Airlines
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Topic of the Week: Alaska Wants to Give American Its Mexico City Authority
Here’s an interesting little tidbit that I came across on airliners.net this week. Alaska currently flies LAX-Mexico City once a day. It…
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A Trip on Virgin America I Wish I Didn’t Have to Take (Trip Report)
I realize I’ve done a lot of trip reports lately, but that’s because I’ve had some unplanned travel. This trip was the…
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A Missed Opportunity: How American Should Have Responded to This Unhappy Traveler (Ask Cranky)
This is a different kind of Ask Cranky. What started as a question about why American/US Airways keeps fares so high in…
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Delta Earns a Cranky Jackass Award for Requiring Several Week Advance Purchase to Book Low Level Domestic Awards and Not Telling Anyone
You may have seen elsewhere that Delta has decided to stop publishing all award charts. That’s bad, because it makes it easier…
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Topic of the Week: Do Bigger Airplanes Matter?
Delta announced it’s bringing its 717s back to the west coast. The LA – San Francisco shuttle will see half the flights…
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Strange Bedfellows: Korean to Codeshare with American
Airlines announce codesharing relationships all the time, and I usually don’t give them a second look. But when an announcement came through…
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The Best Kind of Delay (Trip Report)
A couple months ago, I was emailing with some friends and we jokingly talked about doing a guys’ weekend in Cabo. We…
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United Walks Away From Dallas Love Field Airport, Makes Southwest Happy and Delta Angry
To say things took a strange turn at Dallas Love Field Airport on Friday is quite the understatement. After doing everything it…
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British Airways Realigns Its Program to Make Big Spenders With Large Point Balances Happier (And the Rest, Not So Happy)
On Monday, British Airways reached out to me seeing if I’d like to get a briefing on something big coming up. I…
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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…