Airlines
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Checking in on Hawaiian Airlines with CEO Peter Ingram
Last week, I was supposed to be with some friends hiking around Molokai, but Mother Nature had other plans. The abnormal deluge…
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Getting to the Faroe Islands Just Got Easier (Guest Trip Report)
Disclosure: Icelandair provided the flights and lodging for this trip Where?” “The Faroe Islands.” “Where is that?” “About halfway between Iceland and…
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Frontier Tries to Make It Easier for Travelers to Part With (Less of) Their Money
Frontier made a splash last week by saying is is now “The New Frontier” with “Transparent Pricing, No Change/Cancel Fees, and Enhanced…
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JetBlue’s Recent Network Changes Show Promise
Once the JetBlue and Spirit merger died, the two airlines took different paths. Spirit has been pretty steady, not releasing many details…
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Even on a Short Flight, Delta Just Feels a Little Different (Trip Report)
There are certain events that really make you step back and realize just how quickly time passes. My recent 20th grad school…
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Putting American’s Network Superiority Claims to the Test
At American’s Investor Day two months ago, it started to create a justification for its focus on smaller cities using “network superiority”…
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Spirit Teases But Doesn’t Reveal Its Plan to Fix the Airline
In the airline industry, cash is king. It’s expensive to operate an airline but as long as you have cash, you can…
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Frontier’s Evolving Network in Maps
Frontier has been telling us that it needed to remake its operation, delving even further into the out-and-back model of basing crews…
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Podcasts a Plenty: New DOT Rules and A Broad Look at American’s Sales and Distribution Plans
It’s time for a two-fer! First up, we have a new Cranky Talk episode for the first time in awhile. Dave was…
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Southwest is in a Funk, But It Has a Plan
Southwest did not have a good first quarter, and that’s putting it mildly. The airline that used to crow like clockwork every…
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American Flinches as Its Sales and Distribution Strategy Runs Into Trouble
Just over a week ago, American Airlines was on the cusp of rolling out its new “preferred agency” program that would yank…
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JetBlue Runs Into Latin America Troubles
The first quarter was a terrible one for JetBlue. On the one hand, it looks like the airline was using this as…