Airlines
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Air Asia Decides to Build Its Own Airport in Kuala Lumpur
Let’s say you’re running Air Asia, the premier low-cost carrier in Southeast Asia, and you’ve got a problem. You want to keep…
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Meet the New Alitalia, Same as the Old Alitalia
Just remember, today is your last chance to vote in the 2008 Weblog Awards. You can vote once per day, so even…
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This Week on BNET (Jan 5 – 9)
Frontier’s November Results Not as Positive as They May Seem Frontier issued its monthly operating statement for November over the holidays. The…
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Airline “Pay Per Minute” Plan Is a Bad One
Anyone heard of Airtime Airlines out of South Africa? If not, you’re about to hear about it as every blogger that covers…
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Followup on United’s 777 Reconfiguration
Yesterday’s post on United’s upcoming 777 reconfiguration generated a bunch of emails and comments. After sifting through everything, it appears that things…
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United 777 Premium Reconfiguration Requiring Changes in Coach?
Ever wonder why United is (finally) working hard to upgrade the 767 and 747 aircraft with the new premium cabin seats, but…
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Lufthansa’s Growing Web of Airline Ownership
It’s a new year, and that means Lufthansa will probably acquire another 15 airlines before the year is out. If I were…
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Airlines We Lost in 2008
It’s time once again for the third annual edition of “Airlines We Lost.” This was a pretty active year, as you can…
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Alitalia Ends the Year By Sucking as Usual
I couldn’t let this year finish up without squeezing in one more post on Alitalia. It’s just too much fun. The airline…
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Qantas and United Finally Getting Competition to Australia
For the last few years, Qantas and United have been the only two airlines to get passengers nonstop from the mainland US…
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This Week on BNET (Dec 22 – 26)
Secretary of Transportation Nominee Ray LaHood on Aviation Obama has picked former Congressman Ray LaHood (R-IL) as his Secretary of Transportation. Will…
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Delta’s Terminal Consolidation Plans Begin to Take Shape
Details of Delta’s plans to combine facilities with Northwest are starting to leak out, and I’m very happy to see that the…