Airlines
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UNITE HERE Strikes Back: Tries to Cover Bad Analysis By Insulting Cranky, Earns the Jackass
If you decide to put out bad analysis, as UNITE HERE did last week regarding Lufthansa complaints, and someone calls you on…
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Why I Wouldn’t Be Surprised to See Virgin America Acquire Frontier
This may sound crazy, but hear me out. There were two separate pieces of news last week concerning Virgin America and Frontier…
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When Statistics Attack: Union Report on Lufthansa Complaint “Spike” is Simply Misleading
One thing that’s certain is that you can make statistics say pretty much whatever you want to get your point across. That’s…
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Southwest’s Long DFW Goodbye and International Plans in Baltimore
There were a couple of completely unrelated pieces of news from Southwest that came out last week, but I decided to throw…
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Delta Increases Reliance on Partners, Cuts Transatlantic Flights
Delta’s recent pulldown of Transatlantic flights was fairly breathtaking in its scope, but it also showed just how joint ventures can influence…
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Topic of the Week: United Keeps First Class, At Least on Some Airplanes
It sounds like the new United is keeping First Class, but maybe only on the airplanes that already have it. Bloomberg reports…
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Pilot Error Likely Played Major Role in Air France 447 Accident
When the French found the black boxes from Air France flight 447 nearly two years after the A330 airplane crashed in the…
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Delta and US Airways Propose New York/Washington Slot Swap Again, and This Time It’ll Happen
Delta and US Airways are hoping that the third time’s a charm by putting the long-proposed slot swap in New York and…
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Has US Airways Kept Rochester Fares Low? (Sort of)
In mid-March, you might remember that US Airways decided to lower fares from Rochester to a bunch of cities and said it…
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Someone Forgot to Tell Vision Airlines that Small Hubs Don’t Work
Delta’s Memphis cuts have once again stirred up a lot of talk about the death of the mid-size hub. It’s effectively conventional…
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Cranky on the Web (May 16 – 20)
Fewer hubs mean fewer options for fliers – CNN Out of the Office Memphis joins a long line of mid-sized hubs that…
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United’s “Customer Day One” Doesn’t See Many Changes
I’m not quite sure how this was decided, but yesterday was “Customer Day One” for the combined Continental and United.. That doesn’t…