Brett
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Talking With SAS as the Airline Brings Back Its LA to Copenhagen Flight
On January 13, an SAS A330 pulled into the gate at the Bradley Terminal in Los Angeles like most other days. The…
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Delta's New Miami Flights Are Almost Exactly What You'd Expect
When Delta decided to spend billions of dollars to wrestle LATAM away from American, it knew it had to invest in building…
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JetBlue Cuts Long Beach Again, Refuses to Rip the Band-Aid Off
If anyone understands what JetBlue is doing in Long Beach, please let me know. After trying all different kinds of things over…
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Cranky on the Web: JetBlue Cuts Long Beach Again, An Airlines We Lost Interview
JetBlue drops Oakland, shrinks Long Beach amid broader route shakeup – TPGJetBlue is cutting Long Beach again, and I chimed in for…
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3 Links I Love: Brutally Boeing, Flybe Saved, American Fights in Boston
This week’s featured link December 2019 Letter – richardaboulafia.comI keep wanting to write about the ever-worsening situation at Boeing, but I just…
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Forget Fancy Tech; Delta Can Win Way More Friends By Tackling the Change Fee
Dawn Gilbertson over at USA Today did some good work to discover that Delta may be considering shaking up the hated change…
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A Look at Parallel Reality, Delta's Wall of Messages Directed at Individual Travelers
Delta CEO Ed Bastian’s wide-ranging keynote last week rolled out all sorts of technological goodies, but there was only one that really…
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Strange Math: A Fight for 27, or 29, or 39 New Gates in Denver
When Denver International Airport replaced Stapleton in the 1990s, it was designed to grow. Granted, at the time, it was hard to…
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Cranky on the Web: Airplane Movie Mistakes
When movies make airplane fanatics cringe – SFGateThis should probably be titled “stuff that 99 percent of people in the world don’t…
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3 Links I Love: A Ukrainian Look at the Crash, Another Hall-of-Famer Retires, JetBlue Goes Green(er)
This Week’s Featured Link How Ukrainian plane crash went from ‘engine failure’ to ‘Iranian attack’ – Kyiv PostI find myself wondering if…
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Delta's CES Appearance Puts Things Into Perspective
Delta CEO Ed Bastian gave a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Tuesday. Let that sink in for a…
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The Cranky Flier Interview: Breakfast with the CEO of Ontario Airport
As the holidays approached, I sat down with Mark Thorpe, CEO of Ontario International Airport Authority. I’ve actually known Mark since college,…