Airlines
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Southwest Inches Closer to Flying Redeyes
This is a post that probably could have been written a decade ago. After all, the idea that Southwest would eventually start…
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A Spring Training Day Trip on Southwest (Trip Report)
It was time for my annual baseball spring training trip with friends and former colleagues. I missed it last year, so I…
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Lufthansa Group’s Acquisition of ITA Hits a Snag
It’s been far too long since I’ve written about the worst airline ever, but now seemed like the right time to jump…
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Breeze Shows the Value of NDC with New Priceline Deal
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the implementation of New Distribution Capability (NDC) by the airlines and global distribution systems…
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JetBlue’s Long-Desired West Coast Focus City Dream Dies in June
The way JetBlue tells it, Los Angeles remains an important focus city and a crew base, but this week’s big cuts in…
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Pilot Scope is American’s Secret Weapon, But It Should Tread Carefully
Editor’s Note: The original version of this post included American opportunity based on 965 aircraft in mainline fleet. The scope clause is…
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Frontier Makes a Play for Business Travel
It is not often that you would expect to hear the words “Frontier” and “Business Travel” in the same sentence, but the…
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A Walk Through Hawaiian’s New, Well-Designed 787
It has been a long road for Hawaiian to figure out how to replace (er, augment?) its Airbus A330 fleet with a…
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Avelo’s First Profitable Quarter is a Milestone
It has actually happened. Avelo made money. Well, at least, it made a pre-tax profit in the fourth quarter of 2023. We…
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A Closer Look at American’s Focus on Increasing Network Superiority
I already tackled the commercial strategy laid out in American’s investor presentation from earlier this week, but these charts just keep calling…
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Armed With Tortured Data, American Takes Its Old New York Strategy Systemwide
American Airlines held its first investor day in years yesterday, and while several execs did a good job highlighting many of the…
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Delta Fires Back Over DOT’s Aeromexico Rejection and Allegiant Takes Delta’s Side
When the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced it would end the antitrust immunity (ATI) given to Delta and Aeromexico for their joint…