Brett
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Flying the Line, From a Pilot’s Perspective (Guest Post)
Cranky is on a much-needed vacation and won’t be responding to emails this week. Fortunately, before I started drinking too heavily, I…
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Tales From an Airline Reservations Agent (Guest Post)
Cranky is on a much-needed vacation and won’t be responding to emails this week. Fortunately, before I started drinking too heavily, I…
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Cranky on the Web (August 30-September 3)
Remember, I’m on vacation starting now. Be back with you again next week. —- Why Continental and United Chose Southwest to Curry…
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Delta Maintenance is Actually Growing and Profitable
Many of you know that I’ll be going on vacation next week, but I thought I would squeeze in one more Delta…
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Delta Brings Me to Visit the Mother Ship (Trip Report)
As mentioned yesterday, I had the chance to go visit Delta this week for a visit. While I’m putting together posts from…
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Visiting Delta
Late last week I was sitting at home taking care of three dogs, helping concierge clients, and realizing that my wife wouldn’t…
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Continental, DCA – Washington/National, Delta, LGA – New York/La Guardia, Mergers/Finance, United, US Airways
Feds Inflict Far Less Pain on Continental and United Than Attempted with the US Airways/Delta Slot Swap
In the immortal words of Dennis Hopper (rest in peace, you crazy bastard) . . . pop quiz, hotshot. Let’s say that…
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Southwest To Fly to Newark Thanks to United/Continental Merger
On Friday afternoon, Southwest announced it came to an agreement with Continental to lease 36 slots at Newark. Holy crap. Has hell…
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Alaska Airlines, American, BNET, Continental, Horizon, Mergers/Finance, Safety/Security, United, US Airways
Cranky on the Web (August 21-27)
Some feel blue as United, Continental wedding mixes old, new – Chicago Tribune The Trib looks at the United/Continental branding efforts, and…
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Travel Tools I (Might) Love: Hipmunk
If you haven’t heard of Hipmunk, it’s no surprise. The site only launched in the last couple of weeks, but it’s off…
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David Neeleman on What’s Wrong with JetBlue and How to Fix It (Across the Aisle, Part 3)
And now, it’s time to talk JetBlue. When I read a recent article where David Neeleman talked about JetBlue, I thought he…
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David Neeleman on Azul’s Decision to Use Embraers and ATR Turboprops (Across the Aisle, Part 2)
Welcome back for part two of my talk with David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue and now current founder and CEO of Azul…