Airlines
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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…
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A Primer On the Complex World of Airline Ticket Changes
If you want to change an airline ticket, you’re probably looking for a quick and simple answer as to how much it’ll…
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New York LaGuardia’s Makeover Looks Nice But It Fails to Fix Some of the More Severe Issues
LaGuardia sucks, and we all know it. But since it’s the most convenient commercial airport to Manhattan, it’s an important place. Instead…
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The Unrealistic and Unhelpful Expectations of Airline Passenger Advocates
Last Tuesday morning, I was busy trying to corral the kids when I heard the word “airline” coming from the Today Show…
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My Last Trip on US Airways (Trip Report)
For my daughter’s second birthday, we decided to take the whole family out to see my in-laws in North Carolina. Their place…
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Does an Airline Need a Toll-Free Phone Number?
Frontier is doing away with its toll-free number as part of its transition to being an ultra low cost carrier (ULCC), and…