American
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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…
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My First Flight in American’s New Slimline Seats (Trip Report)
By my standards, I’ve been traveling a lot. It’s been a draining and emotional couple weeks, and to make things more challenging,…
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US Airlines Ramp Up Effort to Stifle Middle East Carriers – What Do They Know?
It looks like American, Delta, and United are getting a little nervous about those fast-growing carriers in the Middle East. It’s bad…
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Topic of the Week: Alaska Wants to Give American Its Mexico City Authority
Here’s an interesting little tidbit that I came across on airliners.net this week. Alaska currently flies LAX-Mexico City once a day. It…
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A Missed Opportunity: How American Should Have Responded to This Unhappy Traveler (Ask Cranky)
This is a different kind of Ask Cranky. What started as a question about why American/US Airways keeps fares so high in…
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Strange Bedfellows: Korean to Codeshare with American
Airlines announce codesharing relationships all the time, and I usually don’t give them a second look. But when an announcement came through…
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The Best Kind of Delay (Trip Report)
A couple months ago, I was emailing with some friends and we jokingly talked about doing a guys’ weekend in Cabo. We…
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American’s Remote Terminal at LAX and the Southwest I Love (Trip Report)
I had to do a last minute day trip up to the Bay Area, and I had a ton of options. After…
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Why American’s Pilots are Getting Riled Up About the Affordable Care Act
I can’t say I ever expected to be writing a post about healthcare here on the blog, but sure enough, here we…
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It’s Time for American’s Pilots To Decide If They Want More Money or Not
We all know how American’s flight attendant contract negotiations turned out. A slim majority of flight attendants actually decided they preferred a…
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Apparently Travel With Kids Gets Worse Before It Gets Better (Trip Report)
Words cannot explain how much I was dreading this trip. I’ve had trouble with my son on airplanes before, but with him…