United
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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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Cranky on the Web: More United, Of Course
Story On United 3411 and Dr David Dao – Fox 11 News Somehow I missed this last week, but the reporter from…
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Cranky on the Web: A Whole Lot of United and Pretty Much Nothing Else
As far as media appearances go, this week was easily the busiest I’ve ever encountered. And of course, everyone was talking about…
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Don’t Blame Overbooking for This United Mess
Remember how bad last week was for Delta’s operation? If you do, you’re the only one. As of yesterday, Delta’s problems were…
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American and United Fight to See Who Can Lose More Money in Small Cities
With international markets looking weaker for a variety of reasons, the US legacy carriers have turned their focus inward to domestic markets…
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3 Links I Love: Boeing’s MoM Gets a Boost, JetBlue Feels Pain in Atlanta, More on the Port Authority Scandal
This week’s featured link: United Looks at Boeing’s ‘Paper Plane’ and Likes What It Sees – Bloomberg Bloomberg has been cranking out…
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The Airlines Will Never Get Boarding Right, But They Could If They Charged for Carry-Ons
Since the dawn of time (or something like that), airlines have struggled to find the best way to board their airplanes. I…
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3 Links I Love: Avianca Drama, Buffett on His Airline Purchases, United’s New Way of Serving Venezuela
This week’s featured link: United-Avianca Deal Becomes Target of Lawsuit by Kingsland – Bloomberg Avianca has been desperately looking for new investors,…
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United’s Big Summer Expansion Confirms Its Focus on Connecting Traffic
When Scott Kirby left American to take over as President of United, he noted that United needed to do a better job…
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American Tests Markets in Basic Economy Rollout While United Focuses on Fare Levels
A funny thing happened on Tuesday when both American and United officially filed their first Basic Economy fares in the market. (If…
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3 Links I Love: Another Defection From American to United, Frontier Trying to Fix Things, United’s New 777-300ER
This week’s featured link: Yet Another American Airlines Executive Leaves for United – Airways Word starting leaking out quickly on Wednesday. Andrew…
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The One Thing That Really Bothers Me About Basic Economy
With the imminent launch of Basic Economy on both United and American, we are on the cusp of a massive change that…