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Hahn Air Issues the World’s First Ticket Using Blockchain… Does It Matter?
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Blockchain! I know, I know. A lot of people are excited about blockchain, but nobody really seems to know why. It’s supposed to revolutionize the world… and be awesome… and fix everything… and… I dunno,…
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IAG Looks to Consolidate Power At the Top
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Airline mergers within Europe have gone very differently from how they’ve proceeded in the US. As we all know, in Europe, the merged brands tend to keep their pre-merger identities in one form or another.…
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3 Links I Love: Grounding Southwest Planes, Delta Nabs Silver, Ontario at 3
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I will be rolling out a redesign of the blog in the next week or so. If you’d like to see preview, go here. If you go, please send your feedback to cf@crankyflier.com. This week’s…
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JetBlue’s Take on Basic Economy Brings More of the Same Plus a Blizzard of Options
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JetBlue’s long-awaited Basic Economy entry has now gone live in limited markets, and with it comes a big reorganization in how JetBlue approaches it fare families. Previously, in coach, JetBlue had three fare options. Blue…
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Flying United to Chicago for Media Day (Trip Report)
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After a few days in Washington, it was time to move on to Chicago for United’s Global Media Day. Even though I flew into Dulles for the weekend event, I had moved into the District…
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Corrected: Shining the Spotlight on October’s Operational Problem Children
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My apologies, but I somehow mixed up the A14 numbers for Southwest, Frontier, and United. This has been corrected, and I have updated the post to reflect the correct data. Ah, October. Fall has arrived,…
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Cranky on the Web: Should Southwest Buy Another Airline?
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If Southwest wanted to acquire another airline, which would it target? – Dallas Business JournalA research note suggesting that Southwest might consider buying another airline to get new airplanes since the 737 MAX remains grounded…
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3 Links I Love: Flight Operated by Bus, Alaska Crashes, Goodbye Old MSY
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This week’s featured link: The bus to the plane: On board Sun Country’s first Landline connection – TPGI love multi-modal, and here’s a trip report of the latest attempt to combine bus with plane. The…
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IAG Makes a Play For Madrid and Latin America With Air Europa Acquisition
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When Delta snatched LATAM from American’s arms, I said this: Delta has fundamentally re-drawn the map around the globe. If long-entrenched partners who were about to implement a joint venture can be broken up, then…
