I know it’s usually 3 links, but this week it’s only 2 since they’re big ones.
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United Appoints New Senior Leaders
It’s taken United President Oscar Munoz a long time, but he’s finally started building out his senior management team at United. Andrew Levy, former President … Read the post
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Chief Operating Officer gives Delta operations update – Delta News Hub
And here’s what Delta said happened in its own unbelievable IT failure. Power problems, backups failed, blah, blah, blah. I had a lot of reporters ask me this week if I thought this would permanently … Read the post
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Southwest CEO: Router failure that grounded flights equated to ‘once-in-a-thousand-year flood’ – Dallas Morning News
Something tells me this is as close as we’re ever going to get to figuring out what really happened when Southwest’s systems melted down. I have a picture of Southwest’s IT … Read the post
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The Middle Carrier Fight Isn’t Dead – Twitter
If you read only BoardingArea blogs, you might think that the dispute over subsidies to Middle East carriers was over and the US carriers had lost. Post titles include terms such as “Total Loss” and “… Read the post
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WestJet’s London Expansion Has Been A Bumpy Flight – WestJet
I’ve been hearing people talk about WestJet’s 767 operational problems for awhile, but once more traditional outlets pick it up, it becomes bigger news. WestJet picked up some two dozen year old 767s from Qantas to … Read the post
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Airlines Race to Cuba, Overcoming Major Hurdles – Associated Press
Scott Mayerowitz headed down to Cuba with American Airlines to explore the problems of trying to start doing business in a country that might as well be from another planet. Considering the recent award of service … Read the post
Skift CMO Interviews: JetBlue’s Biggest Challenge Is to Keep Being Cool – Skift
There was a great interview in Skift this week with JetBlue Chief Marketing Officer Marty St George. If you’ve ever wondered what’s behind JetBlue’s marketing efforts, or the marketing effort of any “cool” company, then you’ll really … Read the post
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Delta Comfort+ now available as fare for flights to Asia and Latin America – Delta.com
Delta started selling Comfort+ as a separate cabin domestically earlier this month, but for international flying it remained simply an ancillary seat choice. That is changing… sort of… in some places. … Read the post
This week’s featured link(s):
Delta’s Comfort+ upgrades could turn into frequent flyer problem – Runway Girl Network
Delta to end sponsorship of Fox Theatre over Qatar Airways event with JLo – AJC@ATL Blog
Airline wars wound Seattle Pride Parade marchers – Seattle Times
I’m not sure why Delta keeps shooting … Read the post
It’s CEO week here on the links I love, so let’s get started.
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Airline Weekly podcast – Episode 38 (CEO Interview: Delta’s Bastian) – Airline Weekly
At the media day I missed, Airline Weekly sat down with new Delta CEO Ed Bastian to go over a … Read the post
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Delta Air Lines and CLEAR Partner to Improve Airport Experience – Delta News Hub
One of the initiatives that Delta rolled out at media day last week was a partnership with CLEAR. Delta has actually bought a stake in the company and is giving Diamond elites … Read the post
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Virgin Atlantic considers new low-cost Gatwick offshoot – Routes News
No new Virgin Atlantic sub-brand coming – Wandering Aramean
How do you counter a money-losing low cost carrier that seems hell-bent on growing like crazy? (That’s you, Norwegian.) Apparently you have to slash your costs if … Read the post
