Brett
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Death of the Airline Industry Delayed
For once, there is a delay in the airline industry that nearly everyone is happy about. After much haggling with the Department…
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Southwest Moves Toward a Hub Model With May Schedule
Southwest has been busy cutting its schedule like everyone else, and for May it’s down by more than half to about 2,000…
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Do Airlines Have a Duty to Consider Morality in Pricing?
It feels like opposite day. For years, people have blamed airlines for jacking up fares in a time of crisis, but now……
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Cranky on the Web: Refund Madness, Small Business Struggles, Looking for Deals
DOT tells airlines to refund canceled flights, but don’t count on cash just yet – Los Angeles TimesI had a lot of…
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3 Links I Love: Awful Data Points, Parking Airplanes on Opposite Sides of the World
Things are changing fast. Stay up-to-date.Subscribe to the Cranky Coronavirus Daily Update This week’s featured link Impact of COVID-19: Data Updates –…
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Alaska, JetBlue Get Creative to Satisfy Government Stimulus Requirements
The absurdity of the government stimulus minimum service requirements continue to cause problems, but Alaska and JetBlue are getting creative in finding…
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American’s To Bring Back International Flying Slowly, In Waves
I know I keep focusing on American lately, but that’s because the airline has been putting out more complete schedules than the…
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Analyzing American’s New, Smaller May Schedule
As of this weekend, American will serve 299 destinations in May down from the 338 planned previously. But that decrease is really…
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Cranky on the Web: DOT Weighs In On Refunds, Rebuilding Networks
Airline cancel your flight due to coronavirus crisis? You’re still due a refund, DOT says – USA TodayDOT now says that airlines…
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3 Links I Love: Just How Empty Those Planes are, Virgin Australia on the Brink, Delta Clean
This week’s featured link Ethics of Airline Bailouts in Spotlight With Virgin-Qantas Feud – BloombergQuite the brawl going on down under. Virgin…
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Shut It Down
On Monday, I talked about the $50 billion airline stimulus that the government rolled out. One of the provisions in both the…
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Southwest to Offer Preboarding To Those Willing to Help Prevent COVID-19 With New Shoot’nBoard Program
There is very little that preoccupies Southwest travelers’ minds more before a flight than wondering if they’ll be able to get the…