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LAX Trying to Make Room for More Airlines
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Thanks to an ill-advised agreement with surrounding communities that limits the number of gates at LAX, operator LAWA is looking for ways to optimize the gates that already exist. First, let’s describe LAX for those…
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Go On Delta, Take the Money and Merge
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I don’t know about you, but all this merger talk and no action is starting to make my eyes glaze over. I want action! We had a couple of pieces of news today that I…
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Summer Schedule Buildup in Full Swing
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It’s that time of year when the airlines start announcing changes for their summer schedules. I won’t mention all of them, but I will mention the ones that seem notable. Horizon Air will operate daily…
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Virgin Makes Us Wait for Six More Days
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Virgin America has requested that the DOT give them an extension of six days until January 16 to file a response to the show cause order denying their right to fly. Bummer, that means we’ll…
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Why United Won the Right for More China Flights
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The long awaited decision about who would win this year’s rights to fly to China came down today. United was awarded the rights to fly daily between Washington/Dulles and Beijing beginning March 25. This is…
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Northwest Says Aloha to the DC-10
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DC-10 Retirement – 01-07-07 – 01 – 017 Originally uploaded by NWA Moments. Yesterday morning, Northwest flight 98 arrived in Minneapolis/St Paul from Honolulu. That flight marks the last scheduled DC-10 flight in the United…
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JetBlue Heads for San Francisco
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San Francisco Airport (SFO) leaked (pdf) the news yesterday that a “major U.S. air carrier” would announce service to the airport today, January 9. Of all the major US airlines, only two don’t fly there…
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How Important is Inflight Entertainment?
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Remember when inflight entertainment was just a projector showing movies at the front of the cabin? (If you’re on a United 747, that’s still the case, but I digress.) These days, inflight entertainment is much…
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Adam Air – Still Looking
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Remember that Adam Air plane crash in Indonesia last week? Well despite one false report, they unbelievably still haven’t found the plane’s remains yet. I can’t imagine that happening in the US or Europe today,…
