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A December Tidal Wave of Changes
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There was a tsunami this week in Airlineville. The Eagle, Pualani, Ms Blue, the Taxi, and the Globe all flooded the market with December changes as they prepare for the holidays. As if that wasn’t…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Updates on COVID Traveler Safety
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Cranky Talk – Traveler Safety Part 2 On this week’s Cranky Talk… we’re doing another follow-up episode. No, it’s not that we’ve run out of ideas. We’re doing it because when it comes to COVID…
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3 Links I Love: Another COVID Study, Kudos to United, ANA Transforms Again
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This week’s featured link A large national outbreak of COVID-19 linked to air travel, Ireland, summer 2020 – EurosurveillanceYou’ve probably all heard about the Irish flight that was responsible for 59 cases of COVID, right?…
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Southwest’s New Cities Fit Neatly Into a Hub Strategy
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For an airline that hasn’t rolled out many new cities in some time, Southwest sure is active these days. While I was traveling last week, Southwest announced Savannah, Jackson (MS), and Colorado Springs. Then just…
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Wizz Looks to Conquer the World, or At Least Europe
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I used to think of Wizz as that Central/Eastern European airline with the goofy name and pink and purple airplanes. That image is… outdated, to say the least. Sure, it still has the name and…
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December Comes Into Focus and the Race for Leisure Travel Continues
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It seems like only yesterday that the residents of Airlineville were making Thanksgiving plans, but now Christmas is on their minds. The Eskimo, the Widget, and Pualani all began making their lists and checking them…
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Cranky on the Web: Airline Musical Chairs
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Airlines experiment with new routes in ‘game of musical chairs’ to stem billions in pandemic losses – CNBCNearly all US airlines are getting creative with their networks plans, and Leslie Josephs over at CNBC put…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest’s Strategy, Surrender the Dragon, Wizz Goes South
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This week’s featured link What’s Southwest’s Network Strategy? – Fly Data GuyA former Southwest network planner talks about how Southwest has moved toward connecting banks during the pandemic. Two for the road Cathay Pacific closes…
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Who the F*&@ Is EGO Airways?
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Get ready for something weird. The latest entry in the “Who the F*&@ is” series is actually an airline with an idea I don’t hate… and it’s Italian. This airline appears to be focused on…
