Airlines
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Accidents/Incidents, Alaska Airlines, Alliances, American, BNET, Continental, Delays/Cancellations, Delta, Government Regulation, LGA – New York/La Guardia, Schedule Changes, Southwest, Westjet
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…
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US Airways Pilots End ASAP Participation
I wrote about American’s inability to come to agreement with its pilots on continuing participation on the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP)…
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Pan Am 103 Crashed Twenty Years Ago Today
I know I usually don’t post on Sundays, but this is no usual Sunday. It’s December 21, and that means it has…
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This Week on BNET (Dec 15-19)
Forrester Says Leisure Travel Brand Loyalty Disappearing Rapidly Forrester says brand loyalty is disappearing. That hardly means that travel companies should just…
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Trip Report: A Mess of a Trip
I’ve had several people ask me if I had given up on writing trip reports, and the answer is no. I just…
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A Pilot’s View on the Brazilian Gol/ExcelAire Accident (Guest Post)
We got into an off-topic discussion in the comments section of a previous post recently about the latest in the Gol/ExcelAire midair…
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Southwest Links to WestJet, Does Anyone Care?
I know that many of you have been anxiously awaiting the Southwest-WestJet codeshare to get going, and yesterday the airlines took their…
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DOT Now Releasing Tarmac Delay Information
Sorry I’m a little late this morning, but we’re (finally) getting some serious rain here in Southern California and that knocked out…
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AirTran, BKG – Branson, BNET, Delta, Lufthansa, Northwest, Pinnacle, Schedule Changes, Seats, Virgin America
This Week on BNET (Dec 6 – 12)
November Airline Traffic Numbers Traffic numbers for November are in, and man is it ugly. Pinnacle Improves Delta Connection On Time Performance…
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Virgin America Moves Into Renovated LAX Terminal 3
As I mentioned, the reason I had the chance to interview Virgin America CEO David Cush yesterday was because he was in…
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Across the Aisle from Virgin America CEO David Cush
I have to give Virgin America credit. There’s no question that I’ve been very critical of many of the moves the airline…