Government Regulation
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The Back Door Way to Regulate Against Adding More Seats on Airplanes
I’m back from vacation, and I hope you enjoyed the 72 Hour series on the Alaska Milk Run while I was gone.…
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Foreign Airlines Should Be Able to Fly Within the US and Lose Money if They Want
There’s a fun-filled cycle of hate in the US airline industry that works in a specific way. First, something bad happens (legroom…
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In the Great 2017 Mexico City Slot Giveaway, Alaska, JetBlue, Southwest, and Volaris are the Victors
After the US and Mexico agreed to an open skies agreement for travel between the two countries, Delta and Aeromexico wasted no…
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International Travel Demand to the US Should Be an Enormous Concern
With so much uncertainty surrounding travel and visa policies for people coming to the US, demand has unsurprisingly started to drop. If…
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3 Links I Love: How Yesterday’s Trump Meeting Went, Island Air the Accordion, Eastern Crash Remains a Mystery
This week’s featured link: Subject: Pool report #1 airline meeting – Public Pool Wondering what happened in the Trump/Airline CEO meeting yesterday?…
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What the Airlines Want to Get Out of Donald Trump Today
Airline CEOs are gathering in Washington today to have a little sit down with the President of the US. This is one…
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Emirates Plays With Fire, Announces Newark to Athens Flight
You might think that with a new, anti-globalist administration in the US, foreign airlines might want to tiptoe carefully until they figure…
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Cranky on the Web: Basic Economy Covered Right, Pet Travel Podcast, The Mileage Game
United Airlines’ new Basic Economy fares: no carry-on, no seat assignment, no problem? – The Plain Dealer A good article out of…
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Alaska and Virgin America Are Cleared to Merge With Minor But Unhelpful Conditions
Can you believe it’s been more than 7 months since I last wrote about the Alaska/Virgin America merger? Way back at the…
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DOT Continues to Spit Fire at American and Qantas, So They’ve Walked Away
Before the Thanksgiving holiday, I wrote about how the Department of Transportation (DOT) had tentatively denied American and Qantas’s joint venture plans.…
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DOT Gets Strangely Feisty in the Administration’s Dying Days, Denies Qantas and American’s Joint Venture
With less than two month’s left until a new administration takes over here in the US, it looks like the Department of…
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3 Links I Love: Trump and Airlines, Burbank Goes Forward, Airplane Porn
This week’s featured link: Airlines to Trump: Block Rivals and Privatize Air Traffic Control – Bloomberg We frankly have no idea what…