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Virgin America Tries a New Tactic: Mexico
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It’s been awhile since we’ve heard about any new routes from Virgin America, so when I saw a press release saying that they were applying to fly from LA to Cabo, I felt compelled to…
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Lufthansa’s Subway-Style Boarding
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Anyone else out there seen Lufthansa’s Quick Boarding? I saw it on TravelPost’s blog and I’m not sure how I missed it before. It appears that at some gates in Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin/Tegel, Dusseldorf, Hanover,…
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TSA Tries Letting Travelers Decide What Type of Passenger They Are
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Readers of the TSA’s blog know that the agency has recently decided to roll out a program in Salt Lake City that has different lanes for different types of travelers. As you can see at…
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US Airways Devalues Dividend Miles
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There’s really nothing surprising in the announcement that US Airways has taken a couple steps to devalue its Dividend Miles program. I mean, every airline has been doing this, but US Airways has come up…
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Frontier Heads for the Hills, er, Mountains
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Frontier really is putting a lot of effort into Denver these days. Its new startup regional airline Lynx came out with its next eight cities, and every one will be served from Denver. Not surprising,…
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LAX Implements Continuous Descent Approach
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A nice side benefit of attending JetBlue’s press conference yesterday was that I had the opportunity to meet Ian Gregor, Communications Manager for the FAA’s Western-Pacific Region. We started talking shop, and soon enough I…
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JetBlue Expanding in Southern California, Coming to LAX
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As I briefly mentioned in yesterday’s post, JetBlue has decided to expand their presence in Southern California mostly starting May 21. This is welcome considering that after the initial burst of service at Long Beach…
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BoardingArea and the TSA Join the Blogosphere
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I’m heading out to LAX today to see the press conference from a “Major National Low-Cost Airline” expanding service in the LA area, so I’ll have more on that tomorrow. (Hint: It’s JetBlue) But today,…
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Things Get Worse for Alitalia, If You Can Believe It
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It’s been a month and a half since we last checked in on Alitalia, and I feel bad. I try not to neglect my favorite airline to hate, but it looks like that’s been the…
