Airlines
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3 Links I Love: 40 Years After the Crash, Norwegian Cuts, Another 747 Retirement
This week’s featured link:PSA crash at 40: A page of San Diego history ‘written in blood’ – The San Diego Union-TribuneIt has been…
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An Emirates/Etihad Merger Makes All Too Much Sense… So It May Not Happen
It’s all rumor at this point, but Bloomberg reported last week that Emirates and Etihad are talking about a merger. This has…
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3 Links I Love: Interviewing United Execs, Ramping Up Against Gulf Carriers, Sun Country Look Back
Tomorrow is Dorkfest! Hope to see some of you at In-N-Out by LAX between 11 and 1p… This week’s featured link:How United’s…
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Fee Regulation: Congress Should Give Up and Airlines Should Shut Up
Fall must nearly be here. The air is crisp, leaves are changing colors, and Congress is trying to regulate airline fees. It’s…
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An Update on Southwest’s Hawai’i Plans
If you thought I was done with the Boyd Conference, you’re wrong. I’m just slow. While I was there, I had the…
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A Missed MAX Opportunity on Southwest (Trip Report)
It was time for the annual Boyd conference once again, but this time the event moved further east to Denver. One thing…
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Next Airline Fee Opportunity: Selling Tickets on Other Airlines
CNBC published an article last week asking “Is there anything left to charge passengers for?” When I spoke with the author for…
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This week’s featured link:Original Disruptor Southwest Airlines Survives on Ruthless Business Savvy – SkiftHere’s a nice, non-fluffy article about Southwest, where it…
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Spirit’s Current and Future CEOs On the Airline’s Continued Operational Improvement (Across the Aisle)
Now I’m back with the second part of my discussion with current Spirit CEO Bob Fornaro and his successor Ted Christie. In…
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3 Links I Love: Interviewing Scott Kirby, The First Airport Hotel, Wake Up Airplane
This week’s featured link: United Airlines President on Turning Skeptics Into Believers – Skift As you know, I love interviews. Here’s one…
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It May Be a Mistake For United to Grow Dulles
I’m not done with Scott Kirby just yet. In the same media gathering where I asked about yesterday’s topic, scope relief, someone…
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United Has a Shot at The Regional Flexibility It Craves
At the International Aviation Forecast Summit last week, United President Scott Kirby was unsurprisingly in high demand. After his presentation, he took…