Airlines
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3 Links I Love: Airline Dorks, Santa Barbara Struggles, JetBlue Marketing Win
This week’s featured link: Eyes Aloft – The Sublime Obsession of Plane Spotting – VQR This is good long look at the…
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Heathrow’s New Runway is Sort Of, Kind Of Approved
If you think airport projects move slowly here in the US, just take a look at the UK. This week the semi-go-ahead…
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Thanks to Delta, More Than Two Dozen Airlines Are Switching Terminals at LAX, Here’s Where They’re Going
Update 3/27: The official plan is in place, and there were a couple of minor tweaks from my original map. I’ve updated…
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3 Links I Love: An Unsolved Eastern Crash, American’s Business Class Saga, Long Beach Customs
This week’s featured link: What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980? – Outside Here’s a good, long read about the crash of…
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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…