Airlines
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Frontier Heads to Memphis, Waits for “Northwest Welcome”
These guys at Frontier are just gluttons for punishment. Yesterday, the airline asked Memphis to “be their Valentine” by announcing flights to…
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JetBlue to Spend Summer in Nantucket with Cape Air
I must admit that JetBlue is doing some fairly uncharacteristic things lately, and that’s a good thing. It appears that the airline…
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Airplane Porn: Alaska Goes Retro
It’s a good week for airplane porn. Alaska has finally released this computer-generated picture of its new 75th anniversary retro livery. That…
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Airplane Porn from Airplane Airlines
Yeah, that’s a confusing title until you remember that “Airplane Airlines” is what Mokulele Airlines translates to in English. These are the…
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Continental’s Mexican Sneak Attack
Today Continental announced new flights between its Houston home and Loreto, in Baja California. This isn’t necessarily news in itself, but many…
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US Airways Goes for the Long Shot
It looks like US Airways has decided to throw in a bid for next year’s flights to China and I’m not really…
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Today’s Special: Southwest Surprise
Trying to predict Southwest’s future destinations is a time-honored tradition practiced by just about everyone in this industry. Most recently, Denver and…
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Who the F*** Is, er, Was Western?
They aren’t kidding when they say what goes up must come down. I was working on a post about the new Western…
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Random Bits of Info – Happy Bob Marley Day
Lots of little things today compelled me to put out yet another edition of random bits of info. And yes, in case…
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Virgin America’s Cool Inflight Entertainment
If Virgin America does ever get off the ground, the inflight entertainment system will definitely be pretty cool. I had heard the…
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LA’s Not-So-Major Breakthrough
If you keep tabs on press releases, you’ve probably seen the bombardment from the LA World Airports (LAWA) about a “major breakthrough…
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Hot Alliance Action
Today was a big day for new additions to global alliances. To be fair, these are just the announcements of additions but…