Airlines
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3 Links I Love: Spirit’s Pilots Get Slapped in Court, Bad Small City Subsidies, Baltia’s At It Again
This week’s featured link: Amid Cancelations & Delays, Court Orders Spirit Airlines Pilots To Halt Alleged Work Slowdown – Consumerist I thought…
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Delta’s CEO on the Middle East “Cheaters” (Across the Aisle)
Welcome back to the third, final, and probably most controversial installment in my Across the Aisle interview with Delta CEO Ed Bastian.…
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Delta’s CEO on Preventing Cockiness, Arriving On Time More, and Viral Videos (Across the Aisle)
Grab some coffee (or a beer) and get comfy. This is the longest chunk of my interview with Delta CEO Ed Bastian.…
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Delta’s CEO On The Perfect Airplane for Los Angeles, A Vision for the Pacific, and More (Across the Aisle)
Let’s call this “Delta week,” because you’re going to be getting a lot of CEO Ed Bastian here. When he was in…
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3 Links I Love: Allegiant Chooses Row 13 and an Orange Stripe, Lufthansa Group Ditches a Safety Rule, New Hawaiian Pualani
This week’s featured link: For the First Time, Allegiant Air Learns What It’s Like to Configure a New Airplane – Skift This…
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A Cranky Jackass Award for American’s 737 MAX Torture Chamber
Unlike many of you, I’ve been a fan of traditional airlines increasing density on airplanes over the years. It made sense to…
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Belatedly Pondering Alaska’s Dallas Plans
I’m well aware that it’s been about three weeks since Alaska announced its plans for serving Dallas/Love Field, but I’ve been thinking…
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Southwest’s Surprising Decision to Stop Overbooking
If you thought United’s 10-point plan to deal with the Dr Dao dragging incident was a bit much, just look at what…
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3 Links I Love: Let’s Buy Alitalia, American Jacks Up Pay, United Mourns JFK
This week’s featured link: Lufthansa says not interested in taking over Alitalia – Financial Express The worst airline ever continues to live…
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United Releases Its 10-Point Plan to Avoid Roughing Up Passengers
Soon after Dr David Dao was dragged off United Express flight 3411, the airline said it would be doing a full review…
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I Don’t Care if a Flight Attendant Almost Hit a Baby
I received several notes over the weekend asking about the incident on American where there was a flight attendant, a mom, a…
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WestJet Says It’s Starting an Ultra Low Cost Carrier
Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder north of the border, WestJet decided to step up. The airline that for years…