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Spirit CEO Bob Fornaro on the Benefits of Operational Improvement (Across the Aisle)
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Welcome back to the second half of my interview with Spirit President and CEO Bob Fornaro. (If you missed the first half, here it is.) When we left off, Bob was talking about how the…
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Spirit CEO Bob Fornaro on Price Competition and Doing What Spirit Does Best (Across the Aisle)
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Spirit’s current President, Bob Fornaro, has seen a lot in this industry. After stints at TWA and Northwest, he spent much of the 1990s at USAir. At the end of the decade, he joined AirTran…
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Thank You for Coming to Dorkfest 2017
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That was one great Dorkfest at LAX yesterday. Thank you to everyone who came out, ate In-N-Out burgers, and watched airplanes. It was definitely the best turnout we’ve ever had. This photo from David Parker…
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3 Links I Love: Dorkfest is Tomorrow, Slamming Boeing, The End of Avatar
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This week’s featured link: Featured Map for 22 September 2017: Cranky Flier’s Dorkfest 2017 – Great Circle Mapper The day is here! Tomorrow is Dorkfest, and that means it’s time to watch some airplanes. Come…
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Norwegian Connects Passengers To easyJet While Ryanair Backs Away
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I’ve written a bit about low cost carriers trying to find a way to juice revenues through connecting passengers. Ryanair has started selling connections on its own aircraft and has begun to sell tickets (not…
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Low and Slow From Moloka’i to Waimea On Mokulele (Trip Report)
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I’ve been back from Hawai’i for well over a month, but I’m only now getting around to writing up the rest of the trip. There’s just been too much else to talk about. When we…
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The Cranky Flier Interview: Southwest CRO Andrew Watterson Talks California
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Let’s start this week off with a podcast. I already wrote about Southwest’s declaration of war against Alaska and anyone else who tries to challenge the airline in California. Now you can hear about it…
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3 Links I Love: Qantas’s Position of Strength, Making Money Where No Airline Can, Pittsburgh Spends A Lot to Save a Little
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This week’s featured link: Qantas extends Emirates deal, switches from Dubai to Singapore as Sydney-London stopover – ABC Australia When Qantas was in real trouble on its international routes, it tied up with Emirates and…
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Random and Interesting Tidbits From American and United at the Boyd Conference
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I generally prefer to write posts around a single, cohesive topic, but the more I dug into my notes from the Boyd Conference (aka the International Aviation Forecast Summit), the more I realized I was…
