Brett
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An Excellent Crew on My First American Eagle Embraer 175 Flight (Trip Report)
After a rough start on the ground, my flight up to San Francisco the day before was good and unremarkable. That’s how…
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Mokulele Says Silver Threatened the Airline if It Started Flights in Florida, So It Didn’t
And now for something completely different… I’m a sucker for an airline brawl, and here’s one that hasn’t gotten much press yet,…
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Winners and Losers of Delta’s Decision to Begin Selling Comfort+ As Its Own Fare
Nearly a year ago, Delta decided to go through a branding exercise and rename its products. Economy Comfort became Comfort+ and the…
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Cranky on the Web – Philly is Great (for Connections), Change Due to Metrojet Crash
PHL a top place to make connections – Philadelphia Inquirer OAG did a study looking at the biggest megahubs, and Philly was…
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3 Links I Love: Delta’s New Tax Strategy
Today’s featured link: Wall St analyst report: Delta may create overseas subsidiary – ATW Rumors abound that Delta is going to create…
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DOJ Tries to Prevent United From Acquiring More Newark Slots, and I’m Not Against That Plan
If there’s been one constant in the last few years, it’s my general opposition to what the feds have tried to do…
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American’s Domestic Departures from the Bradley Terminal at LAX Aren’t Ideal (Trip Report)
I traveled a fair bit in October, but this trip was the last one for awhile. A good friend of mine had…
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Understanding How American Airlines Sets Pricing
There are a lot of people who think they know how to set fares better than the people at American Airlines. This…
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Cranky on the Web – Talking Chinese Competition for Boeing and Airbus
China’s New Large Jet: Threat to Boeing, Airbus? – The Wall Street Journal “What’s New” Podcast I sat for a 5m27s interview…
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3 Links I Love – WOW air Gets Big, US Airways was Safe, and Porter’s Jet Plans Are In Trouble
Today’s featured link: WOW air to ADD Los Angeles and San Francisco ROUTES in 2016 – WOW air I was onboard with…
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Slowly But Surely, Expedia Catches Up with the Times on Flight Search
For many years, shopping for an airline ticket was about two things: price and schedule. More recently, that’s been changing. Airlines have…
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Travelport launches a new ‘We’re There’ commercial to showcase its Travel Commerce Platform (Sponsored Post)
As you know, Travelport has brought me out to a couple of events in previous years. There was the rollout of the…