Airlines
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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…
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American, Caifornia Pacific, Delta, Family Airlines, Frontier, People Express, Southwest, United, US AirwaysReviewing Your 2014 Predictions
At the end of last year, I put a topic up for you all to make your predictions for the airline industry…
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A Brief and Confusing History of the Mess That Is South African Airways, An Airline That Wants Etihad’s Help to Survive
If I had a nickel for every time South African Airways needed a turnaround… well, I’d still have less than a dollar,…
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Reviewing 2014 Operational Performance: Delta is the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion
As we get toward the end of the year, I thought it would be fun to dig in to airline operational data…