Airlines
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A Visit With California Pacific Airlines
Two long years ago I wrote about a proposed startup called California Pacific Airlines. At the time, I said that it was…
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Southwest Rightly Kills A Successful Subsidy on the Florida Panhandle
Something very strange happened last week. St Joe and Southwest agreed to end the subsidy agreement that was put in place to…
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Alaska Offers Self Bag-Tagging After Feds Finally Ease Restrictions
A couple of weeks ago, Alaska Airlines announced it would start aggressively rolling out self bag-tagging for its customers. This might sound…
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Virgin America Posts Terrible First Quarter Loss, Has One Year to Prove Itself
Here we are in July and believe it or not, I haven’t written an article focusing on Virgin America here since last…
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Delta’s New Pilot Contract Kicks Off the Great Regional Feeding Frenzy of 2012
Last week, Delta’s pilots easily approved a new contract with management that will see a lot more insourcing of flying as well…
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Delta Makes a Smart Choice for Wifi Internationally
While wireless internet has become nearly ubiquitous on flights within the US (unless you fly United), international travel hasn’t seen the same…
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Topic of the Week: Which 10 Cities Have Service to Every United Hub?
I was talking to someone from one of these lucky airports recently and he told me that there are 10 cities in…
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The Downside of Fuel Hedging
Anyone seen the price of fuel lately? As I write this, oil is hovering around a mere $80 a barrel. That’s a…
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Southwest’s Looming Labor Fight
Unlike any other large airline in the US, Southwest has had an incredible streak of good labor relations. Despite being highly unionized,…
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Cranky on the Web (June 18 – 22)
Frontier Airlines suspends mileage donations to charity – Examiner.com We talked about this yesterday, but I was asked to comment on it,…
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Topic of the Week: Frontier and Southwest Brawl over Wisconsin Fliers
First, Frontier made a deal to allow its frequent fliers to transfer miles to Delta. Then Southwest struck back and said that…
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FastJet Has an Uphill Battle to Prove an African Low Cost Carrier Can Work
When easyJet’s founder started making rumblings about starting FastJet last year, I thought it was crazy. Back then, it was presumed that…