Airlines
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I’m Taking a Break, So Here Are Some Things to Keep You Busy
I almost never take a break. Even if I’m traveling somewhere, I usually end up pre-writing posts so that you don’t even…
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How Southwest’s Extra Legroom and Assigned Seating Might Work
Southwest was a news machine last week. After posting a bad quarter with an even worse outlook, it announced redeyes and most…
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Delta Seems to Have Learned Nothing From Southwest’s 2022 Meltdown
On July 19, the world learned the name CrowdStrike. That day, the company had uploaded a corrupted update to its clients’ computers…
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Southwest’s First Redeyes Arrive on Valentine’s Day
It’s been talked about for eons, and now, it is actually happening. Southwest is going to start its first redeyes on February…
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Alaska Continues to Crush It In Summer, But It Has Winter Problems
Alaska announced its Q2 earnings yesterday, and the results were predictably very good. The airline beat estimates and came through with a…
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Route Overlap is a Big Problem for US ULCCs
There is much to be written on what has happened to the ultra low-cost carriers in a post-pandemic world. We will probably…
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Delta and Southwest Underwhelm on a Quick Bay Area Trip (Trip Report)
My wife and I had to do a quick trip up to San Francisco for a Saturday night event. Fares were high,…
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Sun Country Plans More Boxes, Fewer People
Sun Country is tired of carrying you self-loading cargo around for prices that are too low, so now it’s pivoting toward more…
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Avianca’s Owner Abra Group Jumps Across the Atlantic
Avianca was a slow-moving, bloated legacy carrier based in Colombia that had spread its wings around South America but not in a…
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Southwest’s Complicated RM Switch Sinks Revenue At the Worst Possible Time
Just imagine this. You’re running Southwest Airlines, trying hard to fight off Elliott Investment Management’s desire to fire you and your board…
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Elliott’s Preliminary Thoughts on Fixing Southwest Could Devastate the Airline
On The Air Show this week, Brian, Jon, and I dug deeper with a focus on how Southwest got to this point…
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Saying Goodbye to Oakland Baseball (Trip Report)
There are few things better than spending a nice summer day watching major league baseball, but for the people of Oakland, that…