Aircraft
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Cranky on the Web: Southwest Shifts From the 737-300 to the MAX
Max 8 a jumbo upgrade for Southwest Airlines – Houston Chronicle The last week has been a huge change for Southwest. First…
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If This is How US Trade Law Is Supposed to Work, Then I’m Not a Fan
219.63% If the decision from the Department of Commerce goes final, that’s the amount of the countervailing duty (CVD) that an American-based…
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3 Links I Love: Dorkfest is Tomorrow, Slamming Boeing, The End of Avatar
This week’s featured link: Featured Map for 22 September 2017: Cranky Flier’s Dorkfest 2017 – Great Circle Mapper The day is here!…
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An Update From Paris: Airbus Puts Lipstick on Its A380 While Boeing Keeps Stretching Its 737
This week is the Paris Air Show, the pinnacle of the air show circuit (alternating with Farnborough every other year). It’s usually…
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3 Links I Love: Boeing’s MoM Gets a Boost, JetBlue Feels Pain in Atlanta, More on the Port Authority Scandal
This week’s featured link: United Looks at Boeing’s ‘Paper Plane’ and Likes What It Sees – Bloomberg Bloomberg has been cranking out…
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3 Links I Love: A380 for Risk Takers, Fixing LAX Gridlock, Birds at Garbage in Lebanon
This week’s featured link: A380, from flagship to LCC mass transport – Leeham News and Comment Here’s an interview with the head…
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United is Retiring Its 747s By the End of the Year, and I’m Glad
You can’t call yourself an airline dork if you don’t love the 747, and I can imagine that many of you shook…
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3 Links I Love: Europe’s Fight With the US, Airbus Politics and Alabama, Solari Boards Down Under
This week’s featured link: Europe brings US to court for delaying cheap Cork to Boston flights – Irish Central I figure I’ve…
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Nobody Wants the A380 and That’s Breeding Creativity
There isn’t anything quite like the A380. The airplane is enormous, and frankly, it is a true delight to fly (as a…
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3 Links I Love: Interviewing Ed Bastian, MD-80s Go Bye Bye, LAX in the 1960s
This week’s featured link: Delta Air Lines CEO on why he still flies in the back of the plane – Marketplace Here’s…
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Southwest Has Redesigned The Interiors of Its New 737s, Let’s Take a Look Inside
In my trip report last week, I mentioned that Southwest had brought me up to Seattle so I could go crawl around…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest’s Inexcusable IT Meltdown, Why Concorde Failed, Boeing 100
Hope you like videos, because this week is full of them. This week’s featured link: Live from the Listening Center discussing recovery…