Airlines
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Lufthansa Group Slowly Chips Away at European Boundaries With Brussels Airlines Changes
Airline consolidation in Europe has gone very differently from how it’s gone here in the US. Unlike the true mergers we have…
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United Should Have Thought Through Paid Basic Economy Seat Assignments Before Launching
I continue to beat my head against the wall as I watch the legacy carriers find new ways to screw up implementing…
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The State of Qatar Promises Reforms to Its Airline Because It Needs a Friend
Qatar (the country) has been in a sticky situation for some time now. With many of its Arab neighbors accusing the country…
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Washington’s Paine Field Begins Commercial Service This Fall and It’s Already Out of Room
There’s nothing quite like building a brand-spanking-new terminal only to find out that it’s completely full before it even opens. This sounds…
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A Conversation With Myself About United’s Domestic Growth Plan
United’s third quarter earnings call did not go over well with Wall Street, and last week’s fourth quarter call? Well that didn’t…
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Delta Finally Brings Back the Part of an Interline Agreement with American That Matters Most
It has been more than two years since Delta effectively killed its interline agreement with American. Now, after several painful operational messes,…
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Questioning the Volaris-Frontier Codeshare
I really don’t like codeshares, but I can understand the rationale for putting them together. It’s all about increasing traffic by putting…
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United Improves While JetBlue, Alaska, and Southwest Don’t in 2017 On-Time Derby
It’s time for some fun with numbers. The year is over, and my technical issue with masFlight was fixed. That means I…
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Icelandair Tries New Market Types to Protect Its Model in a MAX/neo World
On a cold winter back in 1999, my college friends and I decided to spend our last spring break in the exact…
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3 Links I Love: Why JFK is Terrible (Reason #3,194), Alaska’s Winter of Discontent, Americans Flee to Tijuana
This week’s featured link: Why Did New York’s JFK Airport Struggle to Cope With Its Flight Backlog After the Bomb Cyclone? –…
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The Trend Toward Pre-Reclining Seats in Coach is a Good Thing
This week it came out that British Airways was doing away with seats that recline on new short-haul aircraft and will instead…
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With an Assist From JetBlue, Hawaiian Chooses Long Beach As Its First New Airport to Serve with the A321neo
Hawaiian Airlines has long had a size issue. Ever since the DC-8s were retired back in the 1990s, the airline has only…