Brett
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Frontier’s Entrance Into Miami Seems Insane, But It Might Not Be
I’ve railed against Miami International Airport and its absurdly pricey airport projects in the past. All this drunken spending gave Ft Lauderdale…
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United is Doing a Better Job of Reaccommodating Schedule Changes (Tales From the Field)
I have a very strange Tales From the Field post this week. What’s so odd about it? It doesn’t involve me fighting…
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Spirit and Frontier Seem to Be Up for a Fight
For years, Spirit has said that it has hundreds of markets it can serve profitably in the US. With so much room…
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Cranky on the Web (September 21 – October 3)
Some of these are a bit old because I didn’t post last Saturday while I was on vacation. But none of these…
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Topic of the Week: Will PEOPLExpress Fly Again?
That didn’t take long. PEOPLExpress has already shut down thanks to what it says was a problem with airplanes from its contractor…
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Eight First Class Tickets on Delta to Maui for the Price of One (Trip Report)
For the third year in a row, we had decided to take a late Summer/early Fall vacation to Maui. Two years ago,…
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Dallas Tells Delta to Take a Hike, No Room For the Airline at Love Field
Remember how the Department of Justice (DOJ) was so concerned with preserving competition at Dallas/Love Field as part of the American/US Airways…
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The Air France Pilot Strike Ends With Absolutely Nothing Resolved
When I left on vacation last week, Air France’s pilots were striking. When I returned on Saturday, nothing had changed. Yesterday, however,…
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Cranky on the Web (September 15 – 19) and Some Reading Material for the Next Week
Usually when I go on vacation, I try to either write a bunch of posts myself or wrangle up some guest posts.…
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Topic of the Week: What You Would Like to See From Southwest
I’ve written this week about how Southwest needs to figure out what it wants to be, but let’s turn the tables. What…
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My Last Trip on the Old Southwest (Trip Report)
There was something about this trip that felt like the end of an era. On the eve of the repeal of the…
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How Southwest Tanked Its Operational Performance… And Then Took a Year to Fix It
In early 2013, Southwest realized that demand was strong. Faced with a set number of airplanes, it had two choices. It could…