United
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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…
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I’m Skeptical That United is Really Planning a Huge Growth Push at LAX
Bloomberg ran the headline and the news spread like wildfire. “United Airlines Said to Plan Los Angeles Push in Comeback Effort.” Could…
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Cranky on the Web: United’s Corporate Guarantee
United Bolsters Reliability Guarantee to Its Corporate Travel Customers – Skift I’ll admit it’s a stretch to include this here since my…
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United is Retiring Its 747s By the End of the Year, and I’m Glad
You can’t call yourself an airline dork if you don’t love the 747, and I can imagine that many of you shook…
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To Nobody’s Surprise, United Won’t Have to Pay Out On Its 2016 Performance Guarantee
In the summer of 2015, Delta was so proud of its operational performance that it put out a guarantee for corporate customers.…