Government Regulation
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How President Biden’s DOT and Congress Can Save the Airline Industry Without Spending Another Dime (Guest Post)
Happy inauguration day, everyone. Even though this year’s was clearly upstaged by… the existence of indoguration day, it remains one of the…
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DOT Allows American and JetBlue to Coordinate Schedules in a Landmark Deal
Note: I’m moving my Thursday post up to Wednesday this week, just because I really want to talk about this and don’t…
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Why Mexico Likely Hates the Idea of COVID Testing for International Travel to the US
While vaccines are the ultimate way to get travel moving again, there has been a whole lot of talk about just how…
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Money May Be Flowing, But This Government Stimulus Isn’t a Great Plan
Almost since the first government stimulus passed earlier this year, airlines have been begging for an extension. They knew without question fairly…
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Despite Mass Airline Layoffs Looming, the Feds Should Stop Funneling Money Into Airlines
We are now less than two months away from key CARES Act provisions expiring at the end of September, and that means…
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Death of the Airline Industry Delayed
For once, there is a delay in the airline industry that nearly everyone is happy about. After much haggling with the Department…
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Shut It Down
On Monday, I talked about the $50 billion airline stimulus that the government rolled out. One of the provisions in both the…
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The Government Stimulus is Done, Now We Wait to See the Results
Congress finally came to an agreement, and the President signed the bill. Now, the CARES Act is about to pump an unfathomable…
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When Airlines Refuse Refunds, There Will Be Consequences
It started with a schedule change policy. United — looking ahead and realizing that it was about to be bleeding cash when…
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How I Would Bail Out the Airlines
There’s been a whole lot of talk about bailout options for the airline industry as our economy grinds to a halt, and…
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DOT Takes a Stab at Defining “Unfair” and “Deceptive”
There’s an interesting rulemaking proposal rolling through the Department of Transportation (DOT) that caught my attention recently. DOT is looking to overhaul…
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Airlines Slash Service to China But Not Because of Coronavirus Fears
It’s time to PANIC. At least, that’s what appears to be happening with the coronavirus that has begun spreading around the world.…