Airlines
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Delta’s Transcon Strategy Gives It More Flexibility to Fly Flat Beds From LA to DC
While I was gone, you may have seen that Delta announced it was going to start flying from Los Angeles to Washington/National…
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Southwest Takes a Hit in Orange County As The Battle For California Heats Up
So this voice recognition software in Google Docs isn’t bad, but it has still slowed me down a lot. To help speed…
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What United’s Now-Former Network Chief Says About the New Leadership Team
Talk about an eventful week. The day I posted my interview with Brian Znotins, VP of Network for United last week, he…
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3 Links I Love: Air Berlin Restructures, American’s CIO, So Long Vin
Far-reaching restructuring of airberlin to deliver long-term growth – Air Berlin The long-rumored restructuring is here. Air Berlin, long shredding money, is…
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How Can Norwegian Fly Charters Between the US and Mexico? (Ask Cranky)
Back in July, Norwegian announced that it would start doing charter flying for Apple Vacations and Funjet Vacations this winter. That may…
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United’s Network Planning Chief Tells Me Whether Los Angeles is Still a Hub (Across the Aisle)
Update 9/27 at 412p PT: In a true coincidence, I’m told that Brian is no longer with United as of today. In…
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JetBlue’s Interest in Europe is No Surprise
Take a look at this route map, via Great Circle Mapper (he’s also made this the featured map for today): If you…
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Cranky on the Web: Loyalty and American, Emirates Seat Fee
Loyalty only goes so far as American Airlines, others revamp rewards programs – Dallas Morning News This was a broader look at…
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3 Links I Love: Low Cost Canada, Virgin No Votes, Marketing United
This week’s featured link: Can These New Airlines Bring Canada’s Sky-High Fares Back to Earth? – Bloomberg And the answer is, yes.…
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A New JetBlue Route and Finishing the Companion Pass Run (Trip Report)
For the 2nd year in a row, I attended the Boyd Conference. This year, however, it was up at Lake Tahoe, and…
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Delta Wants to Grow in Boston But This Isn’t Going to Look Like Seattle
With Delta’s recent ramp-up in Boston, there are rumors that the airline wants to do there what it’s already done in Seattle:…
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PSA and Another American Regional Boost Pay to Combat the Expected Pilot Shortage
It looks like the regional airline fight to hire enough pilots continues. Two of American’s wholly-owned regionals, Envoy and PSA, have announced…