American
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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.…
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DOT Gets Strangely Feisty in the Administration’s Dying Days, Denies Qantas and American’s Joint Venture
With less than two month’s left until a new administration takes over here in the US, it looks like the Department of…
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Delta Introduces Premium Economy to Replace Comfort+ on Certain Aircraft
Nearly a year ago, American announced that it would launch a true premium economy product on international aircraft. This was surprising for…
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3 Links I Love: Allegiant’s Safety Problems, Young Airline Love, Pulling for Clinton
This week’s featured link: Breakdown at 30,000 Feet – Tampa Bay Times Kudos to the folks at the Tampa Bay Times for…
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3 Links I Love: An Unsolved Eastern Crash, American’s Business Class Saga, Long Beach Customs
This week’s featured link: What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980? – Outside Here’s a good, long read about the crash of…
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Delta’s Transcon Strategy Gives It More Flexibility to Fly Flat Beds From LA to DC
While I was gone, you may have seen that Delta announced it was going to start flying from Los Angeles to Washington/National…
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3 Links I Love: Air Berlin Restructures, American’s CIO, So Long Vin
Far-reaching restructuring of airberlin to deliver long-term growth – Air Berlin The long-rumored restructuring is here. Air Berlin, long shredding money, is…
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Cranky on the Web: Loyalty and American, Emirates Seat Fee
Loyalty only goes so far as American Airlines, others revamp rewards programs – Dallas Morning News This was a broader look at…
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PSA and Another American Regional Boost Pay to Combat the Expected Pilot Shortage
It looks like the regional airline fight to hire enough pilots continues. Two of American’s wholly-owned regionals, Envoy and PSA, have announced…
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American’s President Goes to United and Both Airlines May Benefit
I know I said I was going to do the first half of my 9 Airports, 1 Day trip report today, but,…
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3 Links I Love: Air New Zealand Becomes Less Unique, American’s Bad Baggage Rules, Airport Restaurants
This week’s featured link: Air New Zealand to discontinue premium economy Spaceseat – Business Traveller This is a sad day. Air New…