To work, dynamic pricing must be transparent – Travel Weekly
Ok, so technically I wasn’t quoted in this piece, but instead the author used quotes from a post I wrote recently. I enjoyed the column, so I figured I’d link to it here so you’d see it.
Category: JetBlue
One of the biggest questions surrounding JetBlue has been what exactly it was going to do for its West Coast strategy. It was assumed that Virgin America was that strategy, but when Alaska won the acquisition battle, JetBlue was left with its weak-performing Long Beach focus city and a whole … Read the post
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JetSuite Plans Big Expansion With New Investments From Qatar Airways And JetBlue – Forbes
I continue to scratch my head over the announcement that Qatar Airways will put money into JetSuite, and JetBlue will up its investment. I totally get it from JetSuite’s side. It’s trying … Read the post
When I looked at 2017 operational performance earlier this year, I told you I was going to drill down a bit on some of the problem children. My first victim airline is JetBlue. I had ideas about why JetBlue was performing so poorly. These were primarily centered around the airline’s … Read the post
This week’s featured link:
Heritage meets the future. Lufthansa presents a new brand design. – Lufthansa Group Newsroom
The new Lufthansa livery is out and it’s… well, it’s fine. Basically, the tail just changed to a dark blue with the crane logo now in white. That’s it. There are other … Read the post
It’s time for some fun with numbers. The year is over, and my technical issue with masFlight was fixed. That means I was able to cuddle up with my computer over the weekend and start thumbing through operational performance for 2017. I didn’t get quite as far as I would’ve … Read the post
It’s Thanksgiving week, so I’ve decided to lie low and post two trip reports today and tomorrow. No post Thursday, and I’ll be back the following Monday as usual.
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The last time I flew Mint, it did not go well. It’s not like it was JetBlue’s fault — … Read the post
On June 5, 2016, Southwest launched its first flights from Long Beach with 4 daily to Oakland. With a year’s worth of data from the feds now available, I turned to the numbers to see exactly what the impact has been and how it stacks up against other Southern California … Read the post
It’s only been a couple months since I was last in Vegas, but I had some meetings to attend so it was time to return. Though I thought about driving, I thought better of it and bought plane tickets instead. Both flights were fine, though there were a couple things … Read the post
You don’t need me to tell you that New York’s LaGuardia Airport sucks. If you’ve been even remotely near the place, you haven’t had a good experience. While long-term improvement is slowly happening, a band of airlines recently got together to put some short-term measures in place. The funny … Read the post
JetBlue has a West Coast problem. While in general the consensus is that JetBlue needs to find a better way to serve the West, I’m not so sure about that. The best option may be to just focus elsewhere. If things were that simple, however, then this wouldn’t be worth … Read the post
This week’s featured link:
NIKI no longer to merge with TUIfly in a setback for airberlin’s restructuring – CAPA
Alitalia’s eskimo brother airberlin is giving Alitalia a run for its money as worst airline ever. It had already transferred a bunch of airplanes over to subsidiary Niki so it could … Read the post