Airlines
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A Look at the Other Ocean: United Over the Atlantic
I wrote yesterday about how United had some real struggles filling seats in its Pacific network around the holiday season. But the…
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United Struggles to Fill All Those Seats Down Under
United made a huge push into the Pacific this winter, and the numbers are somewhat staggering. With so many seats flooding the…
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Provo is American’s Future
American has decided to add a new dot to its route map. The winner is… Provo, Utah. This might sound like it’s…
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A Tale of Two Cities: Expanding on Last Week’s The Air Show Podcast
Last week on The Air Show podcast, Jon Ostrower, Brian Sumers, and I dove head first into the two northern corners of…
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American’s Revenue Performance Sinks
Cirium recently loaded the Department of Transportation’s DB1B data for Q4 2023, and I eagerly dove in to look for trends. What…
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Spirit Airlines Halts Growth Plans and Things Could Get Uglier
If you happen to be around the Fort Lauderdale airport and hear a grinding sound, don’t worry. It’s not an airplane’s mechanical…
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United Postpones Start of Faro, Cebu Due to FAA Restrictions
Rumors had been swirling, but on March 22, United’s VP of Corporate Safety Sasha Johnson put out an internal memo explaining that…
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Southwest Inches Closer to Flying Redeyes
This is a post that probably could have been written a decade ago. After all, the idea that Southwest would eventually start…
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A Spring Training Day Trip on Southwest (Trip Report)
It was time for my annual baseball spring training trip with friends and former colleagues. I missed it last year, so I…
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Lufthansa Group’s Acquisition of ITA Hits a Snag
It’s been far too long since I’ve written about the worst airline ever, but now seemed like the right time to jump…
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Breeze Shows the Value of NDC with New Priceline Deal
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the implementation of New Distribution Capability (NDC) by the airlines and global distribution systems…
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JetBlue’s Long-Desired West Coast Focus City Dream Dies in June
The way JetBlue tells it, Los Angeles remains an important focus city and a crew base, but this week’s big cuts in…