Airlines
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Wizz Looks to Conquer the World, or At Least Europe
I used to think of Wizz as that Central/Eastern European airline with the goofy name and pink and purple airplanes. That image…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest’s Strategy, Surrender the Dragon, Wizz Goes South
This week’s featured link What’s Southwest’s Network Strategy? – Fly Data GuyA former Southwest network planner talks about how Southwest has moved…
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Quantifying the Incredibly Unlikely Aerosol Transmission of COVID on Airplanes
There’s a good chance you know someone who has told you, “oh yeah, I know someone who got COVID on an airplane.”…
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JetBlue Cuts While Southwest Grows
Greetings from Airlineville. On the surface, it was another quiet week for our fine residents, but underneath, there was more action than…
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3 Links I Love: Airplanes are COVID-Safe, Goodbye Alitalia, WestJet Stays West
This week’s featured link TRANSCOM/AMC Commercial Aircraft Cabin Aerosol Dispersion Tests – US Transportation Command and DARPAYou probably saw news coverage of…
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Southwest Adds Chicago’s O’Hare and Houston’s Intercontinental… But Why?
Southwest used to be an airline that added dots in the Continental US to its route map at a torrid pace, but…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest’s 2021 Plan, Wizz Goes For the Kill, United Jumps on a Bandwagon
This week’s featured link Gary Kelly Outlines Plans to Avoid Layoffs and Furloughs Through 2021 – Southwest MediaI thought this 10 minute…
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JetBlue’s Two Decade Run in Long Beach Ends With a Whimper
At 11:18am on Tuesday, JetBlue 231 pulled into gate 6 at Long Beach Airport after a short flight from Salt Lake City.…
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Considering Delta’s Future Fleet as Retirements Mount
When it comes to future fleet composition, Delta has been busy trying to simplify. It has announced a variety of retirements and…
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Breeze is Back with Another Revised Plan For Flights to Begin in March
A lot has changed in the world since David Neeleman first let it slip that he was working on a new airline.…
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Sign of the Apocalyse: American’s Cheap, Refundable Long-Haul Fares
It was a big enough shock to see airline change fees start melting away, but now there’s something even stranger happening. American…
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Why JSX is Being Kicked Out of Orange County Airport
JSX — the airline formerly known as JetSuiteX — sent out a somewhat odd blast email last week. The airline said it…