Brett
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Cranky on the Web: American’s Overblown Pilot Problem, Holiday Travel Deals
American Airlines updates worried travelers after glitch left thousands of holiday flights without pilots – Dallas Morning News (Paywall) When there’s a…
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3 Links I Love: Retirement of a Salesman, Interviews with KLM and Southwest CEOs
This week’s featured link: Leahy reflects on 33 years at Airbus – Leeham News For those who don’t know, one of the…
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WestJet Just Keeps Adding Complexity, And Somehow It Works
In general, complexity is the enemy of any good low-cost airline. Sure, by nature, legacy carriers have complexity in spades, and that’s…
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How Does That Movie Make It To the Airplane? Global Eagle Explains (Sponsored Post)
This is the kind of sponsored post that I really like doing. Global Eagle had me come down to take a tour…
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Southern Airways Express Serves Small Cities… And Makes Money
My ongoing, unorganized series looking at the demise of small city service in the US has been pretty depressing. Sure there are…
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Delta Swaps International and Domestic Aircraft To Fight the Low Cost Carriers
It was more than a year and a half ago when I wrote this about JetBlue’s first big expansion of its Mint…
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Flat Beds on the American 767-300, Then Coach Home (Trip Report)
As I wrote yesterday, it’s a quiet Thanksgiving week, so I’m posting my recent trip reports to get them out of the…
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JetBlue Mint, Take 2: Now With Food! (Trip Report)
It’s Thanksgiving week, so I’ve decided to lie low and post two trip reports today and tomorrow. No post Thursday, and I’ll…
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3 Links I Love: KLM Not LinkedIn, California Pacific Tries Again, the Delta 747 Goodbye
This week’s featured link: KLM Lets The Customer Decide… – Meanwhile at KLM This is a really interesting read. KLM has one…
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Long Beach and the Unsustainable Southwest Effect
On June 5, 2016, Southwest launched its first flights from Long Beach with 4 daily to Oakland. With a year’s worth of…
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Riding into the Sunset With The Last United 747
Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that United retired its 747s last week with one remarkable last flight. I was…
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How the Experts Think We Can Improve Small Community Air Service
The problem of declining small city service is far from being resolved, and I have a few posts lined up to address…