Brett
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Argentina Earns the Cranky Jackass Award for Propping Up Aerolineas Argentinas at the Expense of Real Competition
There have been so many good news stories about aviation in Latin America lately that it seems like everything is going well.…
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Virgin America Announces Plan to Rebrand as Alitalia America
This one certainly came out of left field, but I think it’s a great move. Virgin America announced today that it has…
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Cranky on the Web (March 25 – 29)
Southwest Airlines: We’re Not Really About Cheap Flights Anymore – Time I spoke with Brad Tuttle at Time as a follow-up to…
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Topic of the Week: Lufthansa Thinking About Long Haul, Low Cost Carrier
It looks like Lufthansa is batting around the idea of starting up a long haul low cost carrier. *sigh* This has never…
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The View is Getting Better at JFK’s T4 – Behind the Scenes of Delta’s Expansion (Guest Post)
Anyone flown through Terminal 3 at JFK on Delta lately? Fortunately, that miserable experience is soon coming to an end with the…
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Can Wifi Really Be a Differentiator for JetBlue?
When JetBlue first launched, it used inflight entertainment as one of the greatest initial product differentiators of all time, and now it’s…
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And Now For a Really Stupid Lawsuit
I received a request from Janet Cho at the Cleveland Plain Dealer to comment on a story last week about a man…
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Cranky on the Web (March 18 – 22)
No More Lost Bags? US Airways Now Lets You Track Luggage in Real Time – Conde Nast Daily Traveler US Airways has…
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Topic of the Week: JetBlue Goes Premium
In annoyingly terse brief this week, JetBlue announced that it would introduce a “premium transcon product.” I call it annoying because they…
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Southwest’s Ironic and Appropriate New Ad Campaign
Has everyone seen Southwest’s latest ad campaign? I’ll guess not since the new 60 second spot debuted in the unwatched first round…
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I Wrote Another Book – You Can Win a Copy
Long time readers of the blog know that several years ago, I wrote Where the Hell Am I Going?, a book about…
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Boeing’s Fix for the 787 Battery Problems is Ready
I’ve been pretty quiet about the 787 as airplanes continue to sit on the ground, collecting dust, waiting for a fix to…