Airlines
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Alitalia’s Turnaround Plan Looks Very Familiar
On January 1st of this year, Alitalia officially became a “new” Alitalia with partial ownership by Etihad. Does this mean Alitalia is…
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Topic of the Week: Frontier Lays Off Its Ground Handlers and Reservations Agents
Frontier has announced it will lay off the only remaining ground handlers employed by the airline, those in Denver, and outsource the…
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American’s Remote Terminal at LAX and the Southwest I Love (Trip Report)
I had to do a last minute day trip up to the Bay Area, and I had a ton of options. After…
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Why American’s Pilots are Getting Riled Up About the Affordable Care Act
I can’t say I ever expected to be writing a post about healthcare here on the blog, but sure enough, here we…
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Topic of the Week: Will Delta’s Flight Attendants Join a Union?
Seems like a “labor” kind of week after Monday’s post, but let’s talk about Delta this time. Delta is kind of an…
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It’s Time for American’s Pilots To Decide If They Want More Money or Not
We all know how American’s flight attendant contract negotiations turned out. A slim majority of flight attendants actually decided they preferred a…
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Delta Moves Most Regional Flights to Terminal 4 at JFK Tomorrow
It looks like Delta’s plan for a better JFK is proceeding along quite nicely. Phase 2 of the project opens tomorrow when…
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Cranky on the Web – Reviewing the Year, More on Hidden City Ticketing, Delays on the Tarmac and on Southwest
In the Trenches: Reviewing the Year and Preparing for 2015 – Small Business Center I take a quick look back on 2014…
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Topic of the Week: Is JetBlue Overreacting to Spirit?
On Wednesday, Spirit announced it would fly from Boston to Vegas and seasonally to both Cleveland and Detroit. About 10 seconds later,…
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United Has an Operational Problem in Denver
We’ve seen the same story play out all over the country. Airlines figure they can save some money by outsourcing their airport…
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Apparently Travel With Kids Gets Worse Before It Gets Better (Trip Report)
Words cannot explain how much I was dreading this trip. I’ve had trouble with my son on airplanes before, but with him…
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Airlines We Lost 2014
It’s that time of the year again where we look back and review all of our fallen comrades. This year, the list…