This week’s featured link
95 Years of Historic Firsts at CLE – AirportsHistory.org
One of my favorite website-finds of the year is back with a look at the surprisingly important history of Cleveland’s airport. Enjoy the distraction from the dumpster-fire that is everything else these days.
This week’s featured link
COVID-19 Outlook for air travel in the next 5 years – IATA
This presentation has all kinds of interesting tidbits around how IATA came to the conclusion that the industry will go back to normal in 3 to 5 years, lagging the rest of the economy. … Read the post
Sorry to disappoint you, but there’s no featured link this week. See, I didn’t think it was worth a full post to update you on what happened with Cranky Concierge’s massive $6,500 bill from EVA Air, so I figured I’d just drop it in here as an update. (Read … Read the post
Azul Signs Non-Binding Agreement to Acquire Selected Assets of Avianca Brasil – Azul
Things keep moving in Brazil, and Azul keeps growing. I believe Avianca Brasil had about 10 percent of the market, so this might vault Azul into being the biggest airline in the country.
CNBC published an article last week asking “Is there anything left to charge passengers for?” When I spoke with the author for the article, I explained my view: nearly all of what’s palatable to pull out of the fare has already been pulled out. That’s especially true for … Read the post
Niki is an airline that I thought was dead long ago. In fact, it has a tombstone of its own in my Airlines We Lost 2017 post. But after a number of twists and turns, Niki has found an unlikely savior. It’s not really Niki anymore; it’s a vehicle for … Read the post
In the last month, Ryanair has greatly tarnished its image as a reliable operator thanks to a pilot vacation-scheduling snafu. It’s been quite the black eye for an airline that has run such a consistently good operation for so long, and it’s even more frustrating, because so much of the … Read the post
Maybe it’s just that we’re used to having fees slapped on haphazardly here in the US, but I find Ryanair’s effort to effectively introduce a carry-on bag fee quite refreshing. Instead of following the legacy US airline path of “no carry-ons allowed” for Basic Economy or putting on a high … Read the post
This week’s featured link:
Ryanair to bid for Alitalia’s jets: O’Leary – FlightGlobal
On the surface, the idea that Ryanair would want both long and short haul aircraft to operate under the Alitalia brand is laughable. I assume this is just Ryanair playing mind games. My guess? Ryanair just wants … Read the post
Connections suck. Oh sure, as a traveler you don’t like them, but I’m looking at it from the other side. Airlines don’t like offering connections because they add operational complexity and cost. What the airlines eventually figure out, however, is that there’s enough commercial benefit to make the effort worthwhile. … Read the post
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Ryanair Unveils 2017/18 (Year 4) “Always Getting Better” Plan – Ryanair
This is starting to sound like a Soviet 5 year plan. Ryanair has its latest improvement plan out, and there are some goodies in here.
This year, Ryanair is going to begin selling connecting flights. … Read the post
Last month it was reported that Ryanair was hoping to finalize a deal that would allow it to feed passengers on to Norwegian long-haul flights between Europe and the rest of the world. This is an interesting agreement, but it isn’t Ryanair’s end game. The way Ryanair sees things, … Read the post
