Airlines
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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…
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Eight Hour Ground Delay in the Hartford Snow Storm (Trip Report) (Guest Post)
Remember that October snowstorm and the meltdown that followed in Hartford? This woman and her husband were stuck in the thick of…
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The Financial Mess That Is Kingfisher (Guest Post)
It’s baby time, and I’m taking a couple weeks off from blogging to get to know the little guy. This is the…
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US Airways Moves Toward Smaller Cities at National After Getting Delta’s Slots
It’s really interesting to watch US Airways as it starts to announce how it’s going to use its newly acquired slots at…
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Cranky on the Web (December 26 – December 30)
What will 2012 bring in air travel? – CNN Out of the Office CNN asked me to do a look at ahead…