Airlines
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Condor Quickly Remakes Its Summer Network
Welcome back from the holidays. It’s that awful first day when everyone is back working and nobody wants to be. So, let’s…
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Alaska Optimizes Flying by Retiming A321s and Hubbing Portland
Alaska was busy working on integrating its Hawaiian fleet this past weekend. I should be mad that they dumped all these changes…
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Air Canada Rouge Grows Again, Swaps Its Fleet
Air Canada held its investor day this week, and it had a 162-slide presentation going through all of its plans. While the…
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Only Russia is Holding India Back
When I looked at the Chinese market, one of the comments asked me to do a similar look at India. I’m happy…
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Alaska and Hawaiian Start to Move Metal Around
We’ve seen bits and pieces of Alaska’s plans for its integration with Hawaiian, but this weekend the airline loaded its first major…
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JetBlue Turns Europe from Business to Leisure in Two Short Years
I know, you were probably expecting me to talk about JetBlue finally confirming to the Wall Street Journal it will install a…
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Alaska Goes Global With New Asia Flying, Hear From CEO Ben Minicucci About This and So Much More
Today’s post is coming a bit earlier than normal, and that’s because Alaska has just announced a whole lot of news in…
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Frontier Woos The High-Dollar Traveler with First Class, Upgrades
Frontier continues to make sweeping changes to its business model as it searches for profitability, and now, it’s going upscale. The airline…
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A Retro United Ride Back Home From Chicago (Trip Report)
When we last left off, I had enjoyed my retro Continental experience for my trip to Chicago where I spoke at United’s…
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Lufthansa and ITA Finally Come Together
Though it’s true that the transaction hasn’t officially closed just yet — and may not until the new year — the acquisition…
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A Retro Continental Ride to Chicago (Trip Report)
United asked me to come speak at its commercial leadership team event in Chicago earlier this month. While Iʻm normally skeptical about…
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Alaska and Hawaiian Make Their First Network Moves to Boost Flows
The Alaska/Hawaiian merger has been a done deal for over a month, but it’s all been quiet so far. That is now…