Airlines
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Virgin America Announces Plan to Rebrand as Alitalia America
This one certainly came out of left field, but I think it’s a great move. Virgin America announced today that it has…
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Cranky on the Web (March 25 – 29)
Southwest Airlines: We’re Not Really About Cheap Flights Anymore – Time I spoke with Brad Tuttle at Time as a follow-up to…
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Topic of the Week: Lufthansa Thinking About Long Haul, Low Cost Carrier
It looks like Lufthansa is batting around the idea of starting up a long haul low cost carrier. *sigh* This has never…
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The View is Getting Better at JFK’s T4 – Behind the Scenes of Delta’s Expansion (Guest Post)
Anyone flown through Terminal 3 at JFK on Delta lately? Fortunately, that miserable experience is soon coming to an end with the…
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Can Wifi Really Be a Differentiator for JetBlue?
When JetBlue first launched, it used inflight entertainment as one of the greatest initial product differentiators of all time, and now it’s…
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And Now For a Really Stupid Lawsuit
I received a request from Janet Cho at the Cleveland Plain Dealer to comment on a story last week about a man…
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Cranky on the Web (March 18 – 22)
No More Lost Bags? US Airways Now Lets You Track Luggage in Real Time – Conde Nast Daily Traveler US Airways has…
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Topic of the Week: JetBlue Goes Premium
In annoyingly terse brief this week, JetBlue announced that it would introduce a “premium transcon product.” I call it annoying because they…
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Southwest’s Ironic and Appropriate New Ad Campaign
Has everyone seen Southwest’s latest ad campaign? I’ll guess not since the new 60 second spot debuted in the unwatched first round…
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Talking to British Airways About the A380, the AA/US Merger, and More (Across the Aisle)
I had the chance to catch up with Simon Talling-Smith, the Executive VP of the Americas for British Airways, on the day…
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Cranky on the Web (March 11 – 15)
In the Trenches: Prioritizing Tasks, Getting Paid – Intuit Small Business Blog We’ve neglected an important part of the business, and that…
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A Vision of How Some Airlines Want to Sell You Tickets
It’s Distribution Week here on The Cranky Flier. Yesterday I wrote a brief history of how airlines sell tickets. Today it’s time…