Frontier
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Cranky on the Web (October 18-22)
More airlines ditch first-class seats as fliers get stingy – USA Today USA Today did a story on the disappearance of First…
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United-Continental Merger Closing Was the Third Most Interesting Story on Friday
By now, you undoubtedly know that the United and Continental merger has officially closed and United Continental Holdings is now the parent…
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Frontier and Other Airlines Stand to Gain From the Southwest/AirTran Deal
I’ve seen countless articles/posts/interviews talking about how the Southwest/AirTran merger is going to be terrible for every other airline out there. The…
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Cranky on the Web (June 1-4)
As the Regional Flight Market Shrinks, Airlines Need New Strategies to Survive – BNET Regionals have had a rough few years, and…
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Frontier, Midwest Confusion (Trip Report)
May has been a really tiring month of travel for me, but the trips have all had good reason. This one was…
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AirTran, BNET, Continental, Frontier, Labor Relations, Mergers/Finance, Mesa Airlines, Southwest, Spirit, United, US Airways
Cranky on the Web (May 17 – 21)
Union-Vote Rule Change: Bad News for Non-Union Delta, JetBlue – BNET The National Mediation Board made some rule changes recently and it…
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Republic CEO Bryan Bedford on Religion and the Business (Across the Aisle)
Today I bring you the third and last installment of my interview with Republic CEO Bryan Bedford. In this piece, we spend…
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Midwestern Swing on JetBlue and Frontier (Trip Report)
This trip served a couple of purposes. First, I was meeting up with some airline friends in Chicago for a get together.…
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Republic CEO Bryan Bedford on Fees, Competition in the Hubs, and More (Across the Aisle)
I’m back with part two of my conversation with Bryan Bedford, CEO of Republic (which owns Frontier, among others). In part one,…
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Republic CEO Bryan Bedford On the Branded Strategy (Across the Aisle)
Last week, I had the chance to sit down with Bryan Bedford, CEO of Republic, in the carrier’s northwest Indianapolis headquarters. (It’s…
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Frontier to Put Internet on Embraer 170 and 190 Aircraft
Ok, so Frontier and Midwest are uniting under the Frontier name, and now they’re trying to standardize the brand and offerings. So…
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Frontier Wins, Midwest Dies, the Cookie Lives
Republic has made its branding decision. Fortunately, Frontier lives and Midwest dies. Midwest was kind of like your great, great uncle who…