Airlines
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Cranky on the Web (May 5 – 9)
Spirit Is Tired of Travelers Not Knowing How Their Airline Works – Conde Nast Daily Traveler Spirit is rolling out a marketing…
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Topic of the Week: Hubs Keep Getting Bigger
This last week, we saw Qantas announce that it was upgauging its Sydney-Dallas/Ft Worth flight to an A380. That means more feed…
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Azul to Fly to the US, Showing What JetBlue May Have Been if Neeleman Had Stuck Around
If you’ve ever wondered what JetBlue might have looked like had David Neeleman not been forced out in 2008, you can just…
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Frontier’s New Pricing Structure Looks a Lot Like Spirit’s, But There Are Differences
We’ve been talking about Frontier’s transformation into an ultra low cost carrier (ULCC) for a long time here, but now that the…
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Topic of the Week: JetBlue Cleans House
After a rough winter operationally followed by the pilots voting to unionize, JetBlue is making a bunch of management changes. First, these…
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The Evolution of Premium Economy (and What the Heck Is It Anyway?)
The term “premium economy” is a fairly nebulous one. It can mean anything from just a little extra legroom to an entirely…
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Flying with Kids Sucks (Trip Report)
This should have been an awesome trip. Thanks to nonstop flight times that don’t work for us (redeye), we nearly always have…
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Cranky on the Web (April 21 – 25)
How to Beat Spirit at its Own Game and Minimize Airline Fees – Conde Nast Daily Traveler Spirit has a great business…
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Topic of the Week: First Quarter Earnings Show a Struggling United, JetBlue
For quarter earnings are out for the big guys, and the results are pretty easily divided into winners and losers. Losers United…
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Delta Goes Fully Flat… in Business Class… on Widebodies… on Overseas Flights
Last June, when United announced it had installed flat beds on all of its long haul flights, I published a little guide…
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Emirates Tries to Grow Beyond Its Home Market, Others Freak Out
Emirates is a big airline, and it’s only going to keep getting bigger. But while Dubai is a large and growing hub,…
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Topic of the Week: The US Airways Porno Plane Incident
By now, everyone has heard about the, hilarious (some might say unfortunate) photo that US Airways tweeted out earlier this week. If…