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Is It Better to Buy Old Airplanes or New Ones? (Ask Cranky)
Why don’t we start the week with a reader question. This one actually came in awhile back, but the question is most…
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United Introduces a Familiar, Reliable, but Risky Ad Campaign
Throughout history, some of the stickiest advertising jingles and slogans have come from airlines. United apparently likes the nostalgia, because it is…
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Southwest’s Ironic and Appropriate New Ad Campaign
Has everyone seen Southwest’s latest ad campaign? I’ll guess not since the new 60 second spot debuted in the unwatched first round…
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Airline Fee Outrage is Just a Symptom of the Real Problem: The Brand
I’m sick and tired of people complaining about airline fees. You might think this means I’m going to defend the airlines and…
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Cranky on the Web (June 21-25)
Horizon Air Backs Out of California and Into a Box of Its Own Making – BNET Horizon has made some big schedule…
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Advertising, Air New Zealand, Alliances, BNET, Labor Relations, LGB – Long Beach, Southwest, United, Westjet
This Week on BNET (May 25 – 29)
Long Beach Airport Garage and Terminal Plans Move Forward The airport is starting to put forth more concrete plans, and it’s sounding…
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Advertising, American, BNET, British Airways, Government Regulation, JetBlue, Mokulele, Republic, United, US Airways, Virgin Atlantic
This Week on BNET (March 23-27)
United Releases Weaker Revenue Guidance United announced that like Continental (though not quite as severe), it is seeing large revenue drops as…
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Advertising, BKG – Branson, BNET, Continental, Distribution, Hawaiian, JetBlue, US Airways, Virgin America
This Week on BNET (March 16 – 20)
Hawaiian Still Having Major On-Time Problems On the surface, Hawaiian appears to be doing well in the world of on-time performance, but…
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Advertising, AirTran, BNET, Continental, Inflight Entertainment, MKE – Milwaukee, Schedule Changes, Seats, Southwest, Technology, US Airways, V Australia, Virgin America
This Week on BNET (Feb 8 – 13)
Should Continental Continue to Host Events for Its Best Fliers? Continental just finished up its annual FlyerTalk event. It’s not cheap, but…
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Spirit Wants Ads on Flight Attendants, I Say “Why Not?”
Spirit has been pretty quiet lately, and that should scare all of us. This is an airline that thrives on getting itself…
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Spirit Brings Ads to Overhead Bins, Bulkheads, and More
To be honest, I’m really surprised that it took this long for an airline to do this, but if anyone was going…
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757, Advertising, Air New Zealand, American, Fares, Inflight Entertainment, Mergers/Finance, Schedule Changes, Seats, Singapore Airlines, Technology, United
This Week on BNET (Sep 8 – 12)
American Preparing to Expand International 757 Flying American is putting a true premium cabin on 18 757s so it can start doing…