Airlines
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Why United Won the Right for More China Flights
The long awaited decision about who would win this year’s rights to fly to China came down today. United was awarded the…
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Northwest Says Aloha to the DC-10
DC-10 Retirement – 01-07-07 – 01 – 017 Originally uploaded by NWA Moments. Yesterday morning, Northwest flight 98 arrived in Minneapolis/St Paul…
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JetBlue Heads for San Francisco
San Francisco Airport (SFO) leaked (pdf) the news yesterday that a “major U.S. air carrier” would announce service to the airport today,…
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Adam Air – Still Looking
Remember that Adam Air plane crash in Indonesia last week? Well despite one false report, they unbelievably still haven’t found the plane’s…
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The LCC Round the World Challenge
All this talk about the launch of Air Asia X, the new long haul low cost carrier got me thinking. With the…
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Who the F*** is SkyValue?
In the second installment of my “Who the F*** is . . .” series, we look at SkyValue (Allegiant was the first).…
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Long Haul, Low Cost Air Asia X
It’s time for another fun filled airline makeover, boys and girls! Rumors had been flying all week that Virgin Atlantic, easyJet, and…
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Arizona Republic Interviews Doug Parker
Back on December 29, the Arizona Republic published an interview with Doug Parker. The interview was conducted by one of my favorite…
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Time to Eat Crow – L’Avion Takes Flight
It wasn’t even a month ago that I expressed a complete lack of confidence that L’Avion, the new French all-business class airline,…
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United Mercifully Axes Cruises
I believe congratulations are due to United for finally putting United Cruises out of its misery. Anyone with a Mileage Plus account…
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Worst Airline in the World 2006
I must admit that I’m a big fan of Countdown with Keith Olbermann. So, I’ve decided to take a page from his…
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Airlines We Lost in 2006
As in most years, there were a whole slew of airlines that went under in 2006. There were large ones and small…