Airlines
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Cranky on the Web – Will JetBlue Ever Come to Cincinnati?
What’s it going to take to get JetBlue? – Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati apparently really wants JetBlue, but it seems to me that’s…
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Air Canada’s President Goes Across the Aisle to Talk About Adding Seats to Airplanes, the Rise of Rouge, and More
When I was at the Boyd conference in Vegas a couple weeks ago, I had the chance to sit down with several…
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Topic of the Week: Do You Like Delta’s Pay Raise?
Delta announced what, on the surface, looks like big pay raises for non-union employees this week. Wages will rise 14.5 percent. In…
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If You’re Going to Charge for Seat Assignments, Lufthansa, You Better Well Honor Them (Tales from the Field)
Lufthansa is probably the most hated airline in the travel agent world these days for a variety of reasons. It just started…
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American Really Screwed Up When It Sent the Wrong Airplane to Hawai’i
File this one under “how the hell did that happen?” On August 31, American sent an A321 from LA to Honolulu that…
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Delta’s Reason For Killing Its Interline Agreement With American Makes No Sense
American and Delta have announced that they’ll be ending their interline agreement on September 14. I immediately assumed this was Delta’s doing,…
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With Smisek Forced Out, United’s New CEO Oscar Munoz Has a Unique Opportunity
I didn’t expect it to happen like this. Over the last few years, people have called for now-former United President, Chairman, and…
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Republic May Have the Strangest Bankruptcy Filing Ever
Have you ever heard of a company filing for bankruptcy protection so that it can increase its costs? I’m going to guess…
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Topic of the Week: How Important Should Operational Performance Be for Spirit?
At the Boyd conference this week, Spirit gave a long presentation about its efforts to educate people about its unbundled strategy and…
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Across the Aisle From Virgin America’s CEO on His Plan to Force Legacy Carriers to Let Him Use Their Feeder Networks
I was at the International Aviation Forecast Summit (more commonly called the Boyd conference) earlier this week and had the chance to…
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SAS is Returning to Los Angeles, a City with Which it Has Surprisingly Deep Ties
On March 14th of next year, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will begin flying to LAX for the first time in 20 years. While…
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Topic of the Week: American Leaving Tel Aviv
American has announced that it will drop the legacy US Airways flight to Tel Aviv early next year. The reason? The airline…