Airlines
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JetBlue’s Recent Network Changes Show Promise
Once the JetBlue and Spirit merger died, the two airlines took different paths. Spirit has been pretty steady, not releasing many details…
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Even on a Short Flight, Delta Just Feels a Little Different (Trip Report)
There are certain events that really make you step back and realize just how quickly time passes. My recent 20th grad school…
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Putting American’s Network Superiority Claims to the Test
At American’s Investor Day two months ago, it started to create a justification for its focus on smaller cities using “network superiority”…
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Spirit Teases But Doesn’t Reveal Its Plan to Fix the Airline
In the airline industry, cash is king. It’s expensive to operate an airline but as long as you have cash, you can…
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Frontier’s Evolving Network in Maps
Frontier has been telling us that it needed to remake its operation, delving even further into the out-and-back model of basing crews…
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Podcasts a Plenty: New DOT Rules and A Broad Look at American’s Sales and Distribution Plans
It’s time for a two-fer! First up, we have a new Cranky Talk episode for the first time in awhile. Dave was…
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Southwest is in a Funk, But It Has a Plan
Southwest did not have a good first quarter, and that’s putting it mildly. The airline that used to crow like clockwork every…
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American Flinches as Its Sales and Distribution Strategy Runs Into Trouble
Just over a week ago, American Airlines was on the cusp of rolling out its new “preferred agency” program that would yank…
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JetBlue Runs Into Latin America Troubles
The first quarter was a terrible one for JetBlue. On the one hand, it looks like the airline was using this as…
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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…