Airlines
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Cranky on the Web: United On Time, Delta’s Bag Tracking
United makes good on pledge to improve on-time performance – Travel Weekly United’s operation has certainly improved, but I cautioned that some…
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3 Links I Love: Air New Zealand Becomes Less Unique, American’s Bad Baggage Rules, Airport Restaurants
This week’s featured link: Air New Zealand to discontinue premium economy Spaceseat – Business Traveller This is a sad day. Air New…
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British Airways Tests the Lower Bounds of a Full Service Carrier
Ever since full service carriers began to cut what’s included in the base fare, people have wondered just what the breaking point…
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Southwest Has Redesigned The Interiors of Its New 737s, Let’s Take a Look Inside
In my trip report last week, I mentioned that Southwest had brought me up to Seattle so I could go crawl around…
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Delta Adds a Door to Business Class, Calls It a Suite
Flat beds in business class? That’s so 2016. Delta has decided to kick off the 2017 season with the newest, coolest trend…
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My First Southwest 737-800 Ride and LAX Is Getting Better (Trip Report)
If you thought this was my trip report for my 9 Airports, 1 Day adventure, then I’m sorry to disappoint. See, as…
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Should United De-Hub Los Angeles? It Already Has.
There has been a consistent drumbeat regarding United for years in the analyst community: it has too many hubs and needs to…
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3 Links I Love: Delta’s Tech Mess, Phil Bakes Dies
This week’s featured link: Chief Operating Officer gives Delta operations update – Delta News Hub And here’s what Delta said happened in…
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Delta Begins to Further Dismantle Its Tokyo/Narita Hub
Yesterday Delta posted a new item on its News Hub entitled “Q&A with APAC SVP: Delta remains committed to Asia despite Haneda…
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9 Airports, 1 Day: How to Follow Along Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the big day. Assuming everything runs on time, I’ll take 8 Southwest flights touching 9 airports, all within the State…
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3 Links I Love: Why Southwest Says Its IT Failed, Calls for Southwest CEO’s Head, Talking Alaska-Virgin America
This week’s featured link: Southwest CEO: Router failure that grounded flights equated to ‘once-in-a-thousand-year flood’ – Dallas Morning News Something tells me…
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Allegiant’s Transformation Leads to a New Aircraft Order
I’ve always talked about Allegiant as an airline that loves buying cheap, older aircraft, so was I surprised when the airline announced…