Airlines
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LEVEL Goes Up, OpenSkies Goes Down
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something poignant about IAG’s decision to shut down its OpenSkies subsidiary and…
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Cranky on the Web: American’s Overblown Pilot Problem, Holiday Travel Deals
American Airlines updates worried travelers after glitch left thousands of holiday flights without pilots – Dallas Morning News (Paywall) When there’s a…
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3 Links I Love: Retirement of a Salesman, Interviews with KLM and Southwest CEOs
This week’s featured link: Leahy reflects on 33 years at Airbus – Leeham News For those who don’t know, one of the…
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WestJet Just Keeps Adding Complexity, And Somehow It Works
In general, complexity is the enemy of any good low-cost airline. Sure, by nature, legacy carriers have complexity in spades, and that’s…
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Delta Swaps International and Domestic Aircraft To Fight the Low Cost Carriers
It was more than a year and a half ago when I wrote this about JetBlue’s first big expansion of its Mint…
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Flat Beds on the American 767-300, Then Coach Home (Trip Report)
As I wrote yesterday, it’s a quiet Thanksgiving week, so I’m posting my recent trip reports to get them out of the…
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JetBlue Mint, Take 2: Now With Food! (Trip Report)
It’s Thanksgiving week, so I’ve decided to lie low and post two trip reports today and tomorrow. No post Thursday, and I’ll…
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3 Links I Love: KLM Not LinkedIn, California Pacific Tries Again, the Delta 747 Goodbye
This week’s featured link: KLM Lets The Customer Decide… – Meanwhile at KLM This is a really interesting read. KLM has one…
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Long Beach and the Unsustainable Southwest Effect
On June 5, 2016, Southwest launched its first flights from Long Beach with 4 daily to Oakland. With a year’s worth of…
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Riding into the Sunset With The Last United 747
Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that United retired its 747s last week with one remarkable last flight. I was…
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With the New Terminal Approved, Southwest Sees Opportunity in Kansas City
On Tuesday, Kansas City voters overwhelmingly approved a new single terminal at the airport. Though polls showed it could have been a…
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JetBlue to Vegas, Southwest Home (Trip Report)
It’s only been a couple months since I was last in Vegas, but I had some meetings to attend so it was…