Airlines
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Topic of the Week: Fuel Hedging
People love to claim that Southwest’s fuel hedging strategy was brilliant last decade for keeping costs low. Others say it was terrible…
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Malev Shows Why Countries Don’t Need Flag Carriers
While last year saw very little in the way of big airlines failing, this year is already off to a quick start…
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American’s New Business Plan Looks a Lot Like the Old One But With a Lot More Outsourcing
February 1 was a big day at American. It was the day that the airline went over its (not really) new and…
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Cranky on the Web (January 30 – February 3)
Why Spirit Airlines Is Right – Conde Nast Daily Traveler Admittedly, this post was meant to stir the pot up a little.…
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Topic of the Week: Southwest’s Bigger Airplanes Start Flying Soon
Yesterday, Southwest loaded the new 737-800 aircraft into its schedules. Starting on April 11, you can start flying the 175-seat birds from…
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American Leaks More Details on Its New 777 Interiors
When American announced it would roll out a slew of new features on its new 777-300ER aircraft in December, I was left…
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Frontier Charts Its Course as an Ultra Low Cost Carrier
It’s been entirely clear for a few months that Republic wants to spin Frontier off into a standalone airline, but the question…
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Topic of the Week: Alaska Pulls Prayer Cards
The topic has been raised here recently a couple of times. After decades of including prayer cards with meal trays, Alaska has…
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Why Delta is Interested in Buying American
When the news broke that Delta was sniffing around the possibility of making a bid for American while it sits in bankruptcy,…
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Southwest Decides Which AirTran Cities Make the Cut as It Adds Seats
While I was off, Southwest made a couple of interesting moves worth talking about. By far the most interesting to me was…
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New and Proposed Regulations Will Hurt Small Communities (Guest Post)
I’m still out on leave, but I’ll be back soon. Enjoy this post about small communities . . . — Over 70%…
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The Emirates 777 and A380 Head to Head (Trip Report) (Guest Post)
I decided to hold the last Emirates post from Nate until I was on paternity leave. You can see his report on…