Airlines
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Topic of the Week: Alaska Airlines Increases Its Minimum Check-In Time
Alaska has decided to increase its minimum check-in time from 30 to 40 minutes in most airports. (Some more challenging airports are…
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How the American/US Airways Merger Trial Can Be Avoided
We’re now less than a month away from opening arguments in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust case trying to prevent American…
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Celebrating in Phoenix (Trip Report)
Last weekend it was time for another trip to Phoenix, but this time it was for a festive event – my brother’s…
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JetBlue Now Allows Family Pooling of Frequent Flier Points
If you’re not already a member of JetBlue’s TrueBlue frequent flier program, you might have missed the airline’s announcement that it will…
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Cranky on the Web (October 21 – 25)
Cranky Analysis: Southwest’s Rising Fares Have Benefited Competitors Big and Small – PlaneBusiness Banter – $Subscription Required$ In this month’s PlaneBusiness column,…
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Topic of the Week: Who Should Get Tokyo/Haneda Slots?
American has thrown in the towel on its JFK to Tokyo/Haneda flight and will be handing the slots back. So far, there…
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To Change or Not to Change? (Tales From the Field)
We were faced with quite the dilemma this week at Cranky Concierge when we had a client flying Southwest who was looking…
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Norwegian Escalates its US Invasion
Anyone here flown Norwegian yet? If not, you’re going to have plenty of opportunity. Norwegian has stepped up its efforts to become…
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American’s Asia Strategy Centers on Dallas/Ft Worth
I talked a lot about Delta’s and United’s Asia strategies last week, but I didn’t touch on American’s. That’s kind of funny…
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Delta Turns Away From Tokyo in Favor of Seattle
For many years, Delta and United had very different operational strategies for Asia. United long ago shifted from focusing on its Tokyo…
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Flying the Friendly Skies to Maui (Trip Report)
With my wife’s maternity leave from her job coming to an end, and a couple of unused United MileagePlus tickets sitting around…
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The Latest News in the American and US Airways Merger
It has been over a month since I last wrote about the American/US Airways merger, and I figured it was probably time…