication previously, but I really enjoyed…
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3 Links I Love: WOW Gets Crazy, Hawaiian Stories, United’s New Coach Seat
This Week’s Featured Link: Iceland’s WOW air eyes first foreign hub, Asian routes – ch-aviation I can’t say this news about WOW…
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(Even More) Storm Clouds on the Horizon for Alitalia
You’ve probably been wondering when there would be a new post on Alitalia. After all, the airline was supposed to have been…
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The Deal That Brought a Delta Transatlantic Flight to Indianapolis
It’s not surprising to see airports put out incentive packages to bring in new flights, but there was something about the deal…
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Questionable Motives and Tactics Cast a Shadow on the 60 Minutes Allegiant Story
When word came down that 60 Minutes would be shining a spotlight on Allegiant’s safety record a couple weeks back, I assumed…
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Cranky on the Web: Dynamic Pricing’s Pros and Cons, More on JetBlue, Cranky Profiled
To work, dynamic pricing must be transparent – Travel Weekly Ok, so technically I wasn’t quoted in this piece, but instead the…