Airlines
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Premium Economy-ish on American’s 787 (Trip Report)
All of a sudden, I’m spending a lot of times on airplanes. This time, I was off to the Metroplex for our…
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JetBlue Gets Hostile With Spirit, Appeals to Shareholders to Fight
We always knew this was a possibility. Shortly after Spirit set a shareholder vote on June 10 to approve the Frontier merger,…
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Avianca Adds Breadth to Its Recent Move for Depth with Gol Deal
As interesting as the US airline market is these days, it’s hard to beat what’s going on in South America. There seems…
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3 Links I Love: Farewell Allegiant, Gliding in Hawai’i, the Atlas Crash, Throwing Seats Overboard
This Week’s Featured Link Maury Gallagher’s Letter to Shareholders – AllegiantI always look forward to Maury’s letter to shareholders, and it’s sad…
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Southwest Spends $2 Billion To Play Catch-Up on Product
Southwest has finally decided it’s time to invest in its onboard product again. Yesterday, the airline announced it would spend more than…
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Counterpoint: Spirit Torches JetBlue Offer
Last week, I expressed my confusion at Spirit rejecting JetBlue’s offer, which seemed to be a clearly better outcome for shareholders than…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – What is the Point of a Travel Agent?
Cranky Talk – What is the Point of a Travel Agent? We told you we were going to get to your listener-suggested…
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3 Links I Love: Ops are Hard, Porg Party, Viva Avianca, LAX Tower
This Week’s Featured Link Travel chaos returns as Alaska Airlines blames … the calendar? – Seattle TimesAnother month, another mess. Will it…
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Flying The Oakland California Corridor Challenge: SNA-OAK-SNA on JSX and Spirit (Trip Report)
And now, it’s time for the final installment of the Oakland California Corridor Challenge. By the time the final day rolled around,…
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Spirit’s Questionable Move to Shun JetBlue for Frontier
I’ve said it here before; I do not get this JetBlue/Spirit merger plan. That, however, is completely irrelevant when it comes to…
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3 Links I Love: Paying to Board, Starlink Lives, Pan Am Tempelhof
This Week’s Featured Link Delta, facing a union drive, says it will start paying flight attendants during boarding – CNBCIt’s a brilliant…
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Flying The Oakland California Corridor Challenge: ONT-OAK-BUR-OAK-LGB-OAK-SNA (Trip Report)
Are you tired yet? Because I’m tired, and I had only done 4 flights on this adventure on the first day. Day…