Airlines
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Southwest Says Mechanical Issues Are Beyond Its Control, But It’s Not as Bad as You Might Think
Many of you have already heard that in its contract of carriage, Southwest has now decided that mechanical issues are outside the…
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PETA Offers Hawaiian Publicity if They Help Stop Fishing, I Give Publicity to Encourage It
Those wacky People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) people are up to their usual tricks, and now they’re dragging airlines…
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Awesome Drama Over easyJet’s Unreliable Operation
If you’re outside of Europe, you likely haven’t been paying close attention to the awesome drama unfolding over easyJet. The airline’s operations…
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Cranky on the Web (July 19-23)
Airport Effort to Charge More During Peak Times Could Hurt Passengers – BNET Airports are one step closer to being able to…
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Good News, Bad News for British Airways as Antitrust Immunity Approved and Flight Attendants Reject Offer
The management team at British Airways must be doing their best impression of a manic depressive this week as they swing from…
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Southwest Restricts Unused Tickets, I’d Rather See a Change Fee
It looks like the good folks at Southwest have slipped in a little change to your ability to use ticketless travel funds.…
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Jetting to Smurf (Trip Report)
I love trips like this. Just as our cold June and early July gave way to sizzling 90 degree heat, it was…
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Allegiant, American, BNET, British Airways, Fares, Government Regulation, Iberia, JetBlue, Mergers/Finance, US Airways
Cranky on the Web (July 12-16)
Strong June Traffic Means It’s Time For Airlines to Raise Airfares — Cautiously – BNET Continued strong traffic numbers mean airfares are…
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Checking in on Alitalia, Because It’s Been Too Long
I never thought things could get any worse for Alitalia, but they have. No, no. It’s not that they’re performing worse. It’s…
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Cranky on the Web (July 6-9)
keep track of your miles in style – AntiBride.com The AntiBride liked my previous post about AwardWallet, so I tweaked it and…
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Norwegian Wants to Go Intercontinental, Prove Hubert Horan Wrong
My post on Hubert Horan’s anti-merger stance generated a ton of discussion here, and that was great. While some agreed, others didn’t.…
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British Airways 747 Near-Accident in South Africa Combined Good Piloting and Luck
The details of the British Airways 747 near-accident in South Africa are out, and man, was that scary for the pilots. They…