Airlines
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Topic of the Week: American’s Tech Problems
American had a big mess on its hands this week when the link with Sabre went down and it had to stop…
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A Mediocre American Experience to the Land of Guinness (Trip Report)
With my previous Irish experience being a mere hour connecting in Shannon, I was doubly excited to be invited to the CAPA…
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Frontier Brackets Philly With Wilmington Flights
Back in the day, Southwest was known for using a bracketing strategy around big cities. For example, it served Manchester to get…
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Cranky on the Web (April 8 – 12)
How to Avoid an In-Flight Entertainment Incident on United – Perrin Post on Conde Nast Wendy asked me which flights on United…
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Four Hidden Pieces of History at LAX
Thanks to Chris Sloan of Airchive, I recently had the chance to take a couple hour tour around the grounds at Los…
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Cranky on the Web (April 1 – 5)
Doug Parker Decides ‘Small is Beautiful’ – Doesn’t Want AA-US Merger After Livery Concerns – Gadling Another April Fools’ post from me.…
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Topic of the Week: Do You Feel Safe Flying into an Airport Without a Tower?
As the government continues to fail to do anything about the sequester cuts, the time has come to start closing control towers…
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Allegiant Slashes Hawai’i Flying This Fall, and It Shouldn’t be a Surprise
The only thing I’d heard surrounding Allegiant’s Hawai’i flying recently was regarding mechanical problems impacting half the 757 fleet. That caused a…
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Argentina Earns the Cranky Jackass Award for Propping Up Aerolineas Argentinas at the Expense of Real Competition
There have been so many good news stories about aviation in Latin America lately that it seems like everything is going well.…
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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…