American
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Delta’s Reason For Killing Its Interline Agreement With American Makes No Sense
American and Delta have announced that they’ll be ending their interline agreement on September 14. I immediately assumed this was Delta’s doing,…
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Topic of the Week: American Leaving Tel Aviv
American has announced that it will drop the legacy US Airways flight to Tel Aviv early next year. The reason? The airline…
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The Three-Month Countdown to the Disappearance of US Airways Begins Saturday
This Saturday is an incredibly important day in the merger between US Airways and American. The airline has announced that the three-month…
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Delta Walks Away From the Seattle to Haneda Route, Forces American to Lose Money
It’s hard to fathom just how bad the Seattle to Tokyo/Haneda route must have performed for Delta. After all, Delta isn’t shy…
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American and US Airways are Doing Their Reservation System Migration Differently and It’s Paying Off
When it comes to airline mergers, there is no bigger single milestone from a traveler’s perspective than the migration to a single…
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Two Hours of Fighting About the Middle East Carriers, and I Still Can’t Get Excited
At last week’s CAPA conference, the highlight was supposed to be the panel debate between US and Middle East carriers over whether…
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How American Rebanked Its Chicago and Dallas Operations and Why It’s a Good Thing
You may remember that late in 2013, the new management team at American decided the time had come to rebank its big…
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Topic of the Week: American’s CEO Gets Paid Only in Stock
American CEO Doug Parker said yesterday he was giving up his annual salary and bonus and instead just going to take his…
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Topic of the Week: American Eliminates Customer Relations Phone Number
Sounds like American has decided to eliminate its customer relations phone number. Note, this isn’t reservations. This is just for customer relations,…
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Delta Keeps Its Seattle-Haneda Flight But It Can No Longer Squat On It
An interesting decision came out of the Department of Transportation (DOT) last week in regards to the fight over Delta’s Seattle-Haneda flight.…
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The First Big Test: How American and US Airways Prepared to Merge Their Frequent Flier Programs This Weekend
In any airline merger, there are a million different things that have to come together and countless decisions to be made. But…
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The Argument That US Carriers Should Stop Complaining About Middle East Carriers and Compete on Product Is Garbage
The fight between the US carriers and the Middle East carriers is just starting to ramp up, but people are quickly taking…