Airlines
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Southwest Gets Friendlier For Small Business, But There’s a Lot More Work to Be Done
Many people think of Southwest as a leisure-focused airline, but that’s never been the case. In fact, even in its earliest days…
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How United CEO Oscar Munoz Plans on Focusing His Efforts This Year
United opened its newest Polaris lounge at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) last week, so I headed on up the road to…
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Why Ben Smith Killed Joon Despite Loving a Similar Idea in His Last Job
You’ve likely heard that Air France has decided to mercifully put an end to its ridiculous Joon experiment. I hated pretty much…
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3 Links I Love: Fixing WestJet, Tip Your Flight Attendant, Aloha 767
‘We’ve just grown too big, too fast:’ CEO Ed Sims taps the brakes at WestJet – Calgary HeraldFor years people have said WestJet…
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Sun Country Grows Every Which Way
In recent history, Sun Country has been an afterthought. It was a small airline that during the best of times was marginally…
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The Most Popular Movies and TV Shows In the Air
I don’t remember this being a thing in the past, but airlines now seem to be releasing details on the most-watched entertainment…
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The Circle is Complete: ExpressJet’s Long Journey Ends Where It Began
It has been a long road for the regional carrier ExpressJet, but the recent announcement that ExpressJet would be acquired by United…
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Herb Kelleher Has Left the Building
I very rarely write obituaries when someone in the industry dies, and for Herb Kelleher, founder and long-time president of Southwest Airlines……
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Airlines We Lost 2018
As we wind toward the end of the year, it is time to take a look back on what we’ve lost in…
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3 Links I Love: Air Italy Throws Money Away, Moxy Hires, OneJet Is DoneJet
This week’s featured link: Air Italy flights to Chicago risk rekindling row with U.S. carriers – ReutersAir Italy has been announcing a…
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There is a Reason United’s Purchase of ExpressJet is So Complicated
The news started rolling in on Tuesday. United would be purchasing regional-operator ExpressJet from its current parent company SkyWest, but this is…
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Delta’s New Boarding Process Makes It Seem Like The Airline Has Nothing Better To Do
Sometimes it just feels like Delta has run out of important things to spend time working on. Last week’s announcement of a…