Brett
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Southwest Uses AirTran to Grow Flying in Memphis
Southwest’s latest schedule is out, and guess who is paying attention to Memphis? It’s not technically Southwest yet, but Southwest is using…
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Cranky on the Web (February 4 – 8)
In the Trenches: The Neglected Corners of the Business – Intuit Small Business Blog Though the concierge business is where I spend…
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Topic of the Week: Delta and Starwood Crossover Awards
Yesterday, Delta and Starwood Hotels announced crossover awards where elite members in each program get benefits in the other. What do you…
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Frontier Makes a Pragmatic, Unsurprising, Yet Sad Move to Outsource Airport Staff
For years, you could hear Frontier employees talk as if they were part of one big family. It was that level of…
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Southwest and AirTran Quietly Begin Codesharing
It has been more than 2 years and 4 months since Southwest announced it would purchase AirTran. Since that time, the two…
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Layoffs Are Far From a Necessity in a US Airways and American Merger
There were certainly some, shall we say, spirited comments on my American/US Airways merger post last week, but there were a couple…
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Cranky on the Web (January 28 – February 1)
How to Protect Yourself from Antiquated Airline Computers That Could Ruin Your Trip – PTMoney.com I talked a little more about how…
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Topic of the Week: Which Airline Had the Best Q4 Results? Worst?
The big US airlines have reported fourth quarter earnings, so now it’s your turn to play financial analyst. Which one had the…
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Why Haven’t US Airways and American Announced a Merger?
Here we are at the end of January and a merger between US Airways and American still has not been announced. This…
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A Terrible Way to Rank Airline Safety
Have you seen the supposed “safety rankings” for 2012 from the Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC)? I know some of…
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Too Cool for School on Virgin America (Trip Report)
We had to head to Dallas for a wedding, and it ended up being a super cool trip. Why do I say…
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A Death in the Online Aviation Family
It’s a rare day that I post on a Sunday, but it’s an even rarer day when we lose a very young…