Airlines
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Win a Southwest Flight Schedule Signed by Herb Kelleher and Colleen Barrett with a Tribute to Timetables
If you’re an airline dork, you love timetables. It’s just the way it’s always been. And with Southwest finally issuing its last…
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SkyWest to Start Flying for AirTran in Milwaukee
You cheeseheads may still be hurting from your second Favre-related beatdown this year, but you can rejoice that you now have yet…
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Midwest Airlines Stops Flying (Its Own Planes)
This may seem like a footnote to some, but just two days ago, Midwest officially stopped flying its own aircraft. That doesn’t…
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If You Want to Try Wifi Onboard, You’ll Have Plenty of Free Chances
It’s no surprise that when you make something completely free, people use it a lot more often than if you make them…
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Cranky on the Web (October 26 – 30)
Continental Joins Star Alliance Tomorrow – BNET Continental is in no-man’s land as they end their SkyTeam participation and prepare for Star…
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Midwest and Frontier Start Swapping Airplanes in the Middle of the Day
We’ve talked about how Republic’s acquisition of Frontier and Midwest has given the carrier tremendous flexibility in moving its airplanes around between…
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United Retires The 737 (Trip Report)
Yesterday was something of a flashback for me. When United offered just a couple days ago to give me a seat on…
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Lufthansa Gets a Gold Star For Going Above and Beyond
I’m going to be taking United’s last 737 flight today from LAX to San Francisco and then I’m turning right back around,…
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How Did Those Northwest Pilots Miss the Airport?
It has been plastered all over the news, but I wanted to wait a little until we had more information on what…
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Cranky on the Web (October 19-23)
United Learns That Some People Don’t Want Free Upgrades – BNET United has now made upgrades free for all elites, but that…
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Southwest Boosts Denver and St Louis
I know I just wrote about Southwest yesterday, but the news keeps coming. This time, it’s not a new city but rather,…
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Southwest Announces Panama City (Florida, not Panama)
There is a lot of route news for Florida fans this week, but the biggest of all is that Southwest has announced…