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Southwest’s First Redeyes Arrive on Valentine’s Day
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It’s been talked about for eons, and now, it is actually happening. Southwest is going to start its first redeyes on February 13 with an arrival on Valentine’s Day in the first five markets. I…
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The Premium Boom Continues: The Race is On to Grow Short-Haul Opportunity
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As we discussed yesterday, in the long-haul market, premium upsell options have long been part of the game, but in the short-haul market, that has not been the case. It wasn’t all that long ago…
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The Premium Boom Continues: Airlines Learn From Long-Haul Success
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The announcements seem to be coming fast and furious. Coming out of the pandemic, people have shown a rapidly-increasing willigness to pay up for more comfort and a better experience on airplanes. This is nothing…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: The Crowd Strikes Back, A Pair of Good Earnings Reports
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CrowdStrike Brings Airlines to Their Knees You may not have heard of CrowdStrike previously, but today it becomes a househould name as the company pushed faulty Microsoft updates that derailed IT systems around the globe,…
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Alaska Continues to Crush It In Summer, But It Has Winter Problems
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Alaska announced its Q2 earnings yesterday, and the results were predictably very good. The airline beat estimates and came through with a 15.8 percent margin while running a solid operation. Sure, Q3 guidance was softer,…
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Route Overlap is a Big Problem for US ULCCs
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There is much to be written on what has happened to the ultra low-cost carriers in a post-pandemic world. We will probably see some not-so-great results when Frontier and Spirit report Q2 numbers soon. While…
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Airport Death Match: Is SFO or OAK Faster to San Francisco?
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As I mentioned in my trip report last week, I flew into SFO on a recent trip to the Bay Area but back out of Oakland. This wasn’t by design, but since I knew they…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: Delta’s Q2 Financials, Alaska’s Winter Plans
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Delta Releases Q2 Earnings, Announces New Partner Delta Air Lines ended June with a $2.3 billion profit on $16.7 billion gross revenue for the year’s second quarter, earning just a hair over $2 per share…
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Delta and Southwest Underwhelm on a Quick Bay Area Trip (Trip Report)
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My wife and I had to do a quick trip up to San Francisco for a Saturday night event. Fares were high, and schedule options were fewer than I’d expected. In the end, the best…
