Government Regulation
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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…
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DOT Makes a Big Deal About Its New and Minor (But Good) Rule Changes
Under Secretary Foxx, the Department of Transportation (DOT) hasn’t really been prone to take any action on anything airline-related, for the most…
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How Can Norwegian Fly Charters Between the US and Mexico? (Ask Cranky)
Back in July, Norwegian announced that it would start doing charter flying for Apple Vacations and Funjet Vacations this winter. That may…
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3 Links I Love: Middle East Fight Continues, Qatar Goes Italian, Lumexis Goodbye
This week’s featured link: The Middle Carrier Fight Isn’t Dead – Twitter If you read only BoardingArea blogs, you might think that…