American
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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…
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American Rolls Out Basic Economy With a Slightly Softer But Blunter Approach
When United rolled out Basic Economy last year, it got a lot of flak for how it handled it (including some right…
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3 Links I Love: The American Uniform Problem, Flying a Yak, JetBlue 100 Percent Wifi
This week’s featured link: Full Text: Twin Hill’s letter to American Airlines’ attendants – USA Today If you haven’t been following, there…
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Cranky on the Web: American in Phoenix
American Airlines is shrinking in Phoenix – The Arizona Republic This is a great, long look by Dawn Gilbertson at what American…
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Reviewing Your 2016 Predictions and Making Your 2017 Picks
With 2016 coming to a close (thankfully, finally), it’s time to go back and review the predictions you made waaaay back at…
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American Turns Around Its Operational Performance in LA While Southwest Continues to Falter
What a difference a few months can make. Back at the end of June, I followed up on some leads about American…
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DOT Continues to Spit Fire at American and Qantas, So They’ve Walked Away
Before the Thanksgiving holiday, I wrote about how the Department of Transportation (DOT) had tentatively denied American and Qantas’s joint venture plans.…