Airlines
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American Tests Markets in Basic Economy Rollout While United Focuses on Fare Levels
A funny thing happened on Tuesday when both American and United officially filed their first Basic Economy fares in the market. (If…
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Spirit is Fulfilling Its Promise to Run a Better Operation
If you’ve flown Spirit lately, you may have noticed something surprising: the airline is running a better operation than it has in…
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3 Links I Love: Another Defection From American to United, Frontier Trying to Fix Things, United’s New 777-300ER
This week’s featured link: Yet Another American Airlines Executive Leaves for United – Airways Word starting leaking out quickly on Wednesday. Andrew…
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Southwest’s Schedule Will Start Varying More Each Day of the Week
If you call in to Southwest’s reservations line today, you’ll get a message telling you that if you’re traveling before May 9,…
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The Asian ULCC Invasion of the US Begins
There have been many attempts at low cost carrier flying over the Atlantic over the decades, but the Pacific has never seen…
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3 Links I Love: How Yesterday’s Trump Meeting Went, Island Air the Accordion, Eastern Crash Remains a Mystery
This week’s featured link: Subject: Pool report #1 airline meeting – Public Pool Wondering what happened in the Trump/Airline CEO meeting yesterday?…
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Plenty of Inflight Entertainment Heading to Dallas (Trip Report)
Last week was the beginning of American’s Annual Leadership Conference (ALC). This is a great event where American brings in thousands of…
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The One Thing That Really Bothers Me About Basic Economy
With the imminent launch of Basic Economy on both United and American, we are on the cusp of a massive change that…
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3 Links I Love: Delta Grows an Old Hub, Bring Your Own Pilots, Long Beach Misinformation
Expanding service to most popular nonstop destinations from Cincinnati – Delta News Hub Are you a mid-market former hub airport desperate to…
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Lufthansa and Etihad Inch Toward Closer Ties
In a TV-worthy press conference of a scale not seen since… well, since Trump’s reality show Supreme Court nominee reveal the evening…
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I’m Skeptical That United is Really Planning a Huge Growth Push at LAX
Bloomberg ran the headline and the news spread like wildfire. “United Airlines Said to Plan Los Angeles Push in Comeback Effort.” Could…
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American Thinks In-Seat Screens Aren’t Needed on Domestic Flights; I Flip Flop on the Issue
American is getting closer to taking delivery of its first 737 MAX (4 will be coming in the second half of this…