Airlines
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Delta’s Empire-Building Continues With a WestJet Joint Venture
Delta continued its efforts to take over the world last week with the announcement of its anticipated joint venture with Canada’s WestJet.…
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3 Links I Love: Berlin’s Terrible Airport Problem, Alitalia Fiddles While Rome Burns, Skytrax Shenanigans
This week’s featured link: The ongoing saga of Berlin’s unfinished airport – CNN Travel I’ve been watching with disbelief as the normally-efficient…
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The Best Part About the New Emirates First Class Is Its Virtual Windows
I don’t know about you, but when I saw the new Emirates First Class product, I gasped. No, no. I’m not talking…
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American’s Rationale For Expanding Basic Economy to Mexico and the Caribbean Sounds Like Garbage, But It’s Probably Not
Though American and United both began rolling out Basic Economy fares around the same time, United rushed it and made mistakes. American,…
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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…