Brett
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Southwest Planes Get “Bags Fly Free” Tattoo To Prove the Airline is Serious
When it comes to bag fees, Southwest is always fighting an uphill battle. Yes, customers love the fact that they don’t charge…
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British Airways Takes Another Strike After Posting Huge Losses
I can’t imagine that the juxtaposition is lost on anyone. The British Airways flight attendants are celebrating the next round of strikes…
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Cranky on the Web (May 17 – 21)
Union-Vote Rule Change: Bad News for Non-Union Delta, JetBlue – BNET The National Mediation Board made some rule changes recently and it…
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Republic CEO Bryan Bedford on Religion and the Business (Across the Aisle)
Today I bring you the third and last installment of my interview with Republic CEO Bryan Bedford. In this piece, we spend…
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Midwestern Swing on JetBlue and Frontier (Trip Report)
This trip served a couple of purposes. First, I was meeting up with some airline friends in Chicago for a get together.…
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Republic CEO Bryan Bedford on Fees, Competition in the Hubs, and More (Across the Aisle)
I’m back with part two of my conversation with Bryan Bedford, CEO of Republic (which owns Frontier, among others). In part one,…
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Taste-Testing Airline Food at Amazing Food Creations
Would you willfully submit yourself to taste-test a bunch of airline food? Probably not, but I did this past week thanks to…
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Republic CEO Bryan Bedford On the Branded Strategy (Across the Aisle)
Last week, I had the chance to sit down with Bryan Bedford, CEO of Republic, in the carrier’s northwest Indianapolis headquarters. (It’s…
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Cranky on the Web (May 10 – 14)
New Tokyo Haneda Flights: Some Strange Choices, Courtesy of the Feds – BNET Flight awards were handed out by the feds for…
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The Good and Bad of MegaBus (Trip Report)
I’m still in the middle of my Midwestern swing, and I had an interesting experience that I thought was worth posting about…
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Southwest Advances into South Carolina
Southwest is on the march through the South; however, instead of burning down Atlanta like others have done, the airline will simply…
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US Airways Makes Further Strides in Baggage Handling with Planeside Scanning
Last year, I wrote about how US Airways had started scanning bags at planeside. When I was in Phoenix with the airline…