Airports
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United Wants to Grow at LAX, But There’s Not Much Room… For Anyone
There are two big trends in airlines these days. The first is to start an ill-conceived subsidiary with an annoying single-word name…
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China Airlines is Coming to Ontario, and I Don’t Hate This Plan
After announcing it was evaluating service between Taipei/Taoyuan and Ontario nearly a month ago, China Airlines made it official on Friday in…
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Thank You for Coming to Dorkfest 2017
That was one great Dorkfest at LAX yesterday. Thank you to everyone who came out, ate In-N-Out burgers, and watched airplanes. It…
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3 Links I Love: Qantas’s Position of Strength, Making Money Where No Airline Can, Pittsburgh Spends A Lot to Save a Little
This week’s featured link: Qantas extends Emirates deal, switches from Dubai to Singapore as Sydney-London stopover – ABC Australia When Qantas was…
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Long Beach Looks to Jack Up Fines, Take Away Slots From Late Night Offenders (That’s You, JetBlue)
I know not everyone here appreciates a good story from my hometown airport here in Long Beach, but there is a fight…
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3 Links I Love: Near Misses, Frontier Unhinged, Darwin Un-Etihaded, Norwegian Unprofitable
This week’s featured link: NTSB: Air Canada close-call at SFO was even worse than first reported – San Jose Mercury News Any…
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Delta’s LAX Move Has Been Good for Everyone’s On Time Performance
When Delta moved from Terminals 5 and 6 over to Terminals 2 and 3 in Los Angeles, one of the touted benefits…
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3 Links I Love: Airport Mismanagement in Virginia, A Strange Belief on Loyalty, No Golden Age of Travel
This week’s featured link: Records: Former Newport News airport execs spent big on travel – The Daily Press If you haven’t been…
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The Cranky Flier Interview: Those Who Made the Delta Move at LAX Happen
As you saw on the blog last week, I was invited to spend the night with Delta to chronicle the airline’s move…
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Up All Night With Delta During the Great LAX Terminal Shuffle
On Friday night, an army of orange and green vests gathered outside Delta’s makeshift command center sitting atop the surface parking lot…
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Cranky on the Web: The LAX Terminal Shuffle
FOX 11 News In Depth: Big changes coming to LAX – Fox 11 Los Angeles I actually spent all of last night…
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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…