Delta
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Delta CEO Richard Anderson’s Retirement Caps a Remarkable Nine Years for the Airline
As had been rumored, Delta CEO Richard Anderson has announced he’ll be “retiring” on May 2 of this year. I put that…
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3 Links I Love: Unlimited Flight Subscriptions, Privatizing Air Traffic Control, Southwest Seating Showdown
This week’s featured link: Get Ready to Binge-Fly With Unlimited Flight Subscriptions – Bloomberg OneGo has an interesting idea. You pay a…
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Cranky on the Web: Last Class, The Legacy of Richard Anderson, SeaPort’s Pain
The Opening Bell (Brett Snyder, Cranky Flier Interview) – WGN Radio I spoke with WGN Radio about the so-called “Last Class” idea…
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Delta Ramps Up Its “All-or-Nothing” Strategy in Tokyo
Thinking about countries that have open skies agreements with the US, Japan is undoubtedly the least “open” of all. That’s because the…
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Delta’s Plan to Move to Terminals 2 and 3 at LAX Would Solve a Lot Of Problems
Late last week, Delta CEO Richard Anderson decided to let slip in his message to the troops that Delta had signed a…
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Alaska Airlines, Alitalia, American, Bombardier, Delta, Etihad, Frontier, JetBlue, Malaysia Airlines, Southwest, Spirit, UnitedReviewing Your 2015 Predictions
It’s a relatively new tradition here on the blog, but I like it. At the end of each year, I ask for…
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Book Flights Early If You Want to Take Advantage of Schedule Changes (And Show Airlines How Much You Hate Them)
You probably think you know the right time of day, day of week, time of year, etc in order to get the…
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3 Links I Love: Kuwait’s Prejudice, Europe’s Aviation Policy, Delta Finds a New Partner
Today’s featured link: Kuwait Airways drops NYC-London route – USA Today For those who don’t know, Kuwait Airways flew New York/JFK to…
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Republic is Having Trouble Flying Its Schedule and Delta Customers are Paying the Price
Something didn’t seem quite right. A Cranky Concierge client was booked to fly during the holidays from Orlando to Raleigh/Durham on Delta…
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United Will Probably Never Have to Pay Out On Its New Corporate Operational Performance Guarantee, but We Should Still Be Happy It Exists
First Delta announced it would pay corporate accounts if it ran a poor operation. That seemed reasonable since Delta has been running…
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The Only Thing Shocking About Delta Ending Its Interline Agreement With Emirates is That It Took This Long
It happened so quietly that very few people seemed to notice, but over the holiday weekend, Delta ended its interline agreement with…
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3 Links I Love: The Reason Air Asia Crashed, Delta Defends New York Slots, CEO of the Year
Today’s featured link: Circuit-board solder crack cited in Indonesia AirAsia crash probe – ATW They say it’s never just one thing that…