American
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3 Links I Love: American Speeds Up Bags, Delta Makes Comfort+ Magically Appear, Big Windows Rule
This week’s featured link: Competing for B(r)agging Rights – American Airlines Arrivals American puts out a weekly employee newsletter, and it sends…
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The American/China Southern and Delta/Korean Deals Carve Up the Future in Asia
Today I want to talk about a very important topic. Asia. Oh, shoot. In the heat of the moment I picked the…
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American to Paint 737 in Trump Shuttle Retro Livery
Not only do you get a Wednesday post this week, but you get a Saturday one as well. I just didn’t want…
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American Has Finally Made Mesa Improve Its CRJ-900 Interiors (Trip Report)
Surprise! It’s a Wednesday post. I have a big backlog on post content right now, so I thought I’d put this trip…
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American and United Fight to See Who Can Lose More Money in Small Cities
With international markets looking weaker for a variety of reasons, the US legacy carriers have turned their focus inward to domestic markets…
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Cranky on the Web: 20 Questions with Cranky, American’s Boarding Process, 2016 Ops
I forgot to post these last week, so here’s two week’s worth of stuff. 20 questions with The Cranky Flier (Brett Snyder)…
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American Tests Markets in Basic Economy Rollout While United Focuses on Fare Levels
A funny thing happened on Tuesday when both American and United officially filed their first Basic Economy fares in the market. (If…
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3 Links I Love: Another Defection From American to United, Frontier Trying to Fix Things, United’s New 777-300ER
This week’s featured link: Yet Another American Airlines Executive Leaves for United – Airways Word starting leaking out quickly on Wednesday. Andrew…
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Plenty of Inflight Entertainment Heading to Dallas (Trip Report)
Last week was the beginning of American’s Annual Leadership Conference (ALC). This is a great event where American brings in thousands of…
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The One Thing That Really Bothers Me About Basic Economy
With the imminent launch of Basic Economy on both United and American, we are on the cusp of a massive change that…
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American Thinks In-Seat Screens Aren’t Needed on Domestic Flights; I Flip Flop on the Issue
American is getting closer to taking delivery of its first 737 MAX (4 will be coming in the second half of this…
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3 Links I Love: BA CEO Interview, American is Airline of the Year, Buy On Board Problems
This week’s featured link: British Airways CEO Interview: How to Bring a Low-Cost Mindset to a Legacy Airline – Skift This is…