Brett
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American Significantly Increases Coach Award Space On Connecting Flights
At media day earlier this year, American admitted that it needed to loosen up on award availability. The airline has recently, quietly,…
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My Life on a 747
As anyone who happens to be flying to or through Atlanta this week knows, it has not been a good week for…
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Wondering How Sun Country is Going to Make Its New Owners A Lot of Money
Last week Sun Country was sold by the Davis brothers to funds managed by private-equity-giant Apollo. Apollo isn’t in this just to…
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Cranky on the Web: What’s Behind The Higher Bag Fee Revenue?
Fliers paid a record $1.2 billion in baggage fees last quarter – CNN Money When CNN asked me why airline bag fees…
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3 Links I Love: Horizon Stabilizes, Delta Flight Attendant Reality Show, Canada Retaliates
This week’s featured link: Horizon Air operations stabilize as crisis abates – The Seattle Times It’s good to see a little bit…
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Trump Gets Tough on the Middle East Airlines… Or Possibly Not
If you saw the news earlier this week that President Trump had addressed the gulf carrier subsidy issue, you could be forgiven…
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easyJet Makes Its Move on Berlin
When airberlin finally went under, there was a great deal of concern that Lufthansa would pick up all the pieces and leave…
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Delta’s Empire-Building Continues With a WestJet Joint Venture
Delta continued its efforts to take over the world last week with the announcement of its anticipated joint venture with Canada’s WestJet.…
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3 Links I Love: Berlin’s Terrible Airport Problem, Alitalia Fiddles While Rome Burns, Skytrax Shenanigans
This week’s featured link: The ongoing saga of Berlin’s unfinished airport – CNN Travel I’ve been watching with disbelief as the normally-efficient…
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The Best Part About the New Emirates First Class Is Its Virtual Windows
I don’t know about you, but when I saw the new Emirates First Class product, I gasped. No, no. I’m not talking…
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American’s Rationale For Expanding Basic Economy to Mexico and the Caribbean Sounds Like Garbage, But It’s Probably Not
Though American and United both began rolling out Basic Economy fares around the same time, United rushed it and made mistakes. American,…
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LEVEL Goes Up, OpenSkies Goes Down
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something poignant about IAG’s decision to shut down its OpenSkies subsidiary and…